The new Rattle/Berlin Mahler 5 or how I learned to distrust reviews
Posted by: Edot on 11 November 2002
I've been looking forward to this recording for a while so I was dissapointed to read a less than favorable NY Times review of the concert from which the recording was made. I think the words disjointed and rushed to market were tossed around. My local pu blic radio station played the disk last night and I liked it, so I will be picking it up. Maybe the negative review was just sour grapes and a bit of a backlash over the "not so live" live Gurrelieder that EMI/Rattle/Berlin previously released. Any opinio ns yet?
As a side note I saw Martha Argerich with Dutoit / Philadelphia a couple of nights ago. Ravel's Concerto in G was on the program. A work I'm very familiar with and like quite a bit. Philadelphia held their own. Argerich was great in the slow pass ages but completly lost it with the fast & furious. No one seemed to notice the missing notes / memory lapse. The crowd loved her as did the NY Times reviewer. I am an Argerich fan and have been fortunate to see her several times in the last couple of years but It seems all she has to do is show up, to get ovations these days. So much for reviews.ยง
As a side note I saw Martha Argerich with Dutoit / Philadelphia a couple of nights ago. Ravel's Concerto in G was on the program. A work I'm very familiar with and like quite a bit. Philadelphia held their own. Argerich was great in the slow pass ages but completly lost it with the fast & furious. No one seemed to notice the missing notes / memory lapse. The crowd loved her as did the NY Times reviewer. I am an Argerich fan and have been fortunate to see her several times in the last couple of years but It seems all she has to do is show up, to get ovations these days. So much for reviews.ยง