You can always count on Maazel to add 5 or 10 minutes to the time of a piece. I attended a concert where he did the last three Mozart symphonies, and he made them sound like Mahler.
Maazel before rehearsing the piece: "let's see how slowly I can take this so every note can be clearly heard by the audience." The orchestra before rehearsing the piece: "let's see how slowly he takes this just to spite us."
Maazel and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, channeling and outperforming Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker. One of my hometown orchestra's finest hours... but still, proof that Celibidache knew what he was doing all along... and his friend Maazel admitting it!
This excessively controlled performance literally sucks the life out of one of the most exciting twentieth-century symphonic compositions. Dead on arrival.
What a bizarre and grotesque conductor Maazel was. He flashes these little grins along the way, as if he's satisfying some ghoulish need for control. The music-making is shapeless, soulless, directionless, held firmly by the throat by the conductor, every note controlled, pinned to the wall like a dead butterfly. To say that it is micro-managed is to give new meaning to understatement. Yes, his technique was clear...but to what end? Grotesquerie.
Danke! Ich hab mitgespielt und suche die Aufnahme seit Jahren!
You can always count on Maazel to add 5 or 10 minutes to the time of a piece. I attended a concert where he did the last three Mozart symphonies, and he made them sound like Mahler.
Maazel before rehearsing the piece: "let's see how slowly I can take this so every note can be clearly heard by the audience."
The orchestra before rehearsing the piece: "let's see how slowly he takes this just to spite us."
Maazel and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, channeling and outperforming Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker. One of my hometown orchestra's finest hours... but still, proof that Celibidache knew what he was doing all along... and his friend Maazel admitting it!
MAGNIFICO
This symphony is ver difficult to understand for me. I respect conductors.
Peccato per la tecnica direttoriale eccellente! E un Szifra tra i direttori!
This excessively controlled performance literally sucks the life out of one of the most exciting twentieth-century symphonic compositions. Dead on arrival.
What a bizarre and grotesque conductor Maazel was. He flashes these little grins along the way, as if he's satisfying some ghoulish need for control. The music-making is shapeless, soulless, directionless, held firmly by the throat by the conductor, every note controlled, pinned to the wall like a dead butterfly. To say that it is micro-managed is to give new meaning to understatement. Yes, his technique was clear...but to what end? Grotesquerie.
Madonna, e lentissimo?
Dev' essere circa 48 minuti, questi la fa per 57? Il tipo non capisce niente della espressione prokofieviana!
What a ridiculous title to put up for this complex symphony, PROKOFJEW?? is that supposed to be clever and or amusing?neither......
That is the German spelling of his name. There is no joke intended.