[78-L] Mascagni.

[simmonssomer]

The older one gets, the faster things we see and hear around us seem to 
move. This causes us to slow down.
It's true of driving a car. I'm not sure about leading an orchestra.
But it makes an interesting theory.
Oh Mama!

Al S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spats" <spats47 at ntlworld.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Mascagni.


> Hi!
>
> If that's the tempo that the composer himself wanted, then that's the
> correct tempo, it seems to me.
> Forget the critics! ;-)
>
> I think that Toscanini changed the fashion for tempi, he along with
> the maximum length of 78rpm recordings. Tempi became faster, to get
> everything on one side of the record.
>
> I remember the interest in Mancinelli's slow tempo in Ernani (I think
> it was Ernani, anyhow) as discovered on one of those live cylinders
> from the Met. recorded by Mapleson around 1902. Mancinelli was one of
> the finest conductors of his day and certainly employed slower tempi
> than Toscanini!
>
> Tempi were slower in the 19th century, which is when Cavalleria
> Rusticana was composed!
>
> Earl.
>
> At 12:00 pm -0800 07/12/2008, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>>There's a "Cavalleria Rusticana" conducted by Mascagni himself which has 
>>been
>>panned by almost every critic as being  conducted at a ridiculously slow
>>tempo.
>>One never knows eh?
>>
>>Al S.
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