Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas wrote: 'Talking of interpretations - has anyone else ever compared Jean Sibelius 2nd Symphony (and the Karelia Suite for that matter)? 1 interpreted by Ashkenazy 2 interpreted by Leonard Bernstein 'I have never heard such a difference in interpretation in my life - Lenny took all the emotion out of it, Ashkenazy brought out everything that Sibelius stood for in Finland and Karelia. An amazingly moving interpretation! It has a similar 'ooomph' that a decent interpretation of Elgar's Nimrod or Barber's Adagio has - pure distilled emotion.' Try to find and listen to Arturo Toscanini's live 1940 broadcast performance of it with the NBC Symphony (it was on a Naxos CD), so intense, dedicated, and passionately emotional that you'd almost expect to find blood on the studio floor after it was over! As with so many performances by Toscanini, no one else even comes close. The broadcast (and the Naxos CD) also closed with an equally searing performance of 'Finlandia.' Art Peterson _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf?. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline