
( , Mon 30 May 2011, 3:00, archived)

my post was just a wordless question like "did you listen to that pascal rogé album yet?"
:P
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:37,
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:P

I think like you I've grown to love the version I owned first. Others sound good, but never quite right, you know?
I think like lots of other interpreters, Rogé tries too hard to inject feeling into the pieces. I prefer Ciccolini's more transparent performances because I feel they allow the music to speak more for itself.
Haha check out the top comment under the video I posted. It's way too harsh but it does pretty much sum up how I feel.
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:41,
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I think like lots of other interpreters, Rogé tries too hard to inject feeling into the pieces. I prefer Ciccolini's more transparent performances because I feel they allow the music to speak more for itself.
Haha check out the top comment under the video I posted. It's way too harsh but it does pretty much sum up how I feel.

It wasn't a synthesiser (it was PCM, and thank fuck that died), but it had a pseudo-analogue pitch-bend joystick thingy.
He called it the 'feeling wheel'. Which he used liberally to add 'feeling' to whatever he was playing. And, to him, the faster you could play, the better a musician you were.
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:51,
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He called it the 'feeling wheel'. Which he used liberally to add 'feeling' to whatever he was playing. And, to him, the faster you could play, the better a musician you were.

Some performances turns into porno for sure but as my good friend who plays very difficult bach stuff says it's impossible not to add some kind of personal touch to what it might be...
And he's very pedantic about how things sounds "right"
Check out his idiosyncrasies if you like: www.youtube.com/user/clau2138
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:52,
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And he's very pedantic about how things sounds "right"
Check out his idiosyncrasies if you like: www.youtube.com/user/clau2138

I think Ciccolini adds a lot of feeling, but with a lightness of touch. The guy who says about "Captain Kirk style rubato" made me laugh. Like I said, too harsh, but I know what he's getting at.
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:57,
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and all the bright eggheads thinks he's one of the most competent and precise Bach interpreters ever but personally i can't stand his mechanical style and the fact that he's making these enervating goat sounds on virtually all of his recordings
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Mon 30 May 2011, 4:05,
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Hella good chops but very distracting performances.
edit: And as you say a bit stiff, but they should be played fairly rigidly--IMO.
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Mon 30 May 2011, 4:11,
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edit: And as you say a bit stiff, but they should be played fairly rigidly--IMO.

but it beats me why they didn't gaffa taped him during recordings
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Mon 30 May 2011, 4:15,
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Sing along kids, you all know the words
"MNennnngg mmmm HNggggg MMmmmmHgggg"
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Mon 30 May 2011, 4:18,
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"MNennnngg mmmm HNggggg MMmmmmHgggg"

There's a man who really gives a damn about what's important (in this case, the music), and doesn't give a damn about anything else (in this case, anything else).
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Mon 30 May 2011, 5:35,
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...and no, i couldn't watch it all
:D
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:13,
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:D

I got stuck around 0:26, when they do that manic stomping back-and-forth. I watched that part lots of times.
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:17,
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my wife admitted to being slightly impressed by the creativity of my abusive language while driving. After a short silence during which I felt very proud of myself, she suddenly exclaimed, "DONKEY CUNT"
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:20,
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fuck a duck (he got it from Gramma)
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:28,
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i was pleased
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:34,
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Sauce bottle frustration makes swearing utterly permissible.
Mind you, the first time I swore in front of my dad*, I got a punch in the gob. Which made me sure that swearing is a highly valuable thing.
*could tell you about it, but it's hardly a thriller
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Mon 30 May 2011, 3:40,
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Mind you, the first time I swore in front of my dad*, I got a punch in the gob. Which made me sure that swearing is a highly valuable thing.
*could tell you about it, but it's hardly a thriller