Author Topic: I like this Manfred Honeck interview on Mahler (link provided)  (Read 7280 times)

Offline barry guerrero

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUuRUnW3Zo

This gets better as it goes. He's very subtle, and his soft touch seems a  bit at odds with the brute force of Pittsburgh's brass section. But perhaps the answer to that lies in what he says regarding dynamics. Give him a try.

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Re: I like this Manfred Honeck interview on Mahler (link provided)
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2011, 06:37:38 PM »
Thanks for posting this, Barry. 
 I agree with Honeck's comments about the effectiveness of "soft climaxes"--they don't all need to be loud to say something.

His comments about the positioning in Mahler's orchestra are also interesting:  a precursory effect to stereophonic sound?

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Re: I like this Manfred Honeck interview on Mahler (link provided)
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 04:57:44 AM »
If you are interested, there are a lot of more interviews with different conductors (chailly, Blomstedt, Boulez, Salonen, Maazel, etc.) at the Universal  site:

http://mahler.universaledition.com/riccardo-chailly-on-mahler/

There are also transcripts of the interviews.

Roffe

 

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