{"id":1680,"date":"2012-02-19T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2012-02-19T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:53:10","slug":"on-the-web-nicely-balanced-performance-of-the-rite-of-spring-led-by-daniel-harding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/02\/19\/on-the-web-nicely-balanced-performance-of-the-rite-of-spring-led-by-daniel-harding\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Web: Nicely balanced performance of The Rite of Spring led by Daniel Harding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1681\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/harding.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1681\" title=\"harding\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/harding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/harding.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/harding-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conductor Daniel Harding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bassoon&#8217;s opening curlicues, so well known, belie the musical m\u00e9l\u00e9e to come in Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s 1913 ballet score, <em>The Rite of Spring<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some conductors give the ensuing music a sharp edge that wants to slash at our earlobes. Others are more gentle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have an opportunity to catch a free, live web stream of excellent performance from 10 days ago, by the orchestra of La Scala, in Milan, conducted by hot 36-year-old Brit, Daniel Harding.<\/p>\n<p>He manages to walk the fine line between edge and sensuality. The close, high-definition camera work actually helps place focus on the details of the piece in a way that sitting in the first balcony never could.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medici.tv\/#\" target=\"_blank\">at medici.tv<\/a>, which has plenty of other delights on offer (registration is easy, and they don&#8217;t sent too many emails afterwards).<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bassoon&#8217;s opening curlicues, so well known, belie the musical m\u00e9l\u00e9e to come in Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s 1913 ballet score, The Rite of Spring. Some conductors give the ensuing music a sharp edge that wants to slash at our earlobes. Others are more gentle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76,19,36,42,60],"tags":[446,948,1900,2515,2849,2995,3152],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/harding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-r6","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}