Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2017-10-20 02:07
Philip,
"What about today's world, and the people playing and listening today and their musical sensibilities? In discussions of performance practice, I hear little or no mention of those things, just reaching for the often vague wishes of composers who are long dead and times that are long gone. Sometimes one hears of a need to educate today's listeners in how the music sounded in the past, but what about what they want right now? Is that of no import?"
I think most of the people listening today want, above all, something meaningful. I think most performers who go to a lot of effort to discover how Mozart probably wanted and expected his stuff to be played do that because the music means a lot to them, and that usually comes through when they play it. Hogwood's recordings come to mind. There are plenty of cookie cutter performances that are polished but don't have a lot of depth, but those are probably not the people who become passionate about a couple of slurs.
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