Comments on: Compromise – Negotiating: Collaboration in Music

By: Alban

Alban — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:21 +0000

A propos rehearsal time: why there is so little? Because it is possible to pull off good concerts on hardly, I guess, and yes, also because every rehearsal costs money, and there is less and less to spend – but at the end it is the conductor who decides for which piece he wants to spend how much time. Most of the time the concerto gets the least…

Haydn C Major is tiring because of the many quick notes, not much rest in between, and yes, it can get boring!

Best wishes from Glasgow,
Alban

By: Thomaaas

Thomaaas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:07:23 +0000

is the last movement of haydn c major tiring because of being difficult? (i hate this many fast scales which come all ten seconds)

By: David Hartel

David Hartel — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:11:24 +0000

Oops! Thats right, November in LA. And it was you, frankly I am surprised I got the year right 🙂
Looking forward to your next LA visit.

By: Opera Clare

Opera Clare — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:28:31 +0000

Thank you for detailing the specifics of the orchestral rehearsal times – I had no idea they were so short. Are you able to explain why this is? Is it down to orchestral contracts and specified rehearsal times and/or is this “just the way its done” now? Did the soloists of the past have more time set aside for collaborative rehearsal I wonder ?

Enjoy the Shostakovich.

By: Alban

Alban — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:47:08 +0000

Hi David,

oh, that wasn’t me, must have been another cellist 🙂 I played the Haydn in November 2005 in LA. But if indeed you are referring to my performance, thanks for liking it, and I remember of being very exhausted afterwards. It’s a very tiring last movement.

This is exactly the point I am trying to make: for the audience, even a trained one, a compromise won’t be audible as a compromise, and even though it wasn’t what I had in mind before I arrived in LA, this performance was still “my” interpretation – the conductor can want me to change many things, but at the end I have to not only sell it but feel it as mine.
Best wishes,
Alban

By: David Hartel

David Hartel — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:06:05 +0000

So, who’s interpretation was your performance of Haydn’s
cello Concerto in C major at the Los Angeles Philharmonic on June 16th of 2006?. It has left an indelible impression upon me to this day. How much of a compromise was that performance?

Seems like you should have collapsed of exhaustion after that performance based on this reviewers experience. I may be of little experience, however I found it very difficult to find the compromise in that performance.

Respectfully,

DW Hartel