Goldberg Variations is a masterpiece.
GN. 🌌💜
Discussion
I prefer unmolested bach
Gould '81 > Gould '56
Gould is atrocious
I said GN.
However, shill me better than Gould.
Horowitz
Rachmaninoff
Cortot
Rubenstein
Gould
Richter
Bronfman
Schiff
Oh gawd, schiff, hate that guy, arrogant bastard (and he trills like an amateur). What are you thinking??
Recency bias, since I listened to the live WTC just now. He has some thoughts, something to say.
That i accept.
He is excellent at interpreting, but technically shit.
Man I would love to grill like that. Or I guess more to the point… drop the WTC from memory in a flawless and interesting live performance.
*trill
Absolutely, but we should hold pianists on the world stage to higher standards, especially on nostr while discussing who is at the top. It's not about what WE can do.
Have you heard this kid, Yunchan Lim?
But also including Cortot I thought technical perfection wasn’t the point. Also he was a nazi collaborator. 🤣
He was fine technically, he just didn't allow errors to get in the way of aiming high. If you care about a slip here and there, you will take less risk, and sound dull.
I heard about the Nazi stuff, no good, but I'm trying to keep that separate to my judgement of his music.
You don't think his playing is on another level?
With respect to Schiff, my criticism of his trill you is not about physical technical perfection, but that his trills SOUND amateur.
Further to the discussion on classical pianists yesterday, do either of you have any recommendations for contemporary classical composers worth listening too - i.e. not interpretations of past masters, but new contemporary compositions in a classical vein? #[3] #[4]
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
reminds me of Wordsworth on poetry:
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Yes that’s Gould btw.
i don’t know much at all about classical music. is Gould a good place to start?
He’s so far outside the mainstream it’s almost a different category. But for me, Gould just clicks like nothing else too. Just type Glenn Gould into YouTube and off you go.
thanks i will