Schumann - Kinderszenen Nr. 1: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Nr. 2: Kuriose Geschichte Nr. 3: Hasche-Mann Nr. 4: Bittendes Kind Nr. 5: Glückes genug
I could listen to Murray talk about music all day. His structural observations--he notices EVERYTHING--are as great as his tasteful, super subtle phrasing.
Many years ago I sent Murray Perahia a bunch of piano music that I thought he might enjoy reading through. I never heard back from him, so it's possible that the firm managing him never got the music to him, or maybe the music wasn't of much interest to him. Or it's possible that the music was too simple to be engaging, being just part of the collection of an amateur "home pianist." (Speaking of which, one of the pieces was a piece my father had had around the piano at home for ages and which he sometimes played--"Invention," by Mark Nevin. It's a very clever and fun (at least to me) piece that basically turns "Yankee Doodle" into a two-page Bach "Invention." I think the piece might still be available in a collection of various works by Mark Nevin.) In the years since we've had the blossoming of the Internet, and all these wonderful music videos on RU-vid. And every time I click on a Murray Perahia video and hear him speak, I can't help but admire and love him. He is so sincere and so clearly in love with the music he plays, and he is always doing his best to understand the music that he loves and performs. And he never talks to his master class students as if "from on high," but rather as someone who just wants to share his thoughts and feelings about the music that he knows. I continue to take great pleasure from his "Aldeburgh" recital CD, a terrific recital! And I have an old LP of Murray Perahia playing the Chopin B-minor and B-flat minor Sonatas, a fantastic recording. His playing of the first movement of the B-flat minor Sonata is for me perfect. I've tried to play that movement for many years and I find it all but impossible to even get through all the notes accurately much less play with the perfection that M.P. achieves on his Chopin Sonatas recording!
As always a wonderful teacher....and one of my 3 fav pianists....btw, though i agree with him about not playing it too slowly, that is still how i love this piece Annie Fischer and also Barenboim's versions.
I don't understand he says there's no indication of tempo such as allegro, or andante - but there's a metronome marking. Isn't that the most precise way a tempo can be indicated? confused
