"The most difficult aspect of a master class, Sebök said, is trying to get a student to an emptiness, a still point, where (s)he can truly hear what (s)he is doing. For him, music had to flow out of the pianist, and in order for that to happen there had to be a quiet center." (From T.E. Carhart's book "The Piano Shop on the Left Bank") Btw, the pianist that is playing here is Ellen Corver.
"Music had to flow out of the pianist, and in order for that to happen there had to be a quiet center". Thank you for sharing this. A quiet center. That inner stillness that must be achieved before music can truly start- I want that, and I am still struggling to achieve it. Will definitely seek Carhart's book.
Is this video for common viewing? for I didn't understand one word of it ;) But I felt that its about feeling the feeling differences and playing that feeling :)
She is 'sentimental' in a sense. Her mind is appropriate for 19th century sentimental music, but not for the Haydn's. Music of Haydn is clear, simple, and straightforward. Sebok tried hard to explain the difference. This kind of issue is very hard to explain. Let's just be *straightforward* when playing Haydn.
And thank goodness it is, in fact, difficult to explain! I just love how great artists negotiate with words, trying so hard to explain. The pedagogical beauty here lies in 'colorful' exchange, rather than being 'precise' with the teaching process.
She doesn't understand anything, too bad. Accent and rubato on the beginning of every bar, and overall the music just sounds like it's played underwater.
@pianopera Sebok is not really teaching anything! He is expressing his own point of view without talking about the elements of performance interpretation very carefully described in the numerous teaching teatises of the time which would have allowed the student to then be able to make her own interpretative choices !!
