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Topic: VIDEO: Aristocrat of the Slums by Michael Sayers (2012 recording)  (Read 1021 times)

Offline michael_sayers

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This recording of it on the Schimmel upright at Västerhaninge kyrka perhaps is too slow, yet somehow it does need to be expressed in a way that is more gritty and more emotionally grinding than back in 2008. Maybe with a grand piano's longer sustain and larger possible maximum size tone it would have sounded better. The indifference in the piano-pianissimo section (compared with the 2008 recording) gives a better resignatory effect; the close of the 2008 recording sounded as though an optimistic emotional closure had been achieved . . . and maybe, at the time, such optimism was needed.



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