Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Classical sections of the evening were filled with contradictions. Schubert's Fifth Symphony, the longest single work and the only one played as originally written, was technically the worst; in both first and third movements the orchestra fell apart, violins didn't play together and so on. And...
After reels of behaving like Shirley's father, Reagan suddenly exhibits an unpaternal passion, explains breathlessly that he isn't really her father, and marries her. Moviegoers with very strong stomachs may be able to view an appearance of rebated incest as a romantic situation.
If this were a unique case, it might be fobbed off as some sort of mistake, but it is typical of the utter confusion that exists in American recordings of Romantic piano music.
Kilenyi's interpretation shows, in every measure, a consistent lack of either feeling for Romantic music or comprehension of Chopin's ideas. The energetic and heroic studies are methodically hammered at, and the brilliant or ethereal ones are transformed into specimens of picayune flippancy. To top it all off, he...
All this is proof of a painfully evident point: in the extremely important field of Romantic piano music, the careful planning that went into the production of many classical recordings has vanished. Incompetent pianists mess up important works while competent ones are idle, and great music remains unrecorded while inconsequential...