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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

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You accused old recordings of lacking any bass, calling them 'thinny' in sound, while even Jorge can tell you that Mahler 4 by Mengelberg, a seriously bad recording has lots of bass, so this post of yours was only to attract reactions and you got them. By telling about a Brahms and Beethoven concert you visited with only four double basses you clearly made a statement preferring modern and overproduced recordings and that's why I came with the Mengelberg/Bach/Beethoven post you refused to react to, considering the idea about conductors having heart and soul for the music, interpreting every single note trying to them alive and of course, by saying 'You're all Wrong!!' doesn't help the case in now saying it was only to talk about hearing as much performances/recordings as possible, including the soulless and lifeless recent recordings. (Of course is Gergiev an exception to my plea for older recordings, since I'm a great admirer of this conductor.)

Furthermore, you posted a rather hostile post not wanting to discuss the tempo directions Beethoven gave in the metronome markings. You focus on 'Mondschein', but I heard a late sonata being played at the 'correct' tempo as you call it and the pianist didn't have hands enough and slowed down the tempo and suddenly it became music.

I found no reply to this post, below and I still didn't get a reply about it and now you're saying I'm the one who's getting angry and that's a mistake because I'm not angry, but you seem to listen only to yourself and don't go into debate about the actual use of tempi, but you come back and back again in talking about Perahia playing 'Mondschein' fast and Zander playing the 4 notes and the triplet. I don't have any objections against Zander, but I don't want his recordings either, but I felt attacked by this initial post of yours and I tried to give a reasoned explanation quoting by using the enormously exaggerated performance of Mengelberg, which with the 'true' Bachians is still a curse in the church.

I don't attack you for liking Zander, I only attack Zander, but you make me and others look like a fool because we listen to sonically imperfect ancient mono recordings. First of all, live orchestral music is not stereo and mono usually gives the most realistic sound, just like the original early mono recordings of Elvis, which were later on made into 'stereo' or 'pseudo-stereo'.

Your focus was not the same as Dr. T was telling and I really don't understand why you agree with it, because he hits the core and says different things in only one paragraph.

Best regards,

Rob


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