Word: mosso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distorted performance of the Sibelius Fifth was then run through in fine style. This work is, to me, the best Sibelius has ever written; it contains at least two first rate themes: one starting the second half of the first movement, and the other running pizzicato through the andante mosso. The blown-up, excessively melodramatic performance (including the shaking, not vibrating, string) which Koussevitzky provides does not, however, penetrate deeper than the outer edge of the surface. However popular the interpretation may be, it cannot be considered valid; it stuns the audience, but it is not within a mile...
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