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Harnoncourt
He expressed some fairly salty opinions in the course of a fascinating interview with Suzy Klein. George Szell - lucky he didn't kill him. American orchestras - terrified of making mistakes, where's the music. Erich Kleiber - "father of Carlos Kleiber - the real Kleiber" [Eric, that is...]. Schubert 8 - "I cannot die every day" (things he performs only rarely). Worth a listen if you missed it.
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ear grabbing in the extreme, what a privilege to hear him speak freely and well done Ms Klein for getting it just right
well worth hearing again
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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... this was excellent. O how I love him!
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As someone without a Radio Times - when was this programme on, link please?
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Voilà Madame: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...s_Harnoncourt/Originally Posted by Anna
I shall listen to the podcast.
"The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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... Anna - this was 'Music Matters' at 12:15pm today -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g4sbz
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Queen Anna now has two cloaks upon which to step across the puddle of insufficient information.
Wot gents we is, vints me old mate
"The isle is full of noises... Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
The Tempest, Act III scene 2 ll 148-9
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Fank you, you is both werry fine young gennulmen, werry fine indeed, and I will forthwith step across the proffered cloaks into the unknown and listen.Queen Anna now has two cloaks upon which to step across the puddle of insufficient information.
Wot gents we is, vints me old mate
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Pardon me for getting in between you two.
Why doesn't Suzy Klein do programmes like that more often? It took me back to the good old days when we had a radio channel called Radio 3 and talks were intelligent, slightly provocative without creeping to your subject, wistful yet fresh.
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One of the most fascinating interviews I've heard in a long time - my only regret is that it was only 45 minutes! There was a very humble quality about Harnoncourt that I found really touching.
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