tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7922197028809707290..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Could LSD have saved Tchaikovsky?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-29531314382204077652012-10-30T17:02:45.044+00:002012-10-30T17:02:45.044+00:00Mahlerman, I can only echo your comments about Mra...Mahlerman, I can only echo your comments about Mravinsky's "incendiary performances". <br /><br />There is a particular skill in making this type of white-hot reading work. Much as I admire Barbirolli, I have to say that I find his 1957 Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony (currently available in EMI's Great Recordings box) simply too overwrought, whereas Mravinsky somehow pulls it off.<br /><br />Something to do with Russian blood perhaps? Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-24465922138773958522012-10-30T16:52:43.964+00:002012-10-30T16:52:43.964+00:004,5 and 6 by Mravinsky are surely landmark recordi...4,5 and 6 by Mravinsky are surely landmark recordings whichever benchmark you employ. When I first heard the mono group, with Sanderling in 4, I couldn't believe the intensity and virtuosity that erupted out of the vinyl grooves. Hearing good and even great performances by, say, Jansons or Karajan, is rewarding. But going back to these incendiary performances, that stand the test of time, is just about as rewarding as recorded music can get, I feel.mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.com