Classical Music for Aficionados

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John Adams' recent "Must he Devil Have All the Good Tunes" with Wang, Dudamel and the LAPO is worth hearing.  IIUC is it available only on LP and on the usual streaming sources.

John Adams' recent "Must The Devil Have All the Good Tunes" with Wang, Dudamel and the LAPO is worth hearing.

Indeed, I heard it performed last week at the San Francisco Symphony and enjoyed it very much. The pianist was Víkingur Ólafsson (one of my favorites) with conducter Esa-Pekka Salonen. The musicians looked like they had fun playing it, and John Adams was in attendance.

I never got the Celi cult.  All I can say is that his Munich concert goers must of had strong bladders to make it through his glacial performances.  

I cannot vouch for all his performance but Celi interpretation was always about time not as a passing rythm , like the seasons, but more about one instant where everything is enclosed...

We sometimes must learn to listen something, and for sure all is not for everybody...

I already posted a piece of Indian Sarangi, one of the most fascinating instrument of India, and a poster say to me that it got on his nerve...😁😊

We cannot like eveything at the same times and sometimes our preference are right in a way....

Our taste are also a miror of our own ongoing evolution.... It takes me time to appreciate jazz for example... I never got it young.... But i loved Bach at first chords...Nothing is wrong and right, only an evolution...

But the "cult" about Celi come from this concept of time, no other Conductor explored his way...

Celi express and give to everything the density of eternity...

Eternity can be boring so to speak ... 😊

Anyway some composers are more suited for this maestro "suspended" stick than some other...

Bruckner’s interpretation for example are certainly stupendous...It is here i catch his art and unique vision...

The greatest examples in the way to  use of time for me by conductors are Furtwangler and Celibidache...No one is able to imitate them perfectly though... They become myths...Or examplar of the art of conducting...Most maestros distributed themselves between these 2 ways to express time...

In Furtwangler: Music pass with his own beating time completely out of everyday time...

In Celibidache : Music dont pass, but surge directly from his timing eternal origin or source...

No one is right here or wrong , Celi. or Furt. only gods waiting for us to listen...

But we cannot got their specific way at the same time and the same day...

Our listening life is an evolution...

I never got the Celi cult. All I can say is that his Munich concert goers must of had strong bladders to make it through his glacial performances.