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Deryk Barker wrote:
>Well the Concertgebouw (hall and orchestra) certainly have the track
>record, but I think that, with the zeal of the newly-converted, you are
>overestimating Chailly's stature as a Mahlerian which, IMHO, is good but
>not great.
I think that a work such as the M5 is so impressive in itself that any
conductor and orchestra who can give a professional rendition of it will
give listeners a very satisfying experience. I have no doubt that MTT and
the San Franciscans will accomplish at least that much in their European
tour. Beyond that, whether a given listener considers a given performance
an absolutely transcendent, super-dooper experience or not is a very
personal matter, depending on whether this listener resonates with this or
that aspect of the performance. I'm sure that we all have had experiences
of raving on and on about a particular concert performance or recording and
having someone else cut us down with, "You think that was so great? It
stunk! You should have heard so-and-so back in 1962!"
To me, what makes music have the effects on us that it does is such a
mystery that we should not try to make such absolute statements, but just
be thankful that people can be deeply moved by whatever moves them.
Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]
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