Perahia

[cygnusdei]

I don't know what to say about this CD cover.



It's so ......

[michel dvorsky]

I'm sure the playing is just as inspiring.

[michel dvorsky]

[alessandro]

Mh.  Agreed.  It could be saying something about your sense of humour.  Could that cover and in particular the background be a premonitary sign of a hospitalisation ? And if we pursue in this way of medical thinking, that face, is it the face of a living man ? The knot of the tie combined with the corners of the mouth and the right eye, are full of sadness.  I'm indeed also curious about his interpretation of this rocking partita's...

[quantum]

I'd buy that.  From what I heard from the English Suites, this is probably really good.

[slobone]

I love Perahia. But from what I've heard of his Bach so far, I'm not sold on it.

[ramseytheii]

Interesting - it seems Perahia favors the "Victoria" knot for his tie.  The "Victoria" requires two revolutions of the long half around the short half before tying the knot.  In total it requires 6 steps.

It makes the narrow, even-shaped knot that you can see on his tie.  The four-in-hand, the most common knot, tends to produce knots that have sharper corners on top.

I'm a "Cavendish" man myself, a knot that goes one revolution, then through; then another revolution, and through again, for a total of 8 steps.

Walter Ramsey

[sarah the pianist]

Yes is he the new priminister, there is not a single glimpse of a piano

[slobone]

Well, if y'all go into your local record shop next year and find only recordings by hot babes who look good in a bathing suit, you have only yourselves to blame...

[minor9th]

I tend to buy CDs for content, not the covers. Perhahia may not be a GQ model, but he certainly plays well. I just bought his Bach Goldberg Variations (SACD) and new recording of Partitas--both are excellent. I think he'd be terrible in Scriabin, Sorabji, Ligeti, Xenakis, et al, but I thoroughly enjoy his Bach.

[cygnusdei]

I knew about the issue with his thumb (some malignant growth ?) but I thought he recovered from it completely. But apparently it's a chronic thing that goes on relapse and remission. More power to him.

He should fire his stylist though.

[slobone]

I tend to buy CDs for content, not the covers. Perhahia may not be a GQ model, but he certainly plays well. I just bought his Bach Goldberg Variations (SACD) and new recording of Partitas--both are excellent. I think he'd be terrible in Scriabin, Sorabji, Ligeti, Xenakis, et al, but I thoroughly enjoy his Bach.

I've also been listening to his Goldbergs, and I do like them a lot. There's a lot going on in the details of his performance. My only criticism is that he works a little too hard adding ornaments on the repeats. There's a bit too much of it, it gets old.

He's really at his best in Schubert, Schumann, Mozart, Chopin. And Bartok surprisingly. But I once heard him give a really disappointing performance of the Appassionata. So he's not one of those pianists who can do anything...

[mikey6]

So he's not one of those pianists who can do anything...

Ahm, who is exactly?

[piano_ant]

 I have this CD. It's Amazing.

[Kassaa]

I heard this cover is photoshopped, someone who just had a lesson with him said he had like 4 chins o_O

[tds]

I heard this cover is photoshopped, someone who just had a lesson with him said he had like 4 chins o_O

like like...omg

[tds]

or...or..maybe that person had a lesson with perahia's uncle? pizzibly?

[Kassaa]

or...or..maybe that person had a lesson with perahia's uncle? pizzibly?

No.

[cygnusdei]

I heard this cover is photoshopped, someone who just had a lesson with him said he had like 4 chins o_O

Now that you mentioned it, he appears to be sporting a 2 o'clock shadow. 

[iumonito]

Interesting - it seems Perahia favors the "Victoria" knot for his tie.  The "Victoria" requires two revolutions of the long half around the short half before tying the knot.  In total it requires 6 steps.

It makes the narrow, even-shaped knot that you can see on his tie.  The four-in-hand, the most common knot, tends to produce knots that have sharper corners on top.

I'm a "Cavendish" man myself, a knot that goes one revolution, then through; then another revolution, and through again, for a total of 8 steps.

Walter Ramsey

You know, that would make a lot of sense from a gemmatria point of view, except that this recording is only of 3 of the 6 partitas.  I am sure if he was playing the Martin preludes he would have done a Cavendish.

But then, his integrale of the Mozart concertos (my, that was SO long ago) would have required some serious pretzel of a tie knot.

[ramseytheii]

You know, that would make a lot of sense from a gemmatria point of view, except that this recording is only of 3 of the 6 partitas.  I am sure if he was playing the Martin preludes he would have done a Cavendish.

But then, his integrale of the Mozart concertos (my, that was SO long ago) would have required some serious pretzel of a tie knot.

Thanks, I'm glad someone finally replied to my knot trivia.  I have to check a source, but I think the maximum moves for a unique tie knot are 9.  The Cavendish is right on the edge of acceptability, and it's not in style these days; it's more if you were going to conduct Elgar in the gazebo with a wind band.

The Victoria would be in style if people knew how to do it (it's easy, just not in common knowledge).  People these days wear all kinds of different stylish ties, in all the same monotonous knots.  If anyone here gets into the style of narrow ties, I recommend either the Victoria, a 6 move knot, which complements the tube-like nature of narrow ties, or the Oriental, a three move knot, which makes a sort of miniature four-in-hand.

Walter Ramsey