martin stadtfeld-what a clown

[aoife mac]

who actually thinks this prentender's Goldbergs are good? what a horrible, self-indulgent, meandering and clumsy mess his performance was. maybe he thinks "hey- if i breath loudly and earnestly while i play no-one will notice my complete lack of comprehension of the the scope of the music i'm playing". I'd love to know whether or not i'm alone in this, last night everyone else seemed to think it was wonderful, then again they were all corporate types with free tickets, hmm.....

[sharon_f]

Wow. I'm guessing you didn't like his performance very much.

[emmdoubleew]

Wow. I'm guessing you didn't like his performance very much.

Sounds like a good guess.

[kreso]

Hey I listened him in Zagreb wiht some orchestra playing at the and of the first half Bach's Concerto in d-minor, and at the begining of the first half Liszt Malediction.
Bach was awful-he played it with too much pedal, sitting almost the same as Glenn Gould, there was now character and it was miserable. The Liszt piece is not great work, it has only technical difficulties, and it was playing for the public. as an encores he played two Bach Busoni Chorales-slow one and fast one. But it was just showing his tecnical skills and there wasn't depth in his playing. So, you can see that he is not so great..
But there is one interesting thing-critics says that his CDs are really good and so on, but when he is in public you can hear that he is nothing specialy...

[aoife mac]

  maybe we should start a support group for anyone who's been unfortunate enough to have seen him in performance. it really annoys me that mediochre pianists achieve that kind of acclaim. Just two weeks ago I decided to go to see Francois Frederic Guy at the last minute. he played Bach, Bartok, Liszt and Beethoven. I've never heard playing that was more unaffected or truthful, it was a spiritual experience!I've never seen a room more captivated-he gave us four encores. the Bach and Lizst were particularly uplifting, yet I had not heard anything particular about him before, not even around the academy. I think its time to apply the age old rule of pop music to real music-if it makes its way to the top of the chart, its more than likely a pile of crap!

[kreso]

maybe we should start a support group for anyone who's been unfortunate enough to have seen him in performance. it really annoys me that mediochre pianists achieve that kind of acclaim. Just two weeks ago I decided to go to see Francois Frederic Guy at the last minute. he played Bach, Bartok, Liszt and Beethoven. I've never heard playing that was more unaffected or truthful, it was a spiritual experience!I've never seen a room more captivated-he gave us four encores. the Bach and Lizst were particularly uplifting, yet I had not heard anything particular about him before, not even around the academy. I think its time to apply the age old rule of pop music to real music-if it makes its way to the top of the chart, its more than likely a pile of crap!

I've raead in one piano magazine few years ago that one critic put Guy's performance of Beethoven sonatas (Hammerklavier and one I canot remember) as the recording of the year, so it speaks about him.. But that's the true-he is not so famous as some other, but he is maybe greater than them.. that's not fair...

[aoife mac]

His Beethoven is wonderful as is his recording of Prokofiev's 6th and 8th sonatas on naive,I was obsessed with Peter Donohoe's Prokofiev but Guy just blows him out of the water! (although Donohoe's Rachmaninoff preludes are complete perfection in my opinion, forget Ashkenazy!)