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Tim Dickinson writes:
>Barbirolli's is another notorious alternative view - besides not taking the
>repeat, he ignores the "Allegro" indication of the opening tempo. Yet his
>is a devastatingly tragic view that should be included in any reasonable
>survey of Mahler sixths. I say this even though I'm not fully convinced by
>his approach. Our appreciation of music can sometimes be victimized by our
>dogmatism.
And then there is the live Scherchen recording. He does not take the
repeat and cuts the score by some twenty minutes, supposedly because he
felt the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra was not entirely up to the task
based on their rehearsals. I'm not sure I totally buy into that. He
takes everything that he does include very, very fast. Still, it is an
interesting interpretation, and once you put your ears to what he is doing,
is in its own way very satisfying. I must admit though, that I find
Scherchen very interesting. After years and years of listening to recorded
works of the 7th symphony as well as attending, sadly, just one concert
performance of the same work, It was Scherchen's VSO recording that lifted
the veil on this work for me. The way in which he twists and tugs at
the first movement is amazing, an effect that ultimately gives one the
impression of a loss of sense of time to the extent that everything seems
in retrospect to have happened simultaneously.
Thomas Heilman
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