Over-Egger?
ARIOUS records made by the Vienna Boys’ Choir have at times caused my hackles to rise (no need to mention any items by name, since discriminating listeners will know well enough which ones I refer to) but should they be allowed to get away with it in the case of Bach and Brahms? What is the matter with this,choir? Their blend is all right; their quality can be positively beautiful at times; they never sing: off pitch. The whole thing can be summed up as the sin. of exaggeration. Attacks and releases are super-abrupt; accents are overpointed; subtle nuances of tone become often shrill crescendo or tailing off to infinity-but all done with an automatontouch which immediately makes one visualise the unseen conductor who has trained his young singers to such a pitch that they sound both over-eager and strained. And am I wrong in thinking that in its record of Brahms’s "The Little Sandman" the choir actually sings a phrase which is not supposed to be in the song at all?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 10
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173Over-Egger? New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 10
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