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In Reply to: Well, history is history, but I'm curious... posted by SE on April 16, 2021 at 04:50:18:
That's an awfully nice way of putting it! ;-)
What Beethoven actually SAID was, "the piano [i.e., the pianos of his time!] is and remains an inadequate instrument" - and this was not long before he died. This was a point made by the reviewer in the link in my OP. And in fact, that review, far from being buried in "politics", is well argued and well thought out, with substantial evidence (such as that Beethoven quote) brought to bear for the opinions expressed therein. Below, you say he doesn't know how to think. And yet your own criticisms of the review are mere complaints that his view of things doesn't line up with your own. All that shows is that you're a proponent of "right thinking" (i.e., thinking which reflects your own predispositions) only.
My view of things is that this fetish for listening to "original instruments" and vibratoless (or practically vibratoless) string playing is a kind of perverse enjoyment occasioned by the ennui resulting from not having listened very closely to modern-instrument performances (or, as I like to call them, "adequate-instrument performances"!), so that, with the subtleties of the performances being glossed over in the listening, they all begin to sound the same after awhile. And then these types of listeners NEED the gross differences heard in HIP performances to discern any difference at all! But that's just MY view, resulting from my "intuition and feelings" - LOL!
BTW, have any of you HIP fetishizers here actually heard the album that was under review (i.e., Faust, Melnikov et al do in the Beethoven Triple Concerto and the Ries arrangement of the Second Symphony for piano trio)?
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- "I have read that Beethoven wanted more from the keyboard instruments of his time" - Chris from Lafayette 11:42:16 04/16/21 (0)
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