Pierre-Laurent Aimard: an Etude too far?

[Richard Tarleton]

They are marvellous pieces aren't they RT? Vertiginously virtuosic. A real high wire act. No doubt you've already snapped up P-LA's Sony Classical coupling of the Etudes with the relatively lightweight Musica Ricercata?

I have now - cheaper on Amazon than by the River Alde

[Lento]

Small doses on CD might be the way in for me!

[arthroceph]

A while back I listened a few time over to Ligeti's Lontano ... probably because I liked the the title ..unfortunately it's yet to click, but I did do a Youtube search and came up with the illuminating Jeremy Denk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslIcmVdIa8

Here he talks about the Warsaw Étude which I recognised in the Aimard recital, this sort of recognition, breif though it si, helps break up the - dar I say it - monotony - but it also allow you to see - given enough listens- that it could very well be entertaining at some point.
In any case,he's one of the world' s top pianists right now, so it's better to listen attentively, so that if you dislike, yoyu can (try ) to defend yourself to some small degree of self-centered satisfaction.
BTW Kudos Mr. Tarleton .. I wondered why the audience took such age to clap!

[Lento]

A while back I listened a few time over to Ligeti's Lontano ... I did do a Youtube search and came up with the illuminating Jeremy Denk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslIcmVdIa8Here he talks about the Warsaw Étude

Link much appreciated! Makes me thinks of the "metronome piece" with its idea of varying rates of movement going on simultaneously.