12 Nov 2008

His Godunov just isn't good enough

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/12/btboris112.xml

Rupert Christiansen [The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 2008]

“The composer’s original thoughts” are a sacred commodity in music today, a crucial aspect of the fetishistic worship of “authenticity”. But sometimes one wishes that his revisions, corrections and mature reflections would be given their due, too.