Who influences your interpretation?

[pokeythepenguin]

[pianisten1989]

Hmmm...

I've always loved the way Dinu Lipatti played Bach, but I really don't try to "copy", or whatever, anyone. But still, he has probably influented my way of playing Bach.. But that's probably it. To be honest, I rarely listen to the pieces I play myself, atleast not anymore. And if I do, I try to listen to atleast 5 different preformers, so I really don't know.... >.<
 

[pianowolfi]

For clarity and elegance: Michelangeli
For Spanish music: Alicia de Larrocha
For polyphony in Rachmaninoff: Scherbakov
For orchestral piano playing in Beethoven: Brendel, early eighties (Yes, you can laugh all you want)
For sincerity and their philosophy to music: Arrau, Kempff
Gilels, Richter, Horowitz. Berezovsky for his stupendous technique and spontanity.
If you would hear this influence in my playing though? I don't know. At least these are some of the persons that I try to learn from and emulate, as you say.

[tds]

old master musicians (not limited to pianists only), life experience, general knowledge, and fine arts. but above all: i learn so very much from NATURE. tds

[go12_3]

Interpreration comes from within us and how we live our lives as we study the pieces and composers.  It's a lifetime process to interpret music.  I just play the music and feel what it's conveying to me.  Music interpretation comes to us in many diverse ways because it's an individual quest that is ongoing.  As what tds, said, "life experience, general knowledge and fine arts...."  and also, "nature."  I agree.  Also, listen to  variety of music because that will influence our interpretation.  = )

[njalli]

Interpreration comes from within us and how we live our lives as we study the pieces and composers.  It's a lifetime process to interpret music.  I just play the music and feel what it's conveying to me.  Music interpretation comes to us in many diverse ways because it's an individual quest that is ongoing.  As what tds, said, "life experience, general knowledge and fine arts...."  and also, "nature."  I agree.  Also, listen to  variety of music because that will influence our interpretation.  = )

i couldnt agree more

everything that needs to be said

[pokeythepenguin]

[go12_3]

For your answer to be applicable to this thread, this means that you would have had to *never, ever* listen to a recording and take a single phrasing or suggestion from it. You do listen to a recording of a variety of music in which I did mention in my post.  Of course, I did mention that we need to listen to a variety of music, in which I here mention in this thread....

Which would be BS.  I sort of specifically said these types of replies would degenerate this thread.

[go12_3]

For your answer to be applicable to this thread, this means that you would have had to *never, ever* listen to a recording and take a single phrasing or suggestion from it.

Which would be BS.  I sort of specifically said these types of replies would degenerate this thread.

Of course, we need to listen to a variety of music  in which I mentioned in my thread....

[scottical]

I have quite a magnitude of artists who have inspired my work.  In interpretation, I've always been quite fond of Mitsuko Uchida.  In technique, Cziffra and Richter have greatly inspired me.  I make use of quite a variety of styles in my compositions.  I have written small pieces ranging from Baroque dances to Romantic concertos. 

Possibly my greatest influence is Maurice Ravel.  He was an innovator, and a master of conveying atmospheres and unconventional sounds through music.  He inspired me to write pieces that emulate various objects and sounds.

[goldentone]

Wolfi mentioned Michelangeli, and he is definitely someone I look up to, and almost revere.  Irish pianist John O' Conor is also a favorite of mine.  I would say aspiring for qualities in pianists we admire does not affect our own self-expression.

[Petter]

Bruce Hornsby, Simone de Beauvoir, Art Garfunkel and Jospeh Goebbels.

[rachmanny]

kristian zimerman´s chopin is great. I prefer to listen to him playing chopin than anyone else, so somehow it gets stuck in me and thats how i want to sound.

also theres berman ,
berezovsky
Gilels

[db05]

Teachers. Listeners' comments. They get to me. 

