In Reply to: opinions on Living Stereo Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra SACD posted by Rob M on December 25, 2004 at 19:51:16:
I have not heard the SACD, but I do know something about the music, and for my money, all performances that do not take into account Georg Solti's manuscript sleuthing as evidenced on his early-1980s digital effort in Chicago are going to come up short musically. He found tempo and performance direction errors in the printed score.But just to prove that there is always someone who willfully wants to be perverse, I saw a recording last year (did not buy it) the Unique Selling Proposition of was that they left off the coda, which was composed and tacked on after the Boston Symphony debut. Like, duuh. Why not allow poor Mr. Bartok to have his final thoughts on the work portrayed?
Later,
JM
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Follow Ups
- Grain of salt, textually - John Marks 15:00:51 12/26/04 (9)
- Bartok and Reiner - Skeptic 15:54:45 12/26/04 (8)
- I really doubt your assertions - John Marks 07:54:47 12/28/04 (5)
- Re: I really doubt your assertions - Skeptic 07:12:04 12/29/04 (4)
- "..it becomes a quite different piece." - John Marks 08:37:12 12/29/04 (3)
- That's funny! - kavakidd 10:24:06 12/29/04 (0)
- Re: "..it becomes a quite different piece." - Skeptic 10:17:21 12/29/04 (0)
- Excellent post - Metralla 10:06:17 12/29/04 (0)
- Re: Bartok and Reiner - Roy 08:49:18 12/27/04 (1)
- Re: Bartok and Reiner - Skeptic 07:14:09 12/29/04 (0)