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Author: Simon Ubsdell
Date: 2020-10-01 00:50
What's so revealing about the Tony Pay recording is not that it's not incredibly virtuoso playing, because it most certainly is.
It's that the virtuosic element seems irrelevant: it doesn't sound like that kind of music.
And it's because of that "irrelevance" that the distinctive character of the piece emerges.
There is a strange, melancholy darkness to Spohr that gets lost when you play the notes for maximum bravura effect.
I can't help thinking there's so much more genuine musical interest in the Spohr concertos than in the (to my mind) rather flaccid Weber concertos, where there never really seems to be anything particularly worth discovering below the shiny surface.
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Simon Ubsdell |
2020-09-30 01:28 |
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Philip Caron |
2020-09-30 05:24 |
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Re: Performances that put you in the time and the place of composition |
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Simon Ubsdell |
2020-10-01 00:50 |
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seabreeze |
2020-09-30 05:39 |
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Tony Pay |
2020-10-01 22:05 |
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The Clarinet Pages
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