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Re: In Praise of Authenticity - Rostropovich Conducts
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Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:30:36 -0400
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Karl Miller wrote:

>Reading your words reminded me of another moving performance of that
>work...Ozawa came on stage and announced to the audience that Shostakovich
>had died...then Rostropovich walked out on stage to conduct the scheduled
>work, the Shostakovich 5th Symphony.  I heard, and taped the performance
>via a delayed broadcast.  Even to this day, I find it very difficult to
>listen to that performance objectively.  In that performance, the final
>movement had such a stately elegance to it and the slow movement was
>almost transcendental.

I was at that concert. It was at Tanglewood. Karl has it right but I
recall one moment where the performance almost fell apart and train-wrecked.
In the finale, I think.

Roger Hecht

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