very good!my post was just a wordless question like "did you listen to that pascal rogé album yet?"
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Kaiser,
Mon 30 May 2011, 3:37,
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I did indeed.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.
(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.
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Mon 30 May 2011, 3:41,
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A mate I had when I was a kid had an expensive Yamaha electronic keyboard.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.
(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.
Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace,
Mon 30 May 2011, 3:51,
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That thing about being 100% neutral is bullshit imoSome 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
(And he's very pedantic about how things sounds "right"
Check out his idiosyncrasies if you like: www.youtube.com/user/clau2138
Kaiser,
Mon 30 May 2011, 3:52,
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Yeah of course there's no such thing as neutral unless you program the notes into a sequencer.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.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Mon 30 May 2011, 3:57,
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Glenn Gould was a kind of a human sequencerand 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
( Kaiser,
Mon 30 May 2011, 4:05,
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^thisHella good chops but very distracting performances.
edit: And as you say a bit stiff, but they should be played fairly rigidly--IMO.
(edit: And as you say a bit stiff, but they should be played fairly rigidly--IMO.
Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Mon 30 May 2011, 4:11,
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They should be played precise indeedbut it beats me why they didn't gaffa taped him during recordings
( Kaiser,
Mon 30 May 2011, 4:15,
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"enervating goat sounds" HAHAHAHAthis I have to hear.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Mon 30 May 2011, 4:11,
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HahahaSing along kids, you all know the words
"MNennnngg mmmm HNggggg MMmmmmHgggg"
("MNennnngg mmmm HNggggg MMmmmmHgggg"
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Mon 30 May 2011, 4:18,
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I really, REALLY like that.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).
( Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace,
Mon 30 May 2011, 5:35,
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