Classical Music for Aficionados

Milstein’s Bach exquisite!

‘He was one of those wonders of nature.

As he aged, lost very little if anything at all.

Szeryng, Very, very fine violinist.

One of the best!

Yes these older violinists could teach today's young violinists a few lessons if they were still here. As in pianists the older ones are just as good as the young ones of today

One word, globalization.  This has led to a certain standardization of approaches to playing as opposed to in the past when there was more emphasis (acceptance) on a more personal approach.  The same can be said of soloists on any instrument, not just violin and piano.  On a “larger” scale the result of this globalization can be clearly heard in the major orchestras whose previously very distinctive personalities have become somewhat homogenized due to the phenomenon of the prevalence of the traveling guest conductor and, even more recently, principal players from different parts of the world who are the product of different “schools” and their respective approaches.

Btw, on the wonderful Milstein/Horowitz Brahms clip, I think that rv’s astute observation re tuning is, more than anything, a result of pitch instability in the playback of the recording.  Obvious with the piano’s sound which doesn’t have the more forgiving “cushion” of the violin’s vibrato.  
 

I don’t know much but I did think like frogman’s cushion and why I made

PERFECTION .

The Great Leipzig Gewandhaus had men only from Leipzig Conservatory for over 200 years.

Stopped slowly after DDR collapsed which made me think Masur might  be  good for divas in US .

As the DDR was  in riot Masur walked among alone talking people to calm the mob  and  he did much .

. Masur is still beloved in Leipzig.