John Smythe on Dutoit:
>>Very surprised that I was not as delighted with Dutoit's Debussy.
>>Too cool for my taste. Jarvi and Abbado and Rattle do much better w/
>>Prokofiev and Bartok. ...
I wrote:
>Jarvi (senior?) and Debussy? Sound like an impossible combination,
>especially after I heard Jarvi conduct VW.
I now realize that John didn't say anything about Jaarvi and Debussy.
Prokofiev and (especially) Bartok are composers who sounds good (at least
live) under Jaarvi's baton.
Mikael
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