Paavo Järvi's GRANDIOSE B.S. "Solution" to Beethoven's Metronome Problem.

One would expect intelligent musicians to act carefully when asked the question what to do with Beethoven's (too) fast metronome marks. Especially when you, like Paavo Järvi, are considered to be an authoritative voice in the fascinating field of Beethoven's metronome marks and thus know that what you will answer definitely will impact people's way of thinking.
And Järvi did reflect on the issue in preparation for the interview. Only not in a way one would expect from influential musicians of his level. It's hard to imagine someone as intellectual as Järvi to not realize his metronome "solution" doesn't even slightly touch any taste of reality.
Contributions like this do not help the conversation and simply deserve to be called what they are.

The only solution to his, and many other 19th century metronome marks is to read them in -what we believe - was the old way: in Whole Beat. In this reading, like the pendulum is still used today by physicians, the metronome ticks indicate the subdivision of the note value in the metronome mark. So you end up counting like one AND two AND three AND... That results in a different tempo yes, but a tempo that exactly matches the metronome mark given by the composer. In our current reading of these metronome marks, we are not able to do that for the simple reason most are way too fast. A logical consequence from actually doubling (yes) the intended tempo. New to the WBMP? Start here:    • How Fast did Beethoven and Chopin rea...  

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The quote in this video is taken from:    • No Precise Tempo Without Beethoven? |...  
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