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Posted by Bill Kenny I hope you will agree with me that one of MusicWeb's greatest strengths is the right of both reviewers and readers to exchange opinions and comment. Thanks once again for yours.
on September 7, 2007, 1:55 pm, in reply to "http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2007/Jul-Dec07/eif4.htm"
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Thanks for your thoughts Martin - it's good to see comment on reviews in Seen and Heard appearing on the Board. I know that Mark Berry is away at the moment so it seems reasonable for me - as one of the S and H Editors - to offer a response to what you say.
Without going into too much of the detail in your note, I feel bound to mention that the production concept chosen by von Götz for the Edinburgh/Cologne Capriccio was viewed as relevant and understandable by virtually all reviewers who reported it, admittedly some more enthusiastically than others: a quick check on The Opera Critic web site (www.theoperacritic.com) can confirm this.
It may also help explain Mark Berry's point of view if I add that he is a British Academy Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge - whose research concerns the role of music and aesthetics in political thought from Wagner onwards. His book 'Treacherous bonds and laughing fire: politics and religion in Wagner's 'Ring' ' was published by Ashgate ( Aldershot) in 2006 and a recent paper, 'Romantic modernism: Bach, Furtwängler, and Adorno' will appear in New German Critique in 2008.
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