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From: Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The problem with Haitink (?)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:32:27 +0200
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On 24/10/2024 16:30, Graham wrote:
> On 2024-10-24 4:57 a.m., Roland van Gaalen wrote:
>> Beethoven 4, recorded 1987
>> in Philips box 442 073-2
>> Concertgebouw Orchestra
>> Conductor: Bernard Haitink
>>
>> Verdict: very good but no cigar
>>
>> + great orchestral playing
>> + fine interpretation
>> + lively, expressive, exciting; definitely not boring
>> + excellent sound
>> + all in all very good
>>
>> And yet
>> - the exuberance, while not suppresssed, is slightly restrained, 
>> safely within the limits of good taste, as it were, where I think the 
>> music should sound as if almost going out of control
>> -- 
> 
> Careful!!! You're beginning to resemble Dan!!

I was just trying to explain why this Beethoven cycle by Haitink will 
probably stay in one of the shoeboxes in my attic.
--
Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam