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Don replies graciously to my irritable remark:
>>I find such a performance view perfectly valid and, indeed, a welcome
>>alternative to the 'butcher's boy, warbling his native woodnotes wild"
>>picture of the composer.
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>I wasn't trying to suggest that Dvorak should be performed as if he was
>carving up beef in the woods. However, I do much prefer Dvorak's music to
>be presented with 'exuberance, edge, and guts'. Most important, I'd like
>the performance to be evocative of a love of nature, not of a sleek
>high-rise office building.
Well, I've heard very sophisticated performances that I enjoy very much,
although I would also say I invariably found them rhythmically exciting
as well. I don't think there's a mutually exclusive principle here.
>Has Steve or anyone else heard the Pacifica Quartet's recording on Cedille
>of Dvorak's string chamber music? Their performances don't sit well with
>me compared to the Prague Quartet's cycle of the Dvorak String Quartets
>on DG.
Don't know the Pacifica, but I have heard some of the Prague. I liked what
I heard.
Steve Schwartz
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