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Hungarian conductor and violinist
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Book Review)
[…] over tempi for the Brahms Piano Concerto No.1. Murakami thought it would be a good idea to get this story recorded. Ozawa agreed, and thus began the series of conversations that eventually led to the book.The book’s contents include: Introduction: “My Afternoon with Seiji Ozawa” First Conversation: “Mostly on the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto” Interlude 1: “On Manic Record Collectors” Second Conversation: “Brahms at Carnegie Hall” Interlude 2: “The Relationship of Writing to Music” Third Conversation: “What Happened in the 1960s” Interlude 3: “Eugene Ormandy’s Baton” Fourth Conversation: “On the Music of Gustav Mahler” Interlude 4: “From Chicago Blues to Shin’ichi Mori” Fifth Conversation: “The Joys of Opera” / “In a Little Swiss Town” Sixth Conversation: “There’s No Single Way to Teach. You Make It Up as You Go Along.” The conversations run deep; for example, in ostensibly talking about the Beethoven concerto, Ozawa reveals some surprising details about Leonard Bernstein’s relationship to the orchestra, while Murakami displays a surprisingly keen ear for musical […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-24 13:25:23
Music Remembers Wartime Trauma
[…] as heroes of downtrodden everyday life; and praise humor as the last defense of the defenseless against those who wield arbitrary power. We get a bitter dose of modern Russian history here, painfully portrayed through the decades of the Soviet attempts to- literally- cover-up the almost unfathomable murderousness of Babi Yar. Mstislav Rostropovich, a close friend of the composer, smuggled out a copy of the score—without its title page—and passed it on to Eugene Ormandy, who premiered it with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1970; this was one of the most fortuitous moments in Shostakovich’s life. The Berlin Philharmonic performed it in 1983, just 6 years before the wall fell. If premieres of musical memorials, Eichler points out, offer a view into a nation reckoning with its past, then Vienna Philharmonic’s decision to shun the work speaks volumes. Eichler’s travels to and impressions of often-monstrous (physical) monuments constitute some of […]
2023-04-29 19:32:00
Dalia Stasevska at San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony HallPhoto by Lisa HirschUkranian-Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska made her debut at SFS this week, in a program of Sibelius standards with an opener of Anna Meredith's brief Nautilus. Davies had a big crowd last night, and it took me some time to realize that the reason was not the Sibelius or Stasevska herself, but the presence of violinist Joshua Bell on the program.I was not particularly enthused about the perpetually boyish Bell myself; at 55, throwing his head back, closing his eyes, and communing with his bow and violin are wearing thin. Of course, I could close my eyes myself, or focus on Stasevska and the orchestra during the Sibelius violin concerto, a great work and among my favorites.And mostly I did that! But here I have to make a confession: I imprinted strongly and early on the Ormandy/Oistrakh/Philly LP of the piece, which was issued with a magnificent […]
2023-04-03 09:42:00
Sibelius remastered or reimagined?
[…] a sampling rate of 2822.4 kHz and can contain 110 minutes of music without compression. The Philips/Sony license for SACD demands no additional royalty above the standard CD rate. So, other than the fixed cost of encoding software, an SACD disc should cost little or no more than a standard CD. An example of the constructive use of SACD is the Dutton Vocalion Epoch catalogue of SACD's which master celebrated archive recordings - such as Ormandy's Shostakovich 5 and 15, and Korngold's Die tote Stadt - to the SACD format. Decca are also hanging on in there with a SACD reissue of Solti's Ring, albeit at a scalping price.There is another reason why these remasters are very important if flawed, and that reason has been totally overlooked elsewhere. Whether we like it or not, Warner know a thing or two about making music commercial to reach a wider audience. Which is […]
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