Post by desr on Nov 3, 2013 12:13:27 GMT -5
Just seen in an interview by Michael Henderson of the conductor Daniel Harding, in the latest edition of The Spectator magazine:
‘I was gratified to see film of Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Fifties in Japan. He is not yet Karajan. His arms are not in the right place, and yet he was about 50. Look at him ten years later and he has become the master of physical control that everybody remembers, but he wasn’t at that time. I’ve seen a tape of Carlos Kleiber doing Falstaff in Zurich in the Sixties. It’s a fabulous performance but it isn’t the Kleiber he became. These are important lessons for a young conductor to learn’.
Does this mean what I think it does... now that would be worth seeing! How can one persuade DH to reveal his sources?!
‘I was gratified to see film of Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Fifties in Japan. He is not yet Karajan. His arms are not in the right place, and yet he was about 50. Look at him ten years later and he has become the master of physical control that everybody remembers, but he wasn’t at that time. I’ve seen a tape of Carlos Kleiber doing Falstaff in Zurich in the Sixties. It’s a fabulous performance but it isn’t the Kleiber he became. These are important lessons for a young conductor to learn’.
Does this mean what I think it does... now that would be worth seeing! How can one persuade DH to reveal his sources?!