Jollying Up Beethoven
JS It really so very imporx tant to have produced a Mozart performance in which an attempt is made to do everything “as it was done then?" Especially the thing which we can no longer do. Of course, it is fascinating to know and, sometimes, we may find ourselves shocked into more than mere respect. But one has to know where to draw the line. No-one would, I take it wish to revive the tradition of performaning the Beethoven Violin Concerto as it was done at its first performance, that is to say with a pause for the insertion of more entertaining small pieces after the first movement, in order not to tire the audience with too much thinking.—Benjamin Frankel.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 13
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