... Well, the number of times he writes ‛don’t drag’, or ‛don’t rush’, that’s always negative: nicht eilen; nicht schleppen. And he was afraid that you – precisely – that with the weight of the emotion, you just exaggerate what he wanted, and that’s exactly that. So, if you are excited you just push the tempo to the maximum, and then the tempo has absolutely no reason to be this quick. And, on the contrary, if you want to expand, if he writes a ritenuto, or a poco ritenuto or a molto ritenuto you do it, because then he wants that. But I mean, if there is simply nicht schleppen, then you cannot really say, well I feel this emotion at this moments, so I must go slower. Because then you have no continuity, and then, especially that’s very important when, for instance, you have not a crescendo, but a crescendo in tempo let’s say, and then you are going from 4/4 with four quarter notes, to 2/2, to two half notes; it should be absolutely without noticing. You have to go from a pulse to another pulse really, without anybody seeing the moment where you are doing that. And that is very important, especially in the 6th, where you have that in the last movement. You have it a couple of times, but you have that quite a lot at the end especially. Sometimes he wants to precipitate the tempo, and so instead of four beats you have two beats, instead of two beats you have one beat, and it’s very important to do that as smoothly as possible – not chopped, but continuous. ...
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