In Reply to: RE: I am inclined to go for the Suzuki!! posted by josh358 on March 10, 2012 at 18:37:39:
Bullshit, and ignorant BOF _ I hate change - BS, at that.
I have been singing this pre-romantic music - at cathedral choir level since I was nine - 53 years ago.
IMO, HIP has been the best thing that has happened to classical music.
Performers have taken it on en-masse,
because it works.
But you can't? Who's the informed thinker here? NOT you.
The market has accepted it, too.
Klemperer's Bach is ponderous, slow, and excessively reverential - to the IDEA of BAAAAACCCHHHH!
His music, like Haydn's and Mozart's is vigorous, lithe, human, randy, loving, romantic, hungry, reverent to God and to being here, but not SLOW and HEAVY it is richly dynamic*, immensely complex*, funny, basic, rich and smelly. like life is.
* As another poster pointed out only Wagner and only occasionally, get's close on either front.
When HIP came along, I felt ROBBED as a performer by previous practice. And that's with Neville, and Argo, Loiseau Lyre, and Telefunken already happening in the early 1960s.
Are you sure you're into classical music for the challenge, which it should constantly be?
Take off the tie, and the suit, and BOOGIE, Josh!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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Follow Ups
- before misapplied historical performance practices robbed the music of feeling, drama, and musicality !!!!!! - Timbo in Oz 03:55:28 03/14/12 (1)
- RE: before misapplied historical performance practices robbed the music of feeling, drama, and musicality !!!!!! - josh358 20:03:38 03/21/12 (0)