Here’s something you don’t see every day: Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Symphony in the Emperor Waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr. The sound isn’t great, but who cares?
Video: Giulini conducts Johann Strauss II
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As much as I admire Giulini, I’m not so sure on this performance. I’m missing the lightness and a bit of fun in it…two traits he was not known for. If I were just watching the video without sound, I might guess he was conducting Bruckner. Even though this isn’t the Vienna Phil, I can see why he never conducted the famous New Year’s concerts.
Watching an orchestral video without sound may be a curious exercise, but i think listening to it without watching is more telling. So i tried that and at first i thought that chris’s objections were exaggerated – the performance seemed quite beautiful to me, in spite of the poor quality of the recorded sound. But somewhere between 4 and 5 minutes into the piece, it became so slow and ponderous, all ritards so overdone and all forte passages so bombastic, that i had to agree – the Maestro is nowhere near his best in this kind of music.
You’re both right. But there are moments …
The sound isn’t great, but who cares?
Sorry, Tim, but that doesn’t make sense to me. It’s like going to a five-star restaurant, being told by the owner that the ingredients are selected from the food aisle of the 99 Cents store a few miles away, and my saying, “but who cares?”
What I meant is that the video is more of an opportunity to see and hear Giulini conduct a piece he is not normally associated with. You put up with the sound in such a case.
I guess I was more wary than I should have been about what you actually meant since I recall in the past hashing over the matter of an orchestral performance, its quality and appeal, and the importance of the acoustics surrounding it.