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In Reply to: RE: I've been reading Hogwood's biography of Handel recently posted by PAR on February 18, 2017 at 06:17:28
If HIPsters really believed in HIP, they wouldn't put up with the compromises we've discussed. Unfortunately, HIP has grown so powerful that it has acquired its own inertia (at least as far as the instrumental playing goes) and I'm sure that some conductors continue its stylistic mannerisms without thinking about it too much. In any case, it's obvious that they don't really care to enforce HIP tenets on other aspects of the production. Maybe you're right that these are just a compromises, but I still prefer to think that it's hypocrisy. ;-)
BTW, speaking of Ileana Cotrubas (and I did notice that Malgoire recording of Rinaldo), I once accompanied her teacher, Vera Rozsa, in concert when she came out to Northern California in the 70's. She was around 60 at that time and was still singing/performing herself (and very well too!) during the time she was teaching Cotrubas. Unfortunately for me, during one of our rehearsals in SF, I had parked my car in a limited-time-zone space, and the rehearsal went a bit longer than I'd expected. I came out to find that my car had been towed away. Not only did I have to pay the parking ticket but I had to get a ride to the impound lot where I had to pay the towing fee and the impound fee. Needless to say, I didn't make very much money on that concert - in fact, I may have had a net loss! Talk about the school of hard knocks! ;-)
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Maybe I am too kind. I am a nice person :-)
As for mannerisms, such criticisms can also be levelled at any suitably idiosyncratic conductor e.g. Stokie, Solti, Mengelberg, Bernstein. Did they compromise at all? You bet they did e.g Bernstein's DGG performance of West Side Story, Stokowski and Fantasia. Were they hypocrites?
I don't want to revive an HIP v.the rest argument and am only interested in a performance of whatever kind that represents the music in such a way as to find an emotional and/or intellectual response in me. So this month I have bought recordings that are both subject in period to HIP interest; Haydn and Handel. I bought Handel Op.6 ( Manze, HIP ) and Haydn London Symphonies ( Beecham, ever so not HIP). Good is good.
Thank you so much for your recollection of Contrubas' teacher Vera Rosza. All I can add in brotherhood is that I too picked up a parking ticket in California (Santa Barbara). It remains unpaid nearly 40 years later. Please don't tell :-).
OK, make that two.
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