I am willing to bet that the nice Mr Beethoven was on his knees with joy after he heard this fantastic Masterclass with such professional gentlemen. Bravo!
Please please, post the rest! I've watched all the other lessons with Lang Lang, Biss (or Bliss), Bax etc. I listen to Barenboim's words as if they came from God. Please please!!
Thank you, yes. And yes, pianists most certainly do get repetitive strain injuries. Usually comes about because the pianist focuse on working individual muscles, rather than concentrating on musical issues (which involves, above all, cultivated *listening* and a fluid rhythm; and as far as physical constituents go, from a failure to focus on *co-ordination* -- of all the relevant body parts (hands, arms, torso, etc
@ReturnOfTheStienway This is really the only recording I have heard of this guy... I might like him more if I heard him play some other works outside of a masterclass session.
lol calm down i was supporting ur comment :P u shouldnt get mad.. and i didnt say music is about "nothing" what i mean is that u must concentrate on what ur doing and let the music flow =) (which depends on many external factors of course, but that makes one concert different from another =)
@Valdinijo That's a very stupid thing to say. Interviewer: You play in the dark? Richter: That's for the sake of concentration, so they listen better. Interviewer: One shouldn't watch? Richter: Watch what? Interviewer: The Performer. Richter: His hands? *Makes disgusted face) No. Interviewer: The expression of his face? Richter: What for? It expresses nothing but work. The work going into the music. Who needs to see that?
I get your point. But I still think that when you perform for an audience, the 'act' has to be right. I'm a classical guitarist, and I've always tried to express the feeling, that lies in the piece. And played it to the audience. Like walking into another dimention, and tell people what's inside. And of course you're right about that it is about the sound. The sound, is what creates the journey. But, I still think the body language also should be right. :)
The only thing u must worry about when u play music its about "NOTHING" just let the music come out! and if ur thinking about the acting ur making something fake, ur ACTING and ur not supossed to act, we're not actors we are musicians. I do express myself with some body languaje when i play but its all UNREHEARSED and spontaneous and most of it im not even thinking of it, i just play and enjoy the music that comes out of me.
how ridiculous, performance in music is not about how good you look, It is about sound. Performance is about how well the work is executed. As long as th results are good, it doesn't matter how they are achieved (in musical performance anyway). A pianist is not an opera singer and is therefore not an actor. I found your comment highly superficial.
@josemariomonzon Andre Watts may make some faces... but his musicianship is out of this world. For the most part, I don't think many of his expressions bother me too much. I would be more interested in seeing this guy perform a long sonata of Schubert, to see his facial expressions in 3x the speed, rather than listening to him. His playing here clearly has passion and thought, but not really my bag. Barenboim's comments are well placed IMHO.
can you read? I just said that it doesn't matter what you look like when you perform music and that a pianist is NOT an actor. and, by the way, music is not about "nothing"- that sounds like something silly John Cage would say.
Zach, I have more I can tell you about this pianist, but privately, not publicly, about this pianist. I was unable to send you a message; evidently you have to invite me as a friend before I can do so...
Parianes plays a Beethoven Sonata like a Debussy Prelude or a Satie Gnossienne which makes absolutely zero sense. Quite the odd, detached performance; one lacking completely in Ludwig's own passion and in this particular sonata's deeply dramatic contrapuntal substance.
Perianes, who can be a superb pianist when he is in his element (in Debussy, for example), doesn't understand this work at all. His playing is girlish, effeminate, though in technical terms he fails to account for the work's world of harmonic conflicts and not least, its rich counterpoint. For him, there is only an insipid melody and a blithe, but useless accompaniment. For those who want to move deeply into this sonata, listen to Ernst Levy.'s great recording of it on the old Unicorn label.
@ReturnOfTheStienway I know he thinks he'll look like a genius but I think he looks ridiculous, Pogorelich, Hamelin and Berezovsky are extremely good pianists and they don't make any faces, Andre Watts makes such dumb faces and I don't think he's nearly as good as the ones I named before.
