In Reply to: Classics Today reviews a HIP Ravel Daphnis et Chloé posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 12, 2017 at 09:24:08:
that it would have superseded the audible differences between orchestras and interpreters from one performance to the next. Nothing. ...."I can remember MacKerras being interviewed on ABC Classic FM commenting that the VPO didn't now sound anything like it did under Mahler, even when it is playing Mahler.
Every Australian (State/Capital) orchestra I've heard and we have seven, have changed their sound, with differing conductors and over time, since the 1960s until now. I get to hear them on tour, and on ABC Classic FM, a lot.
Even the ACO sounds quite different now to what it did when it started out.
Mostly for the better, IMO.
And I will leave it at that.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/17/17
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- "There was nothing about orchestral performance in 1912 so different from, say, 1950, or 2000, - Timbo in Oz 22:07:09 05/17/17 (0)