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In the Thread: About Timbre and Audio.
Post Subject: The chicken has been roastedPosted by rowuk on: 12/10/2019
In the case of brass players - including Mr. Schlueter, I would maintain that many simply have no interest in historic context for Mahler or Bruckner - or older music. Case and point: a Giovanni Gabrieli recording by the Met brass section. Sure, it is “glorious” playing but completely ignores what we have learned in the last 40 years. It offers nothing over a Gabrielli recording by the Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland brass sections from the 1960s. They only played the notes. That is not a function of the media, it is a function of the modern musician not investing in their musical growth.
In some cases, growth is even blocked by the orchestra. The last trumpet auditions for the New York Philharmonic specified that the audition was to be played only on specific instruments made by the Yamaha or Bach companies. Other manufacturers were simply not allowed. This is a restriction in dynamics and color not found in Europe for instance.
Celibidache is an idiot. He even refused to allow his solo trombonist to play in Munich - because she was not a man. She won the audition from behind a curtain - only the playing was evaluated. I would maintain that he fed his own ego and did not care if the music was comprimised. We are lucky that he had at least a couple of lucid moments. Paavo Jäärvi is another instance with this type of behaviour.
I would think that the jet set conductor flying all over the world is as much of a problem. They do not take the time to develop their own, and the orchestras voice. Collateral damage to the music is programmed. A possible light at the end of the tunnel is Currentzis with his MusicaAeterna. He is still young, but he has a voice and is investing in building his orchestras voice. I heard a very spectacular Verdi Requiem and Mahler 2 conducted by him. He is still young but investing in something very worthwhile in my opinion.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site