Re: The greatest set of variations on a theme!


Andrys Basten wrote:

> >This is a defense?

> ". . . Recorded sound considerations included, it would be
> my first recommendation for the piece now. Barenboim and
> Giulini at their very and considerable best"

Thanks, but I am afraid you are trying to be reasonable, which by
default is a perdant stance in rmcr (-:.

I do hold strong political opinions (don't most of us) but I'd never
claim I like a person's recordings less (or more, for that matter) than
I actually do, for political reasons. I've heard a couple of truly
exceptional, some undebiably excellent, and also a lot of merely good
recordings from Daniel Barenboim. (I can't remember anything really
that *bad*, really.) I call'em as I hear'em. The reason I mentioned
Furtwangler's recording of the given Mozart work at all was not to bash
Barenboim's (which I didn't hear yet!), but to point to my favorite
recording of the Mozart piece, among the ones I know, to some listener
who didn't seem particularly fond of Barenboim's interpretations in
general.

But, once again, attmepting to be reasonable is, on occasion, a lost
cause in this particular cyberden of perdition.

regards,
SG

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