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Re: William Tuson

Author: graham
Date: 2009-09-24 08:18

You can listen to Draper's 1917 recording of extracts of the Brahms Quintet to get an idea of how he dealt with Brahms. It is only a handful of years later than his Concertino. In the Brahms, he does not play flat out or rush. He and the quartet are fluid with the tempi, and at one point he adds a whole beat which is not there (and which he did again in the 1928 full recording), but for the most part such fluid traditions in playing the piece have survived into the modern period. His later Mozart recordings (two quintets in the 1920s) show no sign on rushing. His 1928 Schubert Shepherd is again fluid and rhapsodical but far from rushing.

So it seems to me that he just viewed the Concertino as a salon piece, and did not give it the respect he gave Brahms et al.

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