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In Reply to: Celi doesn't rate amongst the connoisures? posted by kuma on January 7, 2016 at 21:48:11:
There are some people who are stuck on the notion that "Beethoven is the greatest composer" and many of them are also stuck on, "As far as conductors go, there's Toscanini, and then there's all the rest."
If you are going to measure greatness by "clonality of Toscanini," then Celi is a non-starter, I guess.
But for me, Celi's mono, East German, German Requiem is the ONLY performance that demonstrates Brahms' conscious debt to Schutz, and Celi's B-Minor Mass is the only performance I know that feels like an actual Mass and not just a reverent performance of old music.
Which to me shows the difference between real education, and mere acculturation.
Some people got spoon-fed received wisdom in college (or conservatory), and resolved immediately thereafter to stop questioning, inquiring, and learning...
IMANO.
John
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Follow Ups
- One reason suffices: He's not Toscanini... - John Marks 06:30:14 01/08/16 (2)
- Now, now, at least Toscanini gave us history's best La Mer. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 16:17:06 01/10/16 (0)
- Doh! - kuma 13:01:31 01/08/16 (0)
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