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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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This conductor could become the next great.....
Japanese conductor Kentaro Kawase put forth what I thought was one of the best reads on Beethoven's Seventh Symphony..... With one of Japan's lesser known orchestras, the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra..... Nobody will mistake it for NHK, but it put forth a very solid performance as well......
The interpretation I believe was almost definitive in the First, Third, and Fourth Movements.... The Second was excellent, but the pace was a little "slow" for my liking. (Had he taken a brisker tempo in the Second Movement, it would have been *the* best B-7 I've ever experienced.) Aside from Karl Bohm, Kawase's final movement of the B-7 may be the best I've ever experienced, from purely and interpretive standpoint.
What Kawase does, that I think is truly special, is treat every passage of the work with a sense of "importance"...... Every line is articulated, and communicates a message..... (Some conductors try to get articulation, but end up losing the "communicative" character of the music. Lorin Maazel often did this.) Nothing is "glossed over"...... This is the quality that I thought made Wilhelm Furtwangler a great conductor.
There was also an interesting thing he did in the Third Movement..... He was laser focused on the timing of the timpani..... I cannot count the performances where this was "off" in otherwise-great performances of this work....
I generally have disdain for "histrionics" from a conductor..... It often disrupts the timing and "cohesiveness" of the music..... (Leonard Bernstein and Simon Rattle were a prime examples.) Kawase seems to have the opposite effect with this..... If I heard just the audio, I would have thought it was conducted by more of a "Fritz Reiner" type.....
There is also a performance of him doing the Brahms One (outer movements) on YouTube...... His final movement of that work was also superlative.
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Topic - Conductor Kentaro Kawase...... [yt] - Todd Krieger 18:36:25 08/08/20 (0)
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