Re:Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
by yesenadam on Saturday January 12, 2019 @09:28AM
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Ok thanks, Hi from Australia. Then you didn't mind my bluntness. :-) So.. Do you have a favourite piece, or.. top 3? top 5?
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Re:Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
by vfinn on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:18AM
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Hello. That's an impossible task for me, so I've given up on trying to do that. I can however give you 3 of my latest favorites:
1) Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue In C Minor - BWV 582 by Karl Richter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4PJUOeVYw
2) Vivaldi - Stabat Mater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwvKU4_vaw
3) Bach - Piano Concerto in D Min. BWV 1052 by Polina Osetinskaya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osg_WmeLxQk
Re:Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
by ternaryoperator on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:53PM
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I find Osetinskaya plays so fast that it's difficult to make out the counterpoint. Have a look/listen at Glenn Gould's version, which makes the counterpoint really clear [1]. As you might know, this interpretation was controversial at the time.
Re:Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
by vfinn on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:14AM
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I know Gould (of course) and the piece, he's awesome. Still, I found Osetinskaya's play very precise, delightful, and full of emotion. I did not have any trouble with the speed. One day I prefer Gould, the other this one. It's just like that.
Funny side note: Do you know Gould's So You Want to Write a Fugue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHW1I8T0caI
Re:Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity
by ternaryoperator on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:28PM
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> One day I prefer Gould, the other this one. It's just like that.
Amen to that! I frequently rediscover interpretations upon hearing them anew, which makes me go back and listen to other versions of the same piece again. It's what I love about classical music.
I do indeed known Gould's very clever fugue.