[Leica] Never judge .. / Bruckner/Gould

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

try to find the George Szell, Concertgebeouw  Sibelius Sym.  2...


I have never heard better, and I've heard them all...


Steve

On Oct 7, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Art Peterson wrote:

>
> Douglas wrote:
>
> 'Talking of interpretations - has anyone else ever compared Jean  
> Sibelius
> 2nd Symphony (and the Karelia Suite for that matter)?
> 1 interpreted by Ashkenazy
> 2 interpreted by Leonard Bernstein
>
> 'I have never heard such a difference in interpretation in my life  
> - Lenny took all
> the emotion out of it, Ashkenazy brought out everything that  
> Sibelius stood for in
> Finland and Karelia. An amazingly moving interpretation!
> It has a similar 'ooomph' that a decent interpretation of Elgar's
> Nimrod or Barber's Adagio has - pure distilled emotion.'
>
> Try to find and listen to Arturo Toscanini's live 1940 broadcast  
> performance of it with the NBC Symphony (it was on a Naxos CD), so  
> intense, dedicated, and passionately emotional that you'd almost  
> expect to find blood on the studio floor after it was over!  As  
> with so many performances by Toscanini, no one else even comes  
> close.  The broadcast (and the Naxos CD) also closed with an  
> equally searing performance of 'Finlandia.'
>
> Art Peterson
>
>
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