Berlin makes Very British album

fflambeau says:

Glenn Gould was not from Germany but he played some very good Bach. CARLOS Kleiber was born in South America as was Claudio Arrau; No problem; they could and did play most any kind of music. Riccardo Muti is Italian and makes a living, mostly, in Chicago; yet, I think he has conducted more Vienna New Year’s celebrations than anyone. That means lots of Viennese music. He doesn’t have any Viennese blood that I know of. Georg Friedrich Handel was born in Germany but was Britain’s highest paid composer at the time. Yannick is also Canadian but seems able to conduct music from many places, mostly from people who were not Canadians. Eugene Ormandy was Hungarian but that did not stop him from making beautiful music from the likes of Debussy. Ditto for the Dude , a South American who has conducted some really good Mahler as has Andris, the Scandinavian. Alan Hovhaness was an American but his music doesn’t sound like it. (In fact, some of it doesn’t sound like Earth music at all which is probably why Carl Sagan used so much of it in Cosmos.) Let’s face it; most musicians have a multi-cultural heritage and attend schools that have musicians and teachers from all over the world. Music is an international thing.