Author: Greg
Date: 1999-09-01 17:14
Actually, the performances that I have heard are with Marcellus, Benita Valente, and Erich Leinsdorf, piano. They were given as part of a subscription concert at Severance Hall in 1969 - Leinsdorf liked to program a piece of chamber music on a full orchestra concert and did it many times in Cleveland, here in Chicago and elsewhere.
The audience goes wild at the end - and for good reason. The performances are sensational and are the most beautiful and Schubertian of any that I have heard.
Marcellus told me a funny story about what happened at the end of the dress rehearsal for these performances. Leinsdorf said as they were walking offstage that "All dotted 8ths followed by a 16th note groupings are going to be played as triplets, right?"
Of course Marcellus was shocked because nothing was said about it in rehearsal so he was hearing about this for the first time! The school of thought that he (and most of the rest of the musical community) came from just didn't endorse that kind of casual approach to rehearsals, music or interpretation in general. So even though Leinsdorf was the conductor of the concert that week, Marcellus and Valente both insisted and overruled him on the spot - a very unusual thing to pull off with any conductor!
Greg Smith
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