I listened to Hilary Hahn playing Goldmark on a recent Chicago Symphony broadcast.
It's a pity this type of playing sets the standard today. Execution is not the issue, it rarely is on large stages today. It's musical expression that is lacking. Note follows note, undifferentiated, uninflected, with the same mechanical vibrato applied to each. Even in a scant piece like this, are their no opportunities to offer opinions on note groupings, phrases, dynamic shadings? Does the soloist have an opinion on where phrases, sentences and paragraphs might begin and end even in this sing-songy ditty? Possibly not. Such is the state of the art.
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