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Entry: Right From the Beginning Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/right_from_the_beginning#22803 Post contents: Boyd, Yes, I'm very well aware of the personal history of Furtwängler, and I, as I mentioned, I'm a big fan. But no, you won't convince that Knappertsbusch is any good, although perhaps I'd change my mind if I heard him during the "New Bayreuth" days and Wieland Wagner's brilliant productions. I also must say, Boulez's conducting of the 1976 Ring, which I've seen on video, is obviously obsessively modernistic, but then sometimes the really fast, hard-driving pace can make things exciting. I generally can't stand Boulez's own compositions, but then his weird, "wrong" readings of Wagner were just crazy enough to work. How did we start talking about conductors again? I guess we need to stay on topic or I'll have to start censuring these comments... Sent at: 2008 10 11