Is it the piece or is it the conductor? Sometimes, it's the piece. No matter who's conducting, Beethoven's Ninth is Beethoven's Ninth and there's nothing any conductor can do to ever diminish its transcendent magnificence. Other times, it's the conductor. No matter who's conducting, Shostakovich's Seventh is Shostakovich's Seventh and the conductor better bring everything to the podium with him because, in the wrong performance, the Seventh can sound like the most banal, bathetic, and bombastic pieces of battle music ever ...
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Is it the piece or is it the conductor? Sometimes, it's the piece. No matter who's conducting, Beethoven's Ninth is Beethoven's Ninth and there's nothing any conductor can do to ever diminish its transcendent magnificence. Other times, it's the conductor. No matter who's conducting, Shostakovich's Seventh is Shostakovich's Seventh and the conductor better bring everything to the podium with him because, in the wrong performance, the Seventh can sound like the most banal, bathetic, and bombastic pieces of battle music ever composed. If the conductor is Yevgeny Mravinsky, the Seventh can sound like a soaring monument to the heroism of the human spirit. If the conductor is Leonard Bernstein, the Seventh can sound like a blatant attempt at self-aggrandizement. If the conductor is Roman Kofman, the Seventh sounds better than banal and bathetic, but still bombastic. With the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, Kofman's Shostakovich's Seventh has moments of lyric beauty in the second theme of the opening Allegretto...
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