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Posted by Martin Walker
on April 2, 2009, 12:25 pm
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I am in full agreement with Geoff Diggines about the absurd ruminations of the programme note writer on Freud, Kraus and Musil. It might also be pointed out that Kraus wrote against the vast crime against humanity that was WW1 while and immediately after it took place, and that most of his publications were commentaries on the mendacity of "public opinion" as concocted by the press of his time. But to my musical question, Geoff: do you have special knowledge about a performance of Berg's Kammerkonzert conducted by Hans Rosbaud or was that a momentary slip of memory? I would be most interested in such a recording, since none of the recordings that I have hitherto heard of the piece come close to what I would like to hear, and the transcendent performance by the Ensemble Modern I heard a few years ago was not recorded for posterity.
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