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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: they trump them? posted by docw on February 20, 2007 at 07:18:45:
but it's true. Listen, especially, to the inner voices (second violins and violas) in the Vanska recordings and how incredibly precise they are. If there is a passage with repeated sixteenth notes, you can hear every note! Szell never bothered with this kind of precision.Just as important is the balance--the old Szell/Cleveland recordings were overbalanced in the first violins IMO--the strings in general tended to cover the winds, except when Szell (or the recording engineer) highlighted a solo. But with the Vanska/Minnesota recordings, you can hear everything perfectly--without the need for artificial "highlighting". So in that respect, it's a kind of large-scale "chamber music", with no one section covering up the others, and all sections deferring to the others.
I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the interpretations, which I still think are rather "faceless".
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Follow Ups
- Yeah, hard to believe... - C.B. 10:24:54 02/20/07 (3)
- Thanks for your explanation - docw 13:39:20 02/20/07 (2)
- Well, I didn't say that Szell and the Cleveland weren't precise... - C.B. 04:21:52 02/21/07 (1)
- yes, I agree, but with your ability and knowledge, thought... - docw 10:19:02 02/21/07 (0)
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