Wes Crone ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

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>>After all, there are very learned people who find Brahms deficient, but
>>it probably doesn't affect most of them in their ability to enjoy Brahms.
>
>I would like to know what you mean by deficient.  Certainly you do not
>mean that these "learned" people find any technical deficiencies in
>Brahms.

   "He was always the musician of conscience, he had too much
    conscience,as a fact - which accoutns for his many tedious
    stretches of 'joiner' confidently put forward as development
    passages."
       Neville Cardus

   "Benjamin Britten claims that he plays through 'the whole of
    Brahms' at intervals to see whther Brahms is reallly as bad
    as he thought and ends by discovering that he is actually
    much worse."
       Colin Wilson (does anyone know if the Britten quote is
    actually genuine?)

Deryk Barker
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