Otherwise, it's all about what I've been through before. A lot of pop-rock music, and some classical recordings. The idea is that it has to sing, even if it sounds like heavy metal and I'm playing a distorted school piano (ugh). And the more that I listen to more music, the more I can't pinpoint where I get my ideas from. So if that's the answer you expect, sorry.

[iroveashe]

Annie Fischer for spirituality, Glenn Gould for musicality, Richter for dynamics, Zimerman for that soft touch and clearness; I'm also very influenced by masterclasses and documentaries so I should add Andras Schiff and Daniel Barenboim.

[houseofblackleaves]

Watching Valentina Lisitsa perform anything always gets me to practice.

[retrouvailles]

Anyway, just to fit in and get the ball rolling, my direction in music has taken me more to composition, so I will list some of the composers who have most influenced me.


Helmut Lachenmann
Gyorgy Kurtag
Andrei Boucourechliev
Hans-Joachim Hespos
Pascal Dusapin
Henri Dutilleux (solely in orchestral works, randomly)
Sylvano Bussotti

So, what you're trying to say is that your interpretation sounds like a mixture of post-war avantgarde and a sort of neo-impressionist aesthetic, and just hard edged modernism (quite hard to pigeon hole any of these people, actually)? Quite an odd set of interpretative sources (sometimes it just seems like you're just randomly throwing out names). Do you look up to any specific pianists for interpretation?

[peterdacey]

Daniel Barenboim, Iiro Rantala, Jacques Loussier and for my cello playing Paul Tortelier and Jaqueline du Pre

[loonbohol]

I get my interpretation from the influence from the Music articles that I red from Holly Day.

[aewanko]

Sergei Rachmaninoff.

[imbetter]

Go12_3 is right, interpretations need to come from within ourselves.

[scottical]

Go12_3 is right, interpretations need to come from within ourselves.

With that in mind, most people can agree that there is someone who they feel performs the works of a composer the way they think it should be.  Famous pianists are inspired by one another.  It's not a bad thing.

[javacisnotrecognized]

Michelangeli
Gould
Horowitz
Tatum

Collectively they said virtually everything there is to be said.

[pianowolfi]

Michelangeli
Gould
Horowitz
Tatum

Collectively they said virtually everything there is to be said.

While I agree that all of these are pianists worth to be influenced by I don't agree with your conclusion. There are so many more.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Subconsciously: probably every decent pianist I've ever heard.
Semiconsciously: Cziffra, and my frame of mind at the point in time.
Consciously: Mostly me, but sometimes what a teacher has told me (that normally means I've not thought about the piece that much).

[general disarray]

Joyce Hatto. 

She proved that even the world's leading music critics can't distinguish between one pianist and another.

So, why be influenced?  Be informed, be scholarly.  Know yourself.  Then you can influence yourself.

Bollox to the rest.

[point of grace]

prokofieff, debussy, their recordings were good help for me.
also lugansky, lisitsa, kissin, gilels and my imagination 

[fenz]

every great musician, any kind of literature, arts, and nature

[quasimodo]

depends on each piece.

[learner of liszt]

My Liszt playing: Cziffra
Alkan: Gibbons
Rachmaninoff: Rachmaninoff, Horowitz
Gershwin: Gershwin, Gibbons

Also, recently, Gould has had a profound effect on the way I interpret Bach: he brings more music into it than any I've ever heard.

[term]

Usually i do things on my own, but frequent exposure to Goulds bach fugues has probably influenced me a lot.

[gnomus]

went I chose a piece I lisent a lot of intepretaion between 3 to 7 or more, I read everything I can find on my piece, music teacher will help a lot, if you have more than one teacher it's very good.

[tds]

if you have more than one teacher it's very good.

it can be, but not always - it's situational

[quasimodo]

Usually i do things on my own, but frequent exposure to Goulds bach fugues has probably influenced me a lot.

Oh, my poor!

[communist]

Alexis Weissenberg

[don largo]

And nobody guessed Schnabel? 

He influences my understanding even though I cannot even dream of replicating his impeccable cantabile.