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In the Thread: One of the Best Mozart Requiems!
Post Subject: Re: another poor Requiem....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/25/2006

 Romy the Cat wrote:
Since the last week BSO phenomenal live broadcast form BSO Tanglewood I really wonder what they would show today. Today our removed James Levine leads BSO with Tanglewood Festival Chorus with All-Mozart program including the Requiem. If you lucky to visit my site for a next hour or two then you can catch is live at:
http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?episode_id=2880120&program_id=395996
Go to manu on the left and click “listen Live”. I have very good feeling about the forthcoming Requiem. It will be after the stunning Liszt Second last week:
 
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2662

and second, it will be in Tanglewood or on sthe emi-open air… If the performance turn out to be interesting then will post a fragment from it. I have a good feeling…

Yep, it was quit bad. The BSO did bad and the Levine’s reading was so poor that it was even funny in pleases. Levine chose to play Requiem with tempo, intensity and playfulness that would be more suitable for Die Fledermaus then for the Mozart work.  It was like a disco music. Very very bad. It was particularly sad that it was in context of the following….

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/25/levine_is_top_paid_conductor_in_us/

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