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In the Thread: Spivakov, NPoR Orchestra and Olga Kern
Post Subject: The Purchase disaster.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/24/2007
Well, to close the saga I need to inform that my visit of the NPoR concert in Purchase was a complete waste of time. I understand that NPoR rides across US and cashing in their sound among mostly ignorant US consumers. Sure, as in any professional activity this product – is juts commodity but… I, happens to be, am at the different side of fence…
So, in Purchase Performing Center I was sitting first movement at “interesting” location what I was able to see the pianist and the conductor very well. Spivakov during the Shostakovich’s Overture made some very cynic and very unpleasant gestures and frankly speaking I would prefer do not see it. The Orchestra sounded well though…
The Rachmaninoff’ Rhapsodyes were disastrous or even more then Rhapsodyes. I hardly understood what the hell they were doing. The Olga Kern’s piano was out of tune – I have no idea why they decided to proceed with the performance. Kern clearly was distracted with what was doing on and demonstrated the bitchiest play I even heard. It was absolutely without any feelings. It was more like a scream “let this it be finished”….
For the second part I went up for other sit but the Tchaikovsky Fifth was very poor. The all string sections were wonderful great played together but everything else was like from a different orchestra. Evan the strings: with this near flawless performance I really did not like what Spivakov did with them: this articulation was very primitive and the expressions were very crude and not interesting. The NPoR still had that very nice soft and rich tone but it sonic capacities was not used at all and the orchestra sounded as it was a first rehearsal with an awful guest conductor. I felt that the leads of the strings sections made up their people to play well but it was all that was good in Purchase…Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site