Review: Roger Norrington--The Complete Worthless Dreck Edition

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  @graydomn · 3 years ago (edited)

  I wish Dave would learn to communicate his feelings and analysis in a more clear and forceful manner.  :)

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• ST

  @stephenswanson334 · 3 years ago

  True story: I once threw up onto Roger Norrington’s kitchen floor. I was part of a jazz group that had played at a church around the corner from his estate (he held his head in his hands all throughout our set) and for some reason invited us to his home afterwards. I wasn’t going to turn down an invitation to drink wine at Roger Norrington’s home, though I wish I’d handled his beverage offerings better. He made some crack like “Oh, how typical of a jazzer!” <br>I did actually engage him a bit on his vibrato nonsense, but I was young enough at the time that it’s not like he was going to take me seriously (and I had just thrown up on his kitchen floor). And this was before YouTube, where you can just find any video of a 1920s or 1930s orchestra and immediately disprove his unimaginably nonsense that those orchestras did not use vibrato. That said, aside from the vibrato insanity (and his obvious distaste for the music I’d played for him) he was an engaging and gracious host!

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• PO

  @pozsoz · 3 years ago

  I read &quot;Norrington&quot; in the title, then saw the white scarf on the thumbnail and immediately knew what I was getting myself into.

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• PM

  @pmarq32 · 2 years ago

  &quot;the George Santos of conductors&quot;

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• GM

  @gmroberto1967 · 3 years ago

  I just saw the video and went making some popcorn before pressing &quot;play&quot;... 😀

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• DA

  @DavidJohnson-of3vh · 3 years ago

  Halftime in the locker room at the HIP playoffs - Conductor, &quot;Listen up Hanover Band. &nbsp;Second half is with the London Classical Players. &nbsp;You have five minutes to change uniforms!&quot;

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• BE

  @benjamingreenfield9569 · 3 years ago

  George Santos of conductors omg I’m dying that’s amazing. <br><br>Nancy Argenta did fabulous work with Gardiner on various cantatas and the Magnificat, so she’s actually worth hearing elsewhere.

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• PP

  @ppfuchs · 3 years ago (edited)

  His recordings actually got played a lot on local radio stations. This video felt like a cathartic release of having to hear those horrors over the years. You were like the Oracle of Delphi in this video!

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• EL

  @elagabalus-imperator · 3 years ago

  So, I&apos;ve watched this video twice, and I&apos;m still not sure how DH feels about Norrington ... great video!!!

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• TH

  @TheVaughan5 · 3 years ago

  It’s good &nbsp;to hear someone who deplores Norrington as much as I do. &nbsp; I once heard him conduct a Berlioz (one of my favourite composers) &nbsp;overture and have never heard such a travesty. &nbsp; IMO he and his kind came close to destroying classical/romantic &nbsp;music forever.

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• NK

  @nk-gp1ml · 3 years ago (edited)

  No doubt, Gramophone magazine will be awarding Norrington a(nother?) ‘lifetime achievement’ award in 2023 in response to Dave’s review.

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• SA

  @samuelheddle · 3 years ago (edited)

  i actually love a lot of HIP and period instrument performance, even stuff on &quot;bad&quot; sounding instruments. what i really oppose, though, is a) the idea that the evolution of performance practice over the centuries represents a &quot;mistake&quot; rather than a continuing tradition of classical performance, and b) the idea that these people tried to set themselves as standing apart from this tradition. they&apos;re exactly what they accuse the &quot;old&quot; conductors as being- a way classical performance changed over time to reflect the tastes of performers and audiences.<br><br>It&apos;s sort of a postmodern type of performance, with our sometimes dubious obsession with the concept of &quot;authenticity&quot;

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