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Gregm wrote:

"...Tchaikovsky with any sentimentalism or without any hysteria?where else you have heard Tchaikovsky with any sentimentalism or without any hysteria?" Actually I'll be looking forward to that (after Mravinski, Rozhdestvenski, Karajan, Rostropovich, Furt, Fricsay + others I have forgotten)!

The Golovanov’s Pathetique was VERY controversial in Russia. I head that even the musicians who play it almost when to strike because they refused to played it THAT way. I kind of agree and when I heard it for a first time I kind of was lost. The interesting things that whatever Golovanov did in that Pathetique he implemented at very very very high live of accomplishment, and the orchestra sound phenomenally. That, although I was in disagreement witch the Golovanov’s presentation made me to listen it again and again. Eventually it begin to grow on me that Golovanov’s in his reading, converts a personal frenzy drama of a suicidal composer into a global drama of a generic mankind. The Golovanov’s Pathetique is very none-specific and I would say that it is has little to do with the Tchaikovsky’s impressionism. It rather sound like a very different work with very different massage. I would still do not call the Golovanov’s Pathetique is the best Pathetique ever. However, among the best Pathetiques the Golovanov’s version stay very much aside from anything else. The Golovanov’s version is hardly Tchaikovsky’s symphony but rather Golovanov’s own re-composition…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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