Op 2022-06-28 om 23:54 schreef gggg gggg:
On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 12:16:56 AM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 1:51:07 AM UTC-10, Gerard wrote:
I'm referring to a recent review on MusicWeb (about symphonies by(Recent Y. upload):
Atterberg).
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Mar14/Atterberg_sys_v12_CHSA5116.htm
The reviewer is deeply disappointed by almost everything Järvi recorded.
A few quotes:
""Neeme Järvi’s continuing Atterberg symphony cycle is frustrating in a way
that sums up Järvi’s entire career. It both promotes and trivializes >>> little-known music by treating it to proficient, skilled, soulless
performances. An Atterberg album is a strange place for a music critic to
take a firm stand, but I’m afraid I have a lot to say.""
""He treats almost every composer this way. His lack of empathy contaminates
his Chabrier album (my colleague Dan Morgan says “incidental charm and >>> colouristic touches barely register”), his Saint-Saëns (my 2012 review seems
never to have been published: “missing the last degree of romantic
passion”), his Suppé (my colleague John Sheppard notes “lack of
commitment”), his Tchaikovsky ballets (Nick Barnard was “hugely
disappointed”), his Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony (John Quinn finds he >>> “underplays” emotions “to the point of coolness”), and his Bruckner (“too
damned fast,” gripes Gavin Dixon). ""
""Neeme Järvi will leave behind one of the most conflicted legacies of any
conductor. He was a passionate advocate for unknown music, but his passion
typically evaporated on the podium. He persuaded the CEO of BIS to let him
record the symphonies of Eduard Tubin, a composer whose music I did not like
until I heard albums by other conductors.""
""He adds lots of unheard music into his repertoire, but rarely thinks about
how to interpret it idiomatically and compassionately. He eagerly takes on
projects recording obscure composers like Atterberg, and then his approach
trivializes them.""
Is this how "we" think about Neeme Järvi?
Didn't he make better recordings than the ones mentioned? Prokofiev?
Shostakovich? Sibelius?
No favorites?
Neeme Järvi's 10 Best Recordings Previewed, or, How To Be Great Without Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms
(Recent Y. u.):
Dave's Faves No. 110 (Rimsky-Korsakov)In this case (Rimsky-Korsakov's suites from operas) I concur with the
quoted reviewer on Musicweb-international.
Järvi's performances of these suites are rather medioce, compared to recordings by Zinman, Bakels, Schwarz, and (best of all) Serov, or
Ansermet or Tjeknavorian (to name a few who have made recordings of
several of those suites).
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