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2024-04-06 16:39:23
Tapped as Chicago Symphony music director, Klaus Mäkelä makes an exhilarating stand with Shostakovich
Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the future music director of the […]
2024-04-05 18:13:32
Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the future music director of the […]
2024-04-03 20:18:20
28-year-old conductor Klaus Mäkelä will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2024-04-03 14:17:00
Does it have integrity and relevance?
Shortly after it was released I bought the young Finn Klaus Mäkelä's new complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies recorded for Decca. Sibelius symphonies are very well represented in my large CD collection, in fact I have more Sibelius symphony cycles than for any other composer. Yet I have returned to Mäkelä's interpretations a surprising number of times. No, they will not replace the accounts of Sanderling, Colin Davis, Barbirolli, and others. But they are not worse or better: because subjective dualist judgements of better or worse, like or dislike, good and bad, definitive or otherwise, etc etc no longer mean anything to me. There is no concrete reality in a music performance, only what we individually perceive as reality. A performance is an endless flow of constantly changing conditions. The score is not the performance, and the performance is not the score. Between score and performance lie an infinite number of overlapping […]
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