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...FESTIVAL. "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf." The world-famous soprano in a recital of songs and arias by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Strauss. Repeat...
...plies a sober, analytical course through the jazz recordings made between New Orleans' Storyville days and the birth of the big-band era in the early 1930s. He scrutinizes Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller praises their "fusion of technical...
...recording history. First, there is his initial installment of Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, dazzlingly executed, imaginatively shaped, proving more than ever that while Gould's Bach is invariably different from anybody else's, it invariably has its own kind of rightness. Then there are Mozart's first five piano sonatas, which he spins out in enthusiastic, masculine, superclassical style. This performance helps offset Gould's hyperbolical habit of denouncing Mozart in interviews ("Anyone who has to write 28 symphonies before he can write a good one can't be much...
...this pass: set aside the slurred inner voices in the Mozart, the gaping holes in the Beethoven where one fully expects to hear second violins and violas, the cracking and blasting brass, the consistently out of tune winds. These are the agonized sounds (or silences) of musicians stretched beyond their capabilities...
...winds were always successful in outblasting the strings and often completely obliterated the fiddlers who seemed in particular to be their mortal enemies. The leather-lunged trumpets vandalized the two outer movements of the Beethoven, while percussionists ran roughshod over the Mozart overture...