![]() ![]() I also question the claim that too few “tunes” is somehow why the symphonies are on the back burner (which again I see no evidence of). We also worked on the third movement because of my unfortunate tendency - my inner Mischa Elman I guess - to reach for those glorious high notes using more portamento than he thought wise for a member of the tutti, unless asked for by the conductor. #MUSIC RESCUE REGISTRATION FULL#It isn’t the perpetual motion-like opening that is the killer, difficult though it is at least for me, but those damned “rub your stomach and pat your head” slurred passages that follow, at full tempo. My own teacher made it part of our lesson material even though I was not playing it in concert and was not on the audition trail. The allegro vivace second movement is on so many violin section audition lists, clearly somebody (a lot of somebodies, and influential ones at that) thinks it is something a violinist had pretty darn well have in his fingers before being put on stage. 2 (probably my favorite) with liner notes by a Brit also claims that the symphony is the least played of the four, which makes me think this level of neglect is local not universal. ~ Kenneth Patchen, California poet, “Love Seen as a Search for the Lost”Ĭuriously a CD I have of Symphony No. “Genius is only the drayhorse that coaxes the built cart out / And where we go is reason.” Let’s let them both be their own, all the more so. Whatever great additions Mahler might bring, it would be an historical “putting the cart before the horse.” Much of Schumann is like that, and inserting what we may into that would be the horse before the cart, in the chronology of those, no matter the stature of some other. That showed out from its hiding place between the notes. Like much of Schumann 2nd, it was at those storied final moments an out of body expedition. We sang Mahler’s 2nd with the Cleveland Orchestra, and CvD released our version as a live CD, in-house, in 2002. Like Schubert, greatness too hidden for too many. I should be so lucky as to find my “tunes” meddled with by Mahler, though why shouldn’t we let Schumann be Schumann, his music is greatness enough, and still greater when the keenest performers go deep enough. ![]()
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