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Andre Jute wrote:

On Sunday, April 14, 2013 12:17:05 AM UTC+1, Jay Beattie wrote:
On Apr 13, 1:12Â*pm, Andre Jute wrote:

On Saturday, April 13, 2013 4:45:21 PM UTC+1, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:12:25 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute



wrote:



On reflection, and after years of listening to it, I can't stand the "authentic music" movement. The music of these so-called original instruments is thin and unsatisfying. Worse, there is nothing "authentic" about these instruments or the music expect their obsolete tuning. The result is not "historically/musically accurate". Nobody knows what the music sounded like in Mozart's time, or in Bach's. (It is likely it was all played much slower than we do today, but that's about as much as we can guess without descending to wishful thinking.) But I just hate it for sounding scratchy.



I suspect that if we had a time machine, you would like the original

even less.



These were the originals. Most of my life I've gone constantly to concerts. My CD collection is just an outgrowth of the fifteen years I had to write something for my syndicated column once a week, and it would have been boring to repeat week after week, "I went to four concerts this week and they were all turned into crap by the egos of the conductors or idea fixe of venue's director of music [very often his own weird idea of "authenticity]." Instead, unless I had something enthusiastic to say about a live performance, I reviewed recorded music.



Sometimes original instruments are fun -- its like listening to Dylan

do "Tambourine Man" instead of the Byrds. I'm totally impressed by

those trumpeters who can play Brandenburg 2 on a coiled up tube with a

tiny bell. It's hard enough to play on a valved trumpet. I don't

particularly like the sound of a coiled up tube, but just hitting the

notes is right up there with placing in the TdF on a retro Raleigh

three-speed.



What I was talking about originally was not original instrument music

but rather the tendency in the 60s to romanticize everything . . .

well, at least some conductors who were very popular. They sucked out

the rhythmic drive and replaced it with "emotion." Everyone was

emoting -- then it swung the other way with all the historical

reenactment stuff.

-- Jay Beattie.

I doubt all that romanticism was so romantic when those composers were alive. Quite a few of them died of syphilis.

You've put your finger on why I like Karajan. He never betrayed the true history of how this music was played -- of course in evolved form! -- through the ages. That turbine drive came from somewhere; Karajan didn't invent it, he merely refined and perfected it.

I rate von Karajan even higher than that.
After WWII remained a group of musicians
who necessarily hung out together and left
an oeuvre unsurpassed to this day.
Listen to his Cosi Fan Tutti [1955].
His recordings of Beethoven's symphonies are definitive.

--
Michael Press