Re: Verdi: Quattro pezzi sacri


david7gable@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >The Gardiner recording is wonderful.
>
> I'm skeptical but I haven't heard it. Maybe some day I'll hear it and
> have my prejudices confirmed or disconfirmed.
>
> The very thought of Gardiner doing Verdi makes my flesh crawl. When
> you scrub something clean you're supposed to find the original buried
> underneath. Unless Gardiner has truly changed his spots, his recording
> won't sound like what the Italians have been doing for a century and a
> half (at least ante Muti) but like an entirely new animal. Gardiner is
> making the entire canon over in a brand new anorexic image. I prefer
> the original.
>
> -david gable

Completely unlike that guy, what was his name again?
Tus-Tosco-Tosca-Toscanini! Yes, that was his name. I believe he was
from Italy too, and quite well respected in his day. He spent most of
his time scrubbing music clean from rust and goo. I guess that makes
him somebody whose performances didn't sound Italian either. BTW, what
do Italian performances sound like?
Verdi was somebody who was very meticulous and he wanted performers to
represent as closely as possible what he wrote in the scores - whch are
very specifically marked. I guess scrubbing rust off and discovering
what he actually wrote is un-Italian too. Wait - wasn't Verdi from
Italy? I am confused.

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