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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: "This seems incredibly slow." All too common an error nowadays, not just in Mahler. nt posted by clarkjohnsen on April 6, 2005 at 18:43:33:
He always took a score to the concert and always noted each conductor's timing for the piece. He did this for decades. When put into a chart, the trend is obvious, and inexorable. Conductors have been taking music slower and slower as the years pass.Somehow "slow" and "profound" have become equivalent in the eyes of many conductors, to the detriment of music, I think.
Lenny went off the deep end toward the end of his life; I can only listen to the early stuff.
Meanwhile, Celibidace was sui generis, not part of the trend per se but on his own trip. That trip had some interesting scenery, but for myself I can't help thinking "Are we there yet?"
As one exasperated teacher once told me, "Stop making dinner out of every note!"
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Follow Ups
- Times critic Harold C. Schonberg documented this. - markrohr 05:16:01 04/07/05 (3)
- Celibidache - msk58 01:27:53 04/08/05 (1)
- He should talk! nt - clarkjohnsen 09:34:36 04/08/05 (0)
- Yes, although I'm sure we both can grant exceptions, esp. w/Celibidache. nt - clarkjohnsen 05:50:08 04/07/05 (0)
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