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Best Seventh Symphony --Like a Suetin Plate, January 26, 2011
Malko's reading of the Prokofiev Seventh Symphony show some of the most profound insights into the man's genius. He gives it a kind of emotional, yet architectonic quality, while somehow maintaining a put-on Soviet edge. Yet this performance is very deep not the least bit campy. Amazing. It is so sublime it reminds me of a gorgeously sublime Suetin porcelain plate, like the one from the thirties we purchased a while ago. This is the kind of Soviet aesthetic production I enjoy. Not the blunt "man with hammer" type of sculpture which idiots like the Beckster claim to have have on their desks, showing how cool they are and how informed about the cultural valences of political notions rejected by history. It takes more than tschotsckes to understand history.
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