Originally posted by JasonPalmer
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Lunchtime Concerts one stop shop
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Originally posted by JasonPalmer View PostWell today it started with bach, now we have some indian music. Well....i did not expect that, still, all good when you have an hour to kill,.
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Just remembered, half way through, to tune in to Mariam Batashvili's lunchtime concert from last Monday (29 May) - Liszt, Chopin, Schubert - highly recommended by Martin Handley* who was on presenter duty there.
Edit: *He confessed to an ambivalence about Liszt's music (which I share) but added something about this being a convincing perormance....
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I have to get this off my chest but I really don’t like Pletnev’s Chopin playing in this live Edinburgh recital.
The slow tempi in the Bacarolle , the over the top agogics. The ludicrous right hand staccato in the main theme of the Polonaise Fantasie. It’s all very virtuosic and a massive piano sound but it sounds too much like Rachmaninov (piano music not his playing ) for me. Every so often there’s some wonderful phrasing but it’s all too pulled about and lacking in rhythmic drive.
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Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
Yes, what on earth was all that about??
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
I just know. I lost count of the number of times his performance flew in the face of Chopin’s instructions - chiefly in the matter of tempo indication. I’m not sure he even played the Polonaise rhythm correctly. On the plus side his two nocturnes were fine.
Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...
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Poorest Chopin playing I've heard was at a Snape recital given by Andnes some years ago. He seemed utterly unengaged and wanting to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible. I suppose all artists have off-days. Contrast a recital by Steven Osborne at the same venue around the same time that confirmed Steven as an extraordinary musician and one of my favourite pianists.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostThis Paul Lewis performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto scaled down for string quartet is very , very good indeed . Exceptionally refined playing and , in the confines of the Wigmore Hall , no need to hammer the keys - not that a player of his quality ever does.
I must catch up with this Paul Lewis performance.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostThis Paul Lewis performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto scaled down for string quartet is very , very good indeed . Exceptionally refined playing and , in the confines of the Wigmore Hall , no need to hammer the keys - not that a player of his quality ever does.
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