[Trombone-l] Artistry

[Rod Ellard]

A bit off topic, but is M2 really all that great a piece?  After following the Finlayson/Kaplan thread in TTF for a couple of days, I put on my recording of M2 by Walter conducting the NYPO (someone will chime in with the date). There were some great parts but there were some not-so-great parts.  Some parts sounded like bad Hollywood, some sounded a little student-ish, similar to but maybe not quite what Gustav able to do in, for example, M9 ( a piece I am still coming to grips with after, oh, twenty years of owning Solti/Chicago's M9 - Pankow plays great on that recording by the way). 

We can genuflect before artistic genius and demand the same from others, but perfection is rarely attained by even the best and criticizing anyone for falling short seems to be a mug's game at best.  Mr. F's comments seems to be a little like complaining about the moneylenders being allowed inside the temple and for that I respect his remarks but where the line is to be drawn is a difficult question.

R.

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I didn't hear the Kaplan performance.  It may have been a pedestrian
reading of a great piece.  I don't have a problem with calling BS when
it is present.  We all have to find the balance between being true to
our standards, and doing the things we have to do to be able to be
working musicians at all.

Jeff

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