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Bill Karzas wrote:
>Beware ... of becoming so imprinted with these that any other
>performances will appear inferior because different from what is ingrained
>in you. Their subtleties may appear as perversities.
I think that is not truth, Bill. I had for many years my Beethoven's Ninth
Sym. with Dr. HvKarajan and BPO, and I ever had him as my favorite for
Beethoven Orchestral Music. Once a friend of mine gave me a recording of
this Symphony (9#) with Leopold Stokowski and OSL, and in the first twenty
seconds all what I was used to "believe" about Karajan, BPO or the 9th were
absolutely broken on the floor. Twenty seconds that changed all I ever
thought about Beethoven. Comparing these and other recordings, Stokovski
is a Gulliver among Lilliputians, instead many of them are good (like
HvK,too) but not great.
The same happened with other changes I did in these last 14 years of
mellomania. I changed Arrau's Beethoven (after 8 years) for Gilels's
(3 years) and for Kempff's and Schnabel's. I changed Neville Marriner's
Mozart's Piano Concerts for Geza Anda's (with CAMozarteum) and many others.
Regards,
Renato Vinicius
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