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<DIV>Good thinking there, presenting GG-related music in the dry season.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a moral question. Richard Wagner was an arrogant, antisemitic,
cheating, wife-beating, pompous, self-grandizing, money-wasting and mostly
overrated little git and in short a very nasty piece of work. His music is
pompous, bombastic to the extreme, far too loud at times, far too long for sure
and the words...this might be fun if you are an english speaker, but I
understand the native tongue...</DIV>
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<DIV>Yet...Wagner is one of the most influential (and controversial !) composers
of the last 150 years. Without him there would be no Mahler, maybe no Strawinsky
and definetly no Heavy Metal. And, I am ashamed to say, some of his Overtures
actually rock...</DIV>
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<DIV>What should one do in such a situation ? Continue to love to hate that
composer or try to get into the whole Ring Thing anyway ?</DIV>
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<DIV>I assume that GG was fond of Wagner for purely musicological and artistic
reasons, but is that enough to justify a Wagner transcription ?</DIV>
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<DIV>Speaking of, here is some fun with Wagner</DIV>
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<DIV>Pat</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mmacelletti@sbcglobal.net
href="mailto:mmacelletti@sbcglobal.net">michael macelletti</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f minor</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [f_minor] Fw: off-track</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>things have been a bit quiet lately, so i thought i'd make a listening
recommendation, albeit somewhat off-track. the new remastered solti
wagner ring , in the super deluxe edition, is really fabulous. ( "
greatest recording of all time ", bbc music magazine 2012 .
) truly a win-win. although a little pricey
, it'll probably soon be out of print anyway. and maybe this
isn't so off-subject. gould's wagner interpretations are not too far
removed in spirit from the great bayreuth festspielhause conductors such as
knappertsbusch and furtwangler from the '50's. he must have been
familiar with their
recordings.
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<DIV>( and horowitz probably wouldn't have liked their wagner either, i
bet. )</DIV>
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