{"id":8190,"date":"2016-10-27T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:39:12","slug":"murray-perahias-major-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/murray-perahias-major-transfer-8190\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray Perahia&#8217;s Major Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On October 7 Murray Perahia released his first album for Deutsche Grammophon presenting Bach\u2019 French Suites. He sees the French Suites as \u201cBach on the highest level\u201d, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think Bach wrote one note that didn\u2019t have wider meanings and that wasn\u2019t to be tackled with all one\u2019s heart and soul.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2qTy81aaqAM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Perahia joins Deutsche Grammophon<\/h2>\n<p>Imagine if Cal Ripken Jr. decided, late in his career, to leave the Baltimore Orioles and go to the Yankees. Imagine Pele playing for Portugal instead of Brazil. Those are the sports equivalents of Murray Perahia moving to Deutsche Grammophon from Sony. For more than four decades, Perahia had been loyal to both Sony and its predecessor, Columbia Masterworks. He\u2019d recorded almost all of the Classical and Romantic periods\u2019 biggest composers: Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart. He even did several Bach recordings.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, could prompt such a fantastic and loyal artist to switch labels after such a long time? To begin with, Perahia has deep-seated genealogical roots. His family descends from the Iberian Jews who were exiled from Spain by the Moors in the Middle Ages. In fact, he spoke only Ladino when he was a boy. He has a similar connection to music. His musical ideas and ideals, developed from a career spanning six decades, are both deeply felt and colorfully presented. His interpretations of many legendary works are seen as standard-setting, yet their scope and emotional impact are varied. In much the same way as the Iberian Jews adjusted to life in the Diaspora, starting new traditions and developing new societies, Perahia likely wants to blaze new musical trails through familiar ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/perahia-dg-430.jpg\" title=\"Murray Perahia plays Bach\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"100%\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Grammophon, for example, has hinted that the London-based virtuoso plans to revisit works he\u2019s recorded in the past. Both they and he are excited about the prospect of re-interpreting Classical and Romantic masterworks through the application of a lifetime\u2019s worth of experiences that are tempered with Perahia\u2019s historical roots and perspective. Perahia contemplates each project thoughtfully and comprehensively, sometimes studying four or five different editions and scores of the same piece to glean varying perspectives before forming his own ideas. By moving to Deutsche Grammophon, Perahia probably seeks new musical canvasses to fill, which he could no longer do with Sony because he considered his work with them finished. In much the same way as he studies separate copies of the same piece, he will present new interpretations of pieces he recorded previously. To him, such a shift is part of a spiritual journey, and what went before is not to be superseded. Rather, both the old and the new will be considered part of the same whole. He said in a recent interview, &#8220;It\u2019s very spiritual. Beethoven was a believer in God,&#8221; hinting that his journey will be also be part of the musical firmament.<br \/>\nRead more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gramophone.co.uk\/classical-music-news\/murray-perahia-signs-to-dg-after-43-years-with-sony\" target=\"_blank\">gramophone.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/culture\/music\/article\/2024557\/how-pianist-murray-perahia-seeks-out-message-music-he-plays\" target=\"_blank\">interview in SCMP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7 Murray Perahia released his first album for Deutsche Grammophon presenting Bach\u2019 French Suites. He sees the French Suites as \u201cBach on the highest level\u201d, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think Bach wrote one note that didn\u2019t have wider meanings and that wasn\u2019t to be tackled with all one\u2019s heart and soul.\u201d Perahia joins Deutsche Grammophon Imagine if Cal Ripken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Murray Perahia&#039;s Major Transfer - Piano Street Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/murray-perahias-major-transfer-8190\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murray Perahia&#039;s Major Transfer - Piano Street Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On October 7 Murray Perahia released his first album for Deutsche Grammophon presenting Bach\u2019 French Suites. 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