The idea of making a half-hour video solely devoted to negative (and at times ridiculing) criticism is, to me, unprofessional. A "likable" critic is not really a critic, but a mirror of ourselves to validate our own biases.All fair points. For me, an "unlikable" critic is the good critic, in that he challenges our comfortable views, which potentially opens up space for us to appreciate things in a different perspective. Calling him "arrogant" is a bit too fast, don't you think? What might appears as "clickbait" for you might be just an honest opinion for him and his fans. His "limitation" is precisely what makes his critique valuable, in that his is different from yours or mine so we can get a different take on familiar things, whether we agree with it or not. He provided justifications for his distaste for Furtwangler's "Black 9th" and I think they are reasonable (bad sound and sloppy plays).
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A "likable" critic is not really a critic, but a mirror of ourselves to validate our own biases.ĭear Allegro, I am no fan of Hurwitz, but he is a professional critic, and a critic's job is to cast judgments on these recordings according to his own reasonings.
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I myself have wanted to post video responses to some of his opinions, but I figured I’d better just ignore him from now on and save my frustration for more worthwhile things like war, poverty, and global pandemics.Dear Allegro, I am no fan of Hurwitz, but he is a professional critic, and a critic's job is to cast judgments on these recordings according to his own reasonings. I like his recording surveys where he talks about positive and negative alike, and his videos on more obscure works, but now I think he’s devolving into “classical music clickbait” and I wish a more likeable person on YouTube was doing this because I think the concept itself is great.
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My impression is that he is unable to see beyond the surface, and if anyone hears something “special” in the recording he slams them for “hearing things that aren’t there." Why his opinion is so influential is beyond me. I mean, if you don’t understand why people like it, why waste all those words? He ought to admit his own limitations and express what he thinks about it, but he goes way beyond that and says that other people have limitations. Not simply because I disagree with his opinion, but because anyone who calls themselves an honest, upright critic and needs to post that long of a video just to say negative things about something is clearly an insecure polemicist. I ended my short-lived subscription to his channel when he posted a half-hour rant against the 1942 Furtwängler Beethoven 9th. On the list of Le Sacre recordings I will return to, in no particular order: the aforementioned Markevitch/Philharmonia (which is still forking awesome after all these years) and Ančerl/CPO, Dutoit/OSM, Ozawa/CSO, Barenboim/CSO, Boulez/LSO, Bernstein/LSO, Stravinsky/Columbia, Roth/Les Siècles, Fischer/Budapest, MTT/BSO, Chailly/Lucerne. By the way, I really like Gergiev in general, so this isn't just me reflexively bashing on him as some do. There are A LOT of good Le Sacre recordings, though, so I really don't need as wayward and distorted a version as Gergiev's 2001 outing. I should probably also revisit the Cleveland recording on DG at some point, since a few of his DG recordings have grown on me considerably over the years, such as the very highly underrated CSO Varèse disc. I think I was 12.īoulez's Le Sacre recordings oddly enough have never been that high on my favorites list, except for the video he made with the LSO, which I like a lot.
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The Markevitch was on a very cheap cassette that died quickly, so I replaced it with Ančerl as I couldn't find the Markevitch again, but it was the first recorded music I had ever purchased for myself.
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I had Markevitch's with the Philharmonia on cassette a long time ago, but the one I grew up with was Ančerl/CPO. What's your favourite? Personally Boulez's first Sony version is one that gets me like no other.Įver hear this one? The balance is really off, with some parts inaudible, but it's pretty wild.Honestly I couldn't possibly choose only one.