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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br>Jorgen thanks for answering. I have to agree with your comments re Abbado</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">; is he becoming grouchy? It seems to me<br>that Ms. Grimaud did what she had to do under the circumstances: insist. The fact that Deutsche Grammophon backed her up<br>is 'pretty swell'. Radio France Musique devoted an hour to her today on "Horizons Chimeriques". Bach-Busoni. Grimaud sincerely <br>appreciates the music of Gould and his career. <b>Save the wolves</b>.<br><br>Horowitz here on the hallowed pages of F Minor?! - Jorgen you're a brave man. Thanks for posting that video, I went<br>on to watch the entire film. M. Horowitz was some 84 years old and making music like nobody's business. The 4 minute<br>shoot of Horowitz and Giulini listening to playback and 'discussing' the retakes is marvellous.<br><br><u>Marco Poli</u> thanks for the info on the "Music and Arts 654". <u>Thanks also to Pat</u>. </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br><br>Mary<br></font><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:46:24 +0100<br>From: jorgen.lundmark@sundsvall.nu<br>To: f_minor@glenngould.org<br>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Oh for the love of Busoni<br><br>
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I think Abbado is behaving very silly. It is obvious he would not
have been able to work with our hero, the not very puristic Mr.
Gould. Abbado probably wouldn't have allowed GG to play his cadenzas
in Beethoven's first (especially not the extravagantly modern one in
the third movement), and would have critizied him for the added
octaves and other matters in the Mozart 24th. I agree with Ms.
Grimaud that the cadenza must be the choice of the pianist. Also in
music history it has been more the rule than the exception to do
something extra in the cadenza, be it in a virtuoso vein or a
departure from the idiom which the work was written in. In this
context, Busoni's candenza is rather timid -- but also very
beautiful -- in comparison with many other examples.<br>
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I urge all of you to listen to Horowitz' wondeful recording of the
work in question (Mozart's 23rd). Here's the filmed perfomance (the
cadenza is at [8:45]):<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vttZzUPg3A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vttZzUPg3A</a><br>
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/Jorgen<br>
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<font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">"Titans clash over a
mere cadenza"</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">The very first
news item I heard on my clock radio this morning:</font><br>
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<a target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/arts/music/helene-grimaud-and-claudio-abbado-part-ways.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1</a><br>
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<font style="font-size:16pt" size="4">So Ferruccio Busoni has
put an end to the long, happy Grimaud-Abbado marriage.</font><font style="font-size:16pt" size="4"><br>
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Mary</font></div>
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