Music and struggling

[Karl Henning]

Actually Britten is my only exception...he was ONLY good at interpreting his own music

Oh, that's not fair.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Oh, that's not fair.

perhaps not my only exception then....but I'll blow your socks off with my interpretations of the music of Henning.

[SimonNZ]

I used to own an lp of Britten conducting Haydn, which I thought was particularly good.

[Monsieur Croche]

Actually Britten is my only exception...he was ONLY good at interpreting his own music

DUUUDE... Britten was a musically brilliant accompanist for art song, and not just his own songs, i.e. apart from having a formidable technique, he had a profound and sympathetic musical intelligence which he brought to the table.

Also, dig around for his recording of Mozart, Symphony No. 40, G minor, KV. 550... recorded in The Maltings [he takes all the repeats as well] It is THE only recording which beautifully sounds out that symphony is 'all about' the minor second -- and get back to us on that above written youthful, wildly impulsive, brash and reckless toss-off. 

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ok perhaps I really shouldn't be writing youthful, wildly impulsive, brash and reckless toss-offs whilst M. Croche is around!

Thank you for the recommended recordings...I will soon amend my ways.....

[Monsieur Croche]

Ok perhaps I really shouldn't be writing youthful, wildly impulsive, brash and reckless toss-offs whilst M. Croche is around!

Thank you for the recommended recordings...I will soon amend my ways.....

You are at exactly the correct juncture of life where I would worry about you more if you were not saying, thinking, and writing youthful, wildly impulsive, brash and reckless -- and audacious -- toss-offs.
Right now, that is in the cosmic order of exactly what you should be doing. Better, too, now than when you're forty-two, ya know?

"Trust me on this one." [Ha haaaa haaaaaa. Don't you automatically not trust someone when they say that?]

Best regards

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Britten is a better conductor than I thought! It appears that I have been listening to the wrong Mozart 40th all this time.......

Thank you, Monsieur Croche.

[knight66]

Actually Britten is my only exception...he was ONLY good at interpreting his own music

No, I don't ascribe to that. There are a number of performances that suggest otherwise: Elgar Gerontius is one. His pianism was exceptional and he left some excellent Schubert.

Tippet was a bit of a liability as a conductor, RvW was not too great, even in his own music.

Mike