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In Reply to: RE: How is The Lark Ascending? I've always like Bean's. Nt posted by srl1 on September 28, 2016 at 19:28:01:
Hahn may be considered more flowing by some but she just isn't idiomatic. No nint in her playing of any relationship with English folk song or landscape. Still it's more palatable than her overly sentimentalised yet paradoxically unemotional Elgar on the same disc.
I find that as the Lark has become more internationalised it is now hardly treated as a rhapsody but more as a form of small violin concerto. Mistake.
Bean has the intent of the piece correct by evoking the George Meredith poem rather than treating it as a vehicle for virtuosity. He was a great ensemble player. When the Bean version was recorded in conjunction with the Boult traversal of the RVW Symphonies he was leader of the Philharmonia and not a brought in soloist.
Oh, before writing this I looked out my SACD copy of the Hahn and listened again to make sure that my negative view didn't require any revision.
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- RE: How is The Lark Ascending? I've always like Bean's. Nt - PAR 06:42:59 09/29/16 (4)
- I really like that Hugh Bean recording too, and yet. . . - Chris from Lafayette 10:43:01 09/29/16 (3)
- RE: I really like that Hugh Bean recording too, and yet. . . - srl1 03:21:14 09/30/16 (2)
- Streaming it on QOBUZ now and yes... - Ivan303 13:10:02 09/30/16 (1)
- RE: Streaming it on QOBUZ now and yes... - BubbaMike 18:40:18 10/02/16 (0)
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