"Could modern performers recapture Furtwängler's elasticity of style? Most likely not. Scholars such as Robert Philip and Kenneth Hamilton have shownhow the advent of recording permanently changed the way music is played. Effects of rubato and portamento"bending the tempo, sliding from note to note"sounded messy when heard on disc, and they were already passing from […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM on May 3, 2019