Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2004/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] George Szell Beethoven 5th
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:59:34 -0400

I don't have the recording - how far before is "just" before?

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larisa Duffy and David Dow [mailto:duffyl@-----.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:15 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] George Szell Beethoven 5th
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> George Szell's weird Rit...I realize I may seem a bit irreverant or
> irrelevant depending on who is listening but towards the end of the
> Clevelend Beethoven 5 just before the final 34 in the last
> movement is what
> I hear as an incredible ritardando not written...or so it seems to be. I
> find this to be one of the elements in this Beethoven 5 that
> really bugs the
> hell out of me...otherwise it is pretty good.
>
> Does ritarding when no written bother some of you..this one is really
> killing me.
>
> David Dow
> Symphony NB
>

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