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In the Thread: One of the Best Mozart Requiems!
Post Subject: Re: Scherchen, Scherchen, Scherchen...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/12/2006

 clarkjohnsen wrote:
Romy wrote: "what is interesting the he proposes Scherchen as some kind of cult or some kind of off-mainstream?"

No, not at all! He wrote: "Who on earth was Scherchen? I soon found out, and Beecham and Walter soon became history. And thus began a personal love affair with the music making of this quixotic conductor that has persisted ever since."
Not really, I rather based my comment on the Jeff Lipscomb assumption that Scherchen’s “is not a performance that will appeal to every taste”. I do not see that Scherchen requires any acquired or evolved taste. What he did was very much in main stream, he juts did it is some instances better and it was it. BTW, Clark, talking about the “conventional” … Did you hear Scherchen’s doing the Mahler Fifth only with Philadelphia Orchestra? The guys from the Mahler forum have threatened me…

http://www.klassi.org/mahler/viewtopic.php?t=1042&sid=37583871e419e194b7e372f150af0fdd

Rgs,
Romy

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