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Author: Simon Ubsdell
Date: 2020-09-30 01:28
Listening to Tony Pay's gorgeous recording of the 2nd Spohr Concerto with the London Sinfonietta, it's not just the amazing musicianship that I find so inspiring, it's the feeling of being present at a contemporaneous performance.
I love flamboyant "modern" playing of this concerto and Spohr generally, but there's something really magical about being transported into the history of the piece.
It suddenly makes so much more sense and you see the colours and subtleties of a unified whole.
It stops sounding like a virtuoso showstopper (as for instance when someone like Julian Bliss plays it, brilliantly of course) and it lives in its own right.
Audiences of course love something that sounds difficult but Tony Pay just makes this piece sound like actual music.
Maybe flashy concertos "should" sound difficult. I don't know. But it's amazing when they don't and something is revealed about the original intention.
That's all. I'll shut up now.
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