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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: Someone's in the thrall of Levine posted by markrohr on February 11, 2007 at 14:30:32:
(Besides the French diction of one of the soloists.)clark
PS Boston's most musical music critic, Lloyd Schwartz, had this to say a few days ago:
James Levine was back in front of the BSO after his Christmas break, and as good as at least one of the guest conductors was (Sir Colin Davis), Levine’s conducting was more exciting, and so was his program: the last of his revelatory Beethoven/Schoenberg pairings... Symphony Hall reverberated with the powerful outbursts, and Levine captured Beethoven’s unsettling rhythmic juxtaposition of string section against string section.
Symphony No. 8 was genial, witty (a startling Haydnesque whisper ends the first movement), alternating delicate scampering and raucous vigor. Despite a few rough edges, it was one of the most engaging renditions I’ve heard of this least-performed of Beethoven’s nine symphonies.
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Follow Ups
- "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - clarkjohnsen 11:34:10 02/12/07 (6)
- Re: "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - Brian Cheney 15:36:35 02/12/07 (2)
- "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - clarkjohnsen 10:35:09 02/13/07 (1)
- Re: "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - Brian Cheney 18:02:30 02/13/07 (0)
- "So: You heard the Berlioz." Nope, didn't say that. - markrohr 12:12:19 02/12/07 (2)
- "I find him utterly ordinary." Unlike Dyer, Schwartz, Gantz, Medrick, Katz, Eichler and every other Boston critic. - clarkjohnsen 12:30:18 02/12/07 (1)
- I don't make judgments, musical or otherwise - markrohr 04:19:22 02/13/07 (0)
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