Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-06-01 19:14
There are things to say on both sides, but I think playing overall has benefitted from a greater familiarity by players, and more important, conductors, audition committees and audiences, with playing styles internationally. Some "national styles" got away with things that, after all, didn't sound that great, and that's more difficult now. A couple years ago, I heard Oper Frankfurt play "Arabella." Fantastic solo playing with a sound that would fly in most any orchestra in the world, on German system horns. One very good thing national styles accomplished, though, was a coordinated, compatible sound throughout the orchestra because everyone thought about sound and style in very similar ways.
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