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Interesting article in the NY Times today. Claudio Abbado and Helene Grimaud have parted ways due to a dispute over a recording for DG of the Mozart piano concerto no. 23. He wanted her to use Mozart's own cadenza, she wanted to use Busoni's.
As the article mentions, Horowitz used the Busoni cadenza in his outstanding recording of no. 23 with Giulini, also for DG. In an interview where he discusses this recording, Horowitz mentions that Mozart wrote his cadenza for a student, and though I forget his exact words, essentially concludes that he didn't feel obliged to use it.
I'm with Ms. Grimaud on this one. Mozart was a brilliant improviser and surely wouldn't have confined himself to a single prepared cadenza, even if he wrote it himself. At minimum, she should be free to choose her cadenza, or even better write her own.
Follow Ups:
New release next week on DG: Helene Grimaud plays Mozart's Piano Concertos 19 and 23 with the Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Still a babe.
According to the NYT article, this DG release is of the earlier performances of these concertos--the ones that she thought went really well--instead of the ones she later made with Abbado in Lucerne, where she and Abbado had "artistic differences". (Evidently DG saw fit to record those earlier performances for possible release.)
Russell
So it was more like lucky for her that there was recent radio recording available that DG could purchase.
Why doesn't Abbado just give a brief spoken introduction saying that while he disagrees with the soloist...
Oh wait, that's been done!
-Bob
And anyway, what's Abbado doing butting in to tell her which cadenza to play? That should be the pianist's prerogative in any case!
Just kidding. Totally agree.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- Thomas Tusser
. . . if it were a violinist choosing a cadenza too.
Sure would, Especially if she's cute.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- Thomas Tusser
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
Let the soloist choose the cadenza.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- Thomas Tusser
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There has to be more to the story than this, if indeed the project is being terminated.
I don't think there is any more to the story.
Abbado is hardly the first conductor to tell a soloists how they should play their part.
To give you an extreme, George Szell was known to sit down at a piano and demonstrate to soloists how he thought certain passages should be played.
Then there is the famous Gould/Bernstein concert -- it was in pretty bad to announce prior to the concert that he thought his soloists was wrong.
There are conductors that are that way, yes. However, Claudio Abbado is very well known as a "musician's conductor." He does not operate that way. There has to be something more to the story, or the story itself is false. Haven't read the rest of this thread yet, but judging from some of the subject lines, it seems the project is still going.
Now I have read the other posts - if indeed there were "artistic differences," and the project was given up, I can assure you that they went much farther than the mere choice of a cadenza.
All this drama over some Mozart ??? There's no problem,the project was scrapped right??? They now have the time to consider a "worthwhile" project. (He,he,he,he....)
Edits: 10/31/11
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