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I split Chopin interpretation into three main groups, tell me which one you like the most.

Emotional, "Heart on Sleeve", e.x. Rubinstein: 31 (68.9%)
Clear and restrained, e.x. Pollini: 6 (13.3%)
Very fast and technically precise, e.x. Cziffra: 3 (6.7%)
other: 5 (11.1%)

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contrapunctus

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on: April 04, 2006, 02:29:19 AM

Pick an option.

For me, it really depends on what mood I am in and what piece is being performed, so this is just what do you like generally?

I would have to say Pollini for me.

Please comment.

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lisztisforkids

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Reply #1 on: April 04, 2006, 04:31:15 AM

Well, its all of these.

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Reply #2 on: December 04, 2006, 03:24:52 AM

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"
True, but who sure there are a place called heaven.
Are you sure??

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kelly_kelly

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Reply #3 on: February 03, 2007, 02:28:46 AM

I really think it depends on the passage in questions- some need clarity, others need emothion, still others require pyrotechnics...

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soliloquy

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Reply #4 on: February 03, 2007, 07:22:29 AM

Chopin said the favorite interpreter of his works was Liszt. I have to say I get bored of people trying to "under-do" it because everyone thinks you have to play Chopin like a 13 year old chinese girl. Chopin should be played with passion and fire.

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rach n bach

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Reply #5 on: February 03, 2007, 07:51:43 AM

Fire is right!!!

Chopin needs to be played with a great depth of feeling to really understand the music.
Yea, clarity is needed, or it can become quite messy, but Chopin should not be played like you were sitting at a typewriter...

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Reply #6 on: February 09, 2007, 10:59:33 AM

Quote from: soliloquy on February 03, 2007, 07:22:29 AM

Chopin should be played with passion and fire.

Why? Well, quite simply, because Chopin's music possesses ample passion and fire in many cases. Years ago, Sorabji used to complain about the once-fashionable effeminate style of Chopin playing that he encapsulated with the phrase "drawing-room-languishing Chopin"; I think that this turned him off a great number of Chopin performances in his day - and quite understandably so. No one in his/her right mind wants to hear "typewriter Chopin", of course, but while Chopin's works are rarely on a really large scale, he often packs a massive amount of material, both intellectual and emotional, within short spaces of time, so his work requires performers with great passion and control and a powerful sense of structure and drama. Given how firmly established Chopin's piano works are in the repertoire, it is perhaps surprising that the number of Chopin pianists that really come up to the mark in all departments is quite limited.

Best,

Alistair

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Reply #7 on: February 09, 2007, 11:17:33 AM

I like Rubinstein very much, but he is not the type of pianist, I would call "emotional".

Cortot, Richter, Gilels or Pogorelich are emotional, Rubinstein is sporty.

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