Rescuing Mozart
When you sit thru a great playing of music it is awe inspiring. When you sit thru a bland toned down rendition you can almost imagine John Lydon on stage asking you about your feelings on being cheated.
Safe, sanitised and snooze producing performances plauge music of all types.
Just say no.
Teodor Currentzis is recording Mozart’s Da Ponte operas in grueling sessions in Perm, a Russian town better know for prison gulags that soaring oratorios. It’s part of his rejection — if not hatred — of the norms of the classic music scene.