In Reply to: RE: Do you audition classical recordings blind? posted by Todd Krieger on November 17, 2014 at 09:00:44:
Technical standards in classical music performance are sky high today in many parts of the world. Japan, (South) Korea, Finland and Estonia, for example, are right up there with the US and Western Europe. I don't think China will be far behind.But looking back, I don't think you can hold impoverished, war-torn post W.W. II Europe, with many of its greatest musicians still living in exile, to quite the same standard. Alfred Brendel told a funny story about how as an unknown young pianist in Vienna, he was hired to record the Prokofiev 5th piano concerto, a piece neither he nor the orchestra knew. Well, he got through it well enough to help his budding career, and you can still buy it and listen to it, but ...
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- That doesn't surprise me. - rbolaw 09:34:04 11/17/14 (0)