K_A op. 1. Mozart. Symphony No 35. Pierre Monteux
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Symphony No 35 in D major, K. 385 (Symphony Haffner). 1782.
NDR Symphony Orquestra (Hamburg). Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
Turnabout-Great Performances on Vox. The Moss Music Group. Inc. New York.
Video recorded at Bar Valdesogo, León, november 2013.This audition was part of
Tres acciones más, in the working process of
Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, with Silvia Zayas and Nilo Gallego.
In this first audition Katsunori Nishimura introduces us to the auditions after an explanation that reflects on the music recording technologies, and for that he bases on Mozart Symphony No 35, played under the conducting of the French Pierre Monteux (1875-1964). Pierre Monteux disliked recording, saying of studio sessions: “You may give an excellently played, genuinely felt performance of a movement, but because the engineer is not satisfied because there is some rustling at one point, so you do it again and this time something else goes wrong. By the time you get a “perfect” take of the recording the players are bored, the conductor is bored, and the performance is lifeless and boring. … I detest all my own records”. In Monteux’s lifetime it was rare for record companies to issue recordings of live concerts, although Monteux would much have preferred it, he said, “if one could record in one take in normal concert-hall conditions”
(Pierre Monteux discography).