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Last night I attended a San Francisco Symphony concert, where Kurt Masur led the orchestra in performances of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and a complete performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", with a narrator taking several roles.
I hadn't seen Masur in the flesh since he was just an energetic kid in his 60's - he is now over 80, and one wonders how much time he has left with us. However, he led beautiful performances of these works, and although there was an imperfection here or there, or a slightly slow tempo, it was an evening of enchanting and joyous Mendelssohn led by a master.
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He is definitely very well respected among musicians. I have never had the opportunity to work with him myself, but have seen him conduct. Made lots of great recordings, too, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
IMO, Kurt Masur was one of the ten greatest Beethoven conductors this past century..........
Although I don't know that many of Masur's recordings of Beethoven, I have his version of the 5th and find the tempo of the first movement too slow for my taste. It lacks energy to me.
It is just one recording. Maybe he made better ones but I'm not interested in buying other CDs. I do like him well enough as a conductor, however. I saw him on PBS and found him interesting.
Todd, I respectfully disagree. I find a lot of his recordings well performed but dull. Maybe he's better in concert (like Dohnanyi). I do like his first recording of Fidelio (on Eurodisc).
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