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You're making these judgements based on...

68.57.91.150

Posted by SE on April 11, 2007 at 04:23:42

In Reply to: Re: Not sure I understand... posted by Thornhill on April 10, 2007 at 14:05:49:

actually reading the score, or as a musician? THAT is very cool. I must admit, I do not have the experience to analyze a performance that way. What caught me with the Litton was the "seriousness" of purpose -- the music doesn't sound like a pastiche or a caricature of itself -- combined with the pure heft of the orchestra, and the recording quality that supports it. The technical nuances of the score-vs-performance weren't a factor. I'll be honest with you, unless it was an outright abomination, I'm not sure I care. I'll drag poor Furtwangler-in-Beethoven up again as an example. HIS take on Beethoven is so far "over the edge" that one can either consider it to be profound or slander -- it may be both. Interestingly, it's entertaining either way...although the composer may (if he could express it!;-) have had an opinion about the interpretive liberties.

Preferences aside, the Litton "just did it for me" (apparantly a lot of others too, FWIW). I never enjoyed Ives before, and this was a breakthrough. If the Litton recording turns more people towards the music, that is a good thing. I believe it has.

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