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In Reply to: RE: Rachmaninov....Isle of the Dead posted by calloway on August 08, 2016 at 19:06:01
Back in 2009, Petrenko guest conducted the Boston Symphony. This was on the program along with some Stravinsky and Shostakovich. I was uninspired by the Rachmaninoff, but perhaps because it was wedged between two works that were unappealing to me.He also issued a surprisingly mundane recording of the four Rachmaninoff piano concertos with Simon Trpceski and was in the process of recording a truckload of Shostakovich, so I lost track of him.
His performance of the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 with his own crew, the Liverpool band, last year, didn't wow me, partly due to his tempo choices, but also because the orchestra itself was really not up to the task of this magnificent, but very challenging, symphony.
I know that Petrenko has recorded all of the Rachmaninoff symphonies, the Symphonic Dances and a few of the shorter orchestral pieces. But because of these past experiences with his performances, I've not been inclined to buy them despite the reviews on Amazon.
I'd be interested to hear the opinion of others who are familiar with his recordings. I have enough Rachmaninoff recordings to last a lifetime. I now only buy when something really outstanding comes along. He and the RLPO might be better served in the studio where they can clean up their act with multiple takes and some engineering prowess.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
For me, Rachmaninoff is the most overrated, overplayed of any composer in concert halls and radio today. A lot of the adulation of Rachmaninoff is because of the political environment it was written, not the quality of the music, as he was a refugee of, and defiant reactionary against, the modernist Bolshevik rebellion, which has now fortunately collapsed and disappeared.
Most of his music is mediocre. What melodies do turn up are often trite, and there is a lot of inconsequential filler. But then, I'm not an expert on Rachmaninoff's music.
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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You remember that - the article that discussed Rachmaninoff's mediocre, trite, and inconsequential music, and predicted that his music would quickly fall by the wayside. After all, it shared the same kind of vulgarity with Hollywood movie music. True connoisseurs would never lower their standards to accept music like Rachmaninoff's.
Are you still waiting for this to happen? ;-)
from several earlier posts by Amphissa. You don't think I could come up which such incisive prose, do you? I just substituted "Rachmaninoff" for "Shostakovich".
Of course, Amphissa is correct - those terms more properly apply to Shostakovitch! ;-)
"[Orchestras] react better when they have a man in front of them. . . A cute girl on a podium means that musicians think about other things."
-quoted in "The Guardian", Sept. 2, 2013
;-)
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