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In Reply to: RE: I think what Scott was saying. . . posted by Analog Scott on October 01, 2014 at 12:45:55
I don't know if this straw man you're setting up has anything to do with me. I have said that certain technical standards and expectations for classical music performance are much higher today due in part to modern recording technology.
But that doesn't mean I think that is entirely a bad thing. I'm actually a middle of the roader on the current situation, I think it has both advantages and drawbacks. I've discussed this issue with many over the years, and some feel so strongly about it that if they were posting here I might be taking your side and arguing against them. When you're a middle of the roader, you take heat from both extremes.
As for Khatia's performance of the Schumann concerto (a favorite piece of mine, I performed it with my college orchestra with a good friend and classmate as the soloist), I can see how it might provoke both positive and less than fully positive reactions. However, I don't think her occasional fluffed notes would be my main focus if I were sitting in the concert hall, though perhaps there are a few too many. I do think that if I listened to that same performance 10 times, I might begin to anticipate those particular fluffed notes, and they would become irritating. That is a big reason such things are usually edited out of commercial recordings.
As for her dress and her flopping and flying hair, it's all a matter of personal taste. Of course I could close my eyes, but to me they are affectations I could do without.
Follow Ups:
1. Where is the straw man here?
2. I was not thinking of any one person, but if I were to start naming names not sure yours would have come up.
"1. Where is the straw man here?"
LOL!
Dave
Do you have anything to contribute or are you just going to be a dick as usual?
Edits: 10/02/14
Well, I don't know a lot of people who think classical music performers of yesterday are generally superior to performers of today. As in all arts, with the passage of time only the best and most remarkable few from the past are remembered. The many ordinary ones are pretty much forgotten. Some have particular favorites who remain their favorites even long after they have passed away. But that doesn't mean being old is magically better.
True, there are those annoying people who insist that the only performance worth having of something is some unobtainable obscure historic recording that was released on CD only in Europe and/or Japan. One of those guys posted here for a long time. But they don't count.
I've argued that recording, radio and TV have all had a profound effect on music (and our culture generally), and that you can see (or hear) that in the way classical music is performed, and those changes are not always for the better. But it's a long way from that to saying the old artists are generally superior. In any age, many are mediocre, few are great.
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