Schwartzo in a tour de force concerning Szell crtiques, glowingly, Szell's
way of playing, and landing, a Forelle:
>The "Cello" Quintet sounds like Schubert communing with the deepest part
>of himself, writing for art alone, while the "Trout" feels more "sociable."
Right on! The Trout is Schubert and his golden-youth friends desporting
themselves, of a lazy, foehny, day up there in the hills of the Vienna
Woods. When I was a boy, there still used to be trout in the brooks there,
and after hiking a while you settled in a bosky spot on the bank of one of
these in order to engage in the languid sport of watching the fish maneuver
for their food while you munched on yours. The Forelle's music (though
dating back fArther than even my time) is in that sense: rustic, natural,
pretty. It's to the credit to Schubert's generation of Viennese to have
taken it to its heart as art. As to Schwartzo's (deserved) paean to Szell,
or at least a stretch of it, had my computer gone independent (yep, now and
then it does so) and substituted the word Celibidache for Szell--why I have
would have read on, without missing a blink.Szell, like Celi, was simply a
superb non-German conductor, but, for all of that, a truly profound German
conductor.
Denis Fodor Internet:[log in to unmask]
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