Peter Taussig

[BoliverAllmon]

What do you think of this pianist? I just heard that he was recording the complete piano works by Bach. It is going to be an 18 cd set. Quite impressive, but not sure on the quality of is playing.

boliver

[cziffra]

i have always wondered how much music for keyboard bach wrote- 18 cds, eh?  doesn't match liszt's ouevre, but i guess that's totally irrelevant and stupid.  

[eddie92099]

Arrau covered it all in 12 recitals,
Ed

[meiting]

Don't be fooled. He's not "playing" the pieces. He's recording them on the disklavier. I met him a couple of months ago, because disklaviers are a yamaha product, and I was also on the spot on CNN south america that he was on. Basically, what he is doing, is taking everything Bach wrote, and inputs it into the computer by midi, and then playing it back using the disklavier. The caveat here, is that he says he's doing it in a way that he'd never play it, or, in other words, he'd never play the way he's "arranging". Now, unfortunately, he's only using the disklavier standard format, and not XP, which means it's not so detailed.

Personally, i would not want to encourage this kind of thing When you can do the complete Bach works on the computer and the disklavier in under a year, that's just.. wrong.

[cziffra]

bach would have been delighted with a machine playing his stuff!  

why on earth would you bother with a project like that?  that's ridiculous

[BoliverAllmon]

Then it sounds like a complete waste of money.

boliver

[meiting]

Oh it is. i was horrified when I saw the project. The worst part is that someone else could do exactly the same thing and do it better. But then that raises a philosophical question: should one attempt to create the "ultimate" performance, if such a thing should exist, with the help of technology? And is that still a "performance"?

[thracozaag]

Oh it is. i was horrified when I saw the project. The worst part is that someone else could do exactly the same thing and do it better. But then that raises a philosophical question: should one attempt to create the "ultimate" performance, if such a thing should exist, with the help of technology? And is that still a "performance"?

 The Argerich performance of the Rach 3 is billed as the "ultimate".

[meiting]

Jeez. People should know better than that.

[eddie92099]

I wouldn't call it the "ultimate", but only because I don't think the ultimate can exist. It's pretty good though, isn't it?!
Ed