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In the Thread: Nicolai Golovanov
Post Subject: Actually, I did pick up on the typo ("without" sentimentalism, etc)...Posted by Gregm on: 5/4/2006
...but thanks anyhow. I remember listening to a performance by Mengelberg (during war II -- '41?/ German orch) which struck me as being very intense & powerful -- BUT that's from memory, so it may just be that I was differently impressionable at the time.
What I would like is: Russians playing the 6th, boldly + with passion but without the extra emotionality (say, a la Mravinski), as if there's no tomorrow. Like in King Lear: "the lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, stands still in esperance, lives not in fear". The first part of the quote may be Tchaikovski; the second part is for the players.
A rather obscure way of expressing myself, no 
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