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In Reply to: RE: I see where you're coming from, but still. . . posted by Tony Lauck on September 16, 2014 at 12:40:18
. . . but some of the recordings he made during this era are very fine indeed:
I also feel that there's a contradiction in your assertions that, on the one hand, you can judge whether there's extreme musical depth in a performance by the audience reaction (that's a particularly dangerous one!), and on the other hand, you have to be able to discern musical depth when in happens (presumably, regardless of how the rest of the audience reacts). Really, don't we all feel that we're able to discern extreme musical depth? ;-)
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I believe you misunderstood me in regard to audience reaction. What disgusted me the most was how the audience tolerated the performances that O. gave that were note perfect but failed to demonstrate musical depth. By their reaction the audiance demonstrated that they were more interested in the show and the raw notes, rather than the music. If the audiences had been discerning there wouldn't have been standing ovations, there wouldn't have been donations, and the musical dark age in Boston would have ended much sooner. My wife and I used to listen to BSO broadcasts with our windows open. Our lot was heavily forested and the birds often sang when we were playing classical music. We joked that the birds didn't sing when Ozawa was conducting.
Some of Ozawa's performances of 20th century music were OK, but I would have doubly passed on the Prokofiev. DG orchestral recordings were on my "don't buy" list because of the use of multiple microphones and the resulting flat sound stage. Their solo and chamber recordings had decent sound. For some reason the related Archiv label didn't have this problem. Unless on sale at a very cheap price, I have made it a practice not to buy recordings of music that I already have recordings of unless they are by first rate performers and issued on record labels with first rate sound.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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