John Smyth wrote: >Ironically I find Pletnev and Volodos--superhuman technique aside--to >be pretty boring in the end. Absolutely. Pletnev's Pathetique was, IMHO, one of the most overrated recordings I've evern been ersuaded to buy, >I also think that Gergiev is a fraud: a Sinopoli with a bad beard and >half the daring imagination. His Rite of Spring was perverse in a bad >way. Oh, wasn't it just? Glad to find someone else of like mind, after being somewhat impressed initially, I have come to believe that he is all style (1980s Miami Vice "style" at that) and no substance. >In any case, I'm glad you have a soft spot for the Russian sound, but >doesn't the canon bother you--just a little-- in Tchaikovsky's 1812? And. perversely, the only performance of *THAT* I know to make it sound like music, is Mengelberg's 1940... Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html