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Another Hammerklavier...

2007-09-18 20:45:00 by Patrick J. Smith in The Penitent Wagnerite
 
...Hammerklavier to op.111. That's a minor gripe, and I suppose you don't have to listen to the discs in order of recording Uchida's Hammerklavier is very nice indeed, though I think that she approaches the sonata in a fairly traditional way. Indeed, of the recordings I have and listen to, she puts me in mind (mind you, for the first few notes)...
 
Tags: hammerklavier, gould, glenn gould, mitsuko uchida, uchida, sonata, piano sonata based, uchida completes, complete set
 
 
 
 
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An Interview with Sarah Palin

2008-10-23 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Hammerklavier Sonata SP: Well, ya know, Beethoven was the dude who said thanks but no thanks to Napoleon. Plus from all the mavericky songs he wrote, maybe this one could be known as the most maverickyest JD: I have to confess Im a bit surprised you are so familiar with this particular work SP: Well, Mr. Snooty Juilliard Graduate, Ill have...
 
Tags: slow movement, archduke slow movement, pro- b-flat major, b-flat major, defend b-flat major, movement, pro-b-flat major, major, wrong
 
 
 
 
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The limits of period performance

2008-01-08 20:39:00 by Patrick J. Smith in The Penitent Wagnerite
 
...Hammerklavier sonata or the wilder runs in the Waldstein . Gardiner manages to be faithful to a contemporary (i.e., of the composer) concept of the orchestral parts, but things don't work out as well with the soloist Now, the argument could be made that the difference between a fortepiano and a full-bore, hell-bent-for-leather Bösendorfer...
 
Tags: performance, performance tradition, hammerklavier sonata, performance traditions sprang, 5th piano concerto, hammerklavier, piano concerto, non-period recordings, recordings
 
 
 
 
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Adjustments!

2008-04-02 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Hammerklavier Sonata upon a slightly too-willing music rack (MY music rack)if you will, a music rack of dubious and oft-purchased virtue What I would like to explore here is the difference between these two states of mind. Myself practicing Chopin on the one hand, and myself practicing Beethoven on the other. My twofold tattered brains. With...
 
Tags: jpc, jpb, jpc sits, jpb resumes, jpb sheepishly, jpc rubs jpbs, jpb extremely, jpc enters, reluctant music rack
 
 
 
 
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A big day at the Beeb

2008-04-10 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Hammerklavier' (which scooped Record of the Year too), Natalie Dessay and Emmanuelle Haim getting a Handel on Il trionfo del Tempo e Disinganno , tenor genius Mark Padmore in more Handel , the Jerusalem Quartet in Shostakovich , Martha Argerich in more Shostakovich , Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites on DVD , and much more And don't forget...
 
Tags: proms launch, proms, proms launch party, time, day, london concert halls, instrumental category shortlist, trionfo del tempo, night
 
 
 
 
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Aimard's Bach

2008-05-22 12:57:00 by Patrick J. Smith in The Penitent Wagnerite
 
...Hammerklavier , from something like 1977 and 1978 respectively in reverse. In Aimard's case (though it's applicable to Pollini, too), one might be afraid of a certain emotional vacuum in his work, given his impeccable modernist credentials. Of course, some facility with Aimard's Ligeti would show that there is plenty of feeling, but...
 
Tags: aimard, bach, pierre-laurent aimard, aimard deserves, aimard discusses, bad bach, aimard falls, solo keyboard music, high-quality bach
 
 
 
 
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Recordings

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2008-06-01 17:00:00 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...Hammerklavier and Appassionata Sonatas . 'I do it because I think its authentic,' he said. 'Its what I think Beethoven would have done. A few years ago, after a concert at Bard College, a musicologist came up to me and told me very sternly that you could do that at parties but not at a concert. Usually people dont hire you at all if they...
 
Tags: music, serial music, 12-tone music, music history, peoples music, perles music, tonal music, riverboatworld music network, rzewski
 
 
 
 
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So I've heard (July 2008)

2008-07-21 20:20:00 by Patrick J. Smith in The Penitent Wagnerite
 
...Hammerklavier , for example, has made pretty significant inroads with me, coming abreast of Gould, but not quite trumping yet) but Schiff makes a convincing case for his interpretation. I don't really have to say that Schiff has clearly devoted a lot of thought to his Beethoven, and the sonatas on this disc are both well-known and...
 
Tags: pretty, pretty slow, pretty comparable, pretty significant inroads, 4th, bruckner 4th, recordings, historical recordings, bruckner
 
 
 
 
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The Op. 111 Club

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2008-10-24 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Hammerklavier haunted Brahms. (Other European pieces deep in my compositional bloodstream include Mahler's Sixth - which turned up in Custer and Sitting Bull - the adagio of Bruckner's Eighth, and Boulez's Rituel .) I've never directly quoted Op. 111 except in my Disklavier piece Petty Larceny , which consists entirely of quotes from the...
 
Tags: postclassical music, music, handle music, movement, two-movement piano concerto, dutch music, sevenths chords, chords, grand hotel
 
 
 
 
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There's always room for

2008-10-29 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Hammerklavier program to Boston. Also: I can't possibly be the first person to notice this, but it's downright uncanny how much Isserlis in performance looks like Roger Daltrey in Tommy
 
Tags: jeremy denk, boston, boston globe, sonata- hammerklavier program, local readers, isserlis, downright uncanny, evel knievel, roger daltrey