Interesting...Just switched on the radio, and heard Strauss's Don Quixote. I listened & thought: "I agree with much of what this cellist does. It's not me, tho'; I play it differently. Who can it be?' I looked it up; it was- me + @mn_orchestra /De Waart in 1990! Does one change?
Yes, it is a little different, but still very similar. Both Dirac and Rachmaninov believed that there is a unique ideal way to communicate the meaning of a work of art. When one has gotten as close to that ideal as one can, any change in one's approach can only be for the worse.
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Doesn't apply to music, I feel. A great musician goes deeper and deeper into a work. Same with composers: early/middle Beethoven is perfect, glorious - and then he goes into other worlds.
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I doubt that Rachmaninov would dispute any of this. He would simply maintain that in going deeper and deeper into a work, one is getting closer and closer to its abstract objective essence, whose perfect articulation in performance is the function of the ideal interpreter.
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