(though I'm sure you play this particular piece even better than Horowitz could have)
You can hear this is a live recording, since there are small note errors throughout
I didn't quite like the rise and falls of the LH figures in the introduction (which started too loud imo), it gets tiresome for me when I hear it pretty much throughout the entire piece.
Marik is one of these masters. A pianist can only serve one God. Most, like Lostinidlewonder, choose to serve Pedantry.
It is more tasteful IN MY OPINION to display control rather than your own ideas.
In my own playing I could overdo expression all over the place, I could play music any way I wished, but I choose control over my own made up ideas of how the music should sound like.
Calling a stirringly executed performance "distasteful" is the common refrain of the jealous and the uncreative.
Pianostreet never fails to deliver these juicy altercations. More, more!
In short I am offended by the patronizing tone of your comments, and strongly doubt your competence to produce anything even remotely comparable to the performance of the original poster.
I think I have already apologized for making you tired and bored for those rises and falls, and expressed my feeling of their absolute neccessaty for this music, whether the score (in your opinion) asks for it or not. Moreover, in this particular case I don't really care what the score asks for, as in my mind the music ITSELF asks for those rises and falls, whether you like it or not.
What you are trying to present as a matter of lack of control, for me is a matter of essential of this music. What you call and believe as "lack of control", in fact for me is something that I have been practicing and cultivating for a long time--if you were playing the piece you'd know how hard it is.
You don't like it--fine--the fact itself you noticed those "rises and falls" means I did not waste my time.
As a side note, I believe the Waldesrauchen Etude in this respect is something completely different.
You don't have to apologize to me, you have already answered that you do not care what the score asks for so we can leave it there.It would be useless to start an argument that I haven't played this piece myself. Certainly I could say that playing with rises and falls masks the deeper expression of this piece. Because you distract people with these rises and falls instead of depicting a more gradual breathing like effect to your music I feel that the overall control of the music is lesser. Its not to say that you are bad, its just that I believe it takes more control to play it as the score asks for than to put in what we think is right.I didn't say you wasted your time or possessed a deep dislike for the way you played at all. I dislike it if I think of it critically, this is hardly something we do when we listen for enjoyment, but you posted this MP3 to get critique I am sure, not to have people say, ooo thats lovely.This is opinion without evidence to support it. I highlighted the fact that you can naturally want to rise and fall in sound in this piece where you must act against it to produce a more controlled sound. Just like you can natrually rise and fall in sound with this Rach.
Hi Daniel,Yes, of course I use pedal in many different ways in Debussy--half pedals, flutter pedal, sostenuto pedal for organ pedal points (not available on Debussy's Bechstein piano in his day), etc. There again, it points out the implicit choices available to the pianist in the absence of specific notation, and marik's reasoned decision to apply contour dynamics in the Moment above. Just my opinion.David
Wow very good I love the recording and the way you handle the song.
A song? Where?
Can't you clearly see the melody and accompaniment differentiated?
Dear Marik,Any chance of posting a rec of the Weber/Tausig. There are a distinct lack of recordings of this masterpiece.Thal