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My bad - I tried to word that last subject line carefully - didn't mean you or Rick were being arrogant

Posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 8, 2017 at 16:36:48:
The arrogance would lie in assuming that one can even present "Dvorak's Dvorak" or (pace Landowska) "Bach's Bach" through one's own interpretation. There's too much in the music that's vague and unspecified. (BTW, the reason I keep mentioning the New World Symphony is because it has the largest number and widest range of recorded interpretations of any of the nine Dvorak symphonies. And I suspect most of these interpretations would be thought of by their originators as honoring what the composer would have liked to hear. Sure, we'll always have conductors such as Mengelberg and Stokowski whose first priority seems to have been to put their own imprint on the music, but I think most conductors see themselves more as conduits to the composer's intentions - even though that's actually unrealizable in an absolute sense.)

And I do agree with Rick that if one is not interested in accumulating a large number of recordings of various warhorses, then it's fine to have a decent recording like the Kertesz/LSO set as one's only version. My OP was more concerned with reviewers (who, one would presume, SHOULD have a certain breadth of knowledge about the recorded versions of what they're reviewing) projecting their own "thrill of discovery" onto a given recorded interpretation. It's not unlike one's "imprint version" of a given work, which always seems to have a greater chance of impressing any given listener more powerfully, just because first impressions are often so strong.