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Alex Ross: The Fascinating, Complicated, Difficult Legacy Of Furtwangler

MUSIC Posted: May 3, 2019 1:32 pm

“Could modern performers recapture Furtwängler’s elasticity of style? Most likely not. Scholars such as Robert Philip and Kenneth Hamilton have shownhow the advent of recording permanently changed the way music is played. Effects of rubato and portamento—bending the tempo, sliding from note to note—sounded messy when heard on disc, and they were already passing from fashion in the mid-twentieth century.” – The New Yorker

MUSIC Published: 05.02.19

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 05.02.19

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