[lit-ideas] Going overboard for Edwin Fischer
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:46:10 -0500
On 2/22/2010 6:39 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
they also go overboard for Edwin Fischer
All those golden codgers of the keyboard are well
worth the listen, in my opinion. Fischer,
Gieseking, Wanda Landowska on harpsichord, Josef
Hofmann, Rachmaninoff playing his transcriptions,
Maria Yudina's eccentric Goldberg -- beneath the
hiss of digitally remastered acoustic recordings,
vague early electrics, or later mono is another
world of sound. It's so easy to fall into the
Gadamerian trap of historicism, assuming one knows
exactly how the standards were lower, the world
smaller, nobody keeping score as it were. Not so.
Probably the only semi-golden Bach flubber I can
name is Horowitz, whose arrangements lack all
conviction. (Check out the complete 1968 Carnegie
Hall "return" recital for a Bach performance
absent all sense of purpose.)
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