Definitely a matter of taste...some like Rubinstein while I don't...Generally the best way to ruin Chopin imo is too much pedal and too much sentimentality...
#Gatekeepers of Chopin: "Real Chopin playing is retrained, too much sentimentality is bad! Also careful on the pedal!!!!!!"Meanwhile one of the most recognized interpreters are Cortot, Argerich, and Sofrotnisky. All of whom enjoyed to pedal and sentimentalize the crap out of Chopin. inb4 maybe that's why i don't like themif you don't your taste is wrong.
lmao if you don't like cortot you don't like piano or chopin's music, period.
good Chopin is generally less than 3 minutes long, beyond d that it's just gets boring and that's assuming it's one of the less boring works to begin with.
I'm curious mjames... which recording of the ballad op 52 do you like better, Cortot's or Friedman's? I'm sure both are in YT...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHow can you not like this?? FREAKING POETRY MAN. CORTOT IS THE MAN.
Fun fact "Chopin haters" or [insert any popular composer here] usually dislike him not because they don't think the music's of high quality, it's because they've listened to them 500000000000000000000 times.Here's a secret: stop listening to 50000 people play the same piece and you'll never get tired of the "popular" composers. I rarely listen to music i know these days and it works wonders with keeping them fresh and interesting. That's right, I don't listen to Chopin lol.(only on occasion)AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHow can you not like this?? FREAKING POETRY MAN. CORTOT IS THE MAN.Nvm after listening to it again Cortot>>>>>>>>FriedmannFriedmann's still ight tho.
lol who's hating? I specifically acknowledged there's good Chopin out there and I do like some. I just do see or enjoy it in large quantities or view it as the be all end all of good writing and pinnacle of music for our instrument.I've specifically said multiple times in past I love the mazurka as a whole a lot and I think they're his best music , and the preludes too. a few etudes and bits and chunks of larger scale works. ie tjlhe first ballade, intro is dope and the code too, the middle 40 percent or so, not so muchthe trio, that one is jiggy, has great replace value , as does the cello sonata and I do have a favorite piece, that little a major half page prelude is one of the most perfect little under 1 minute pieces ever .
"Chopin's only good if its less than 3mins long" is definitely not praise, especially when you have a history of hating on "popular" composers. Sonata no. 3, 4th ballade, grand polonaise, the rondos, scherzi, barcarolle, polonaises...aren't "good" lolOkay.8
Imagine passing on the b minor sonata or the barcarolle...Will praise Hummel concertos and thalberg but will crap on grand polonaise brillante or the concerti. lmao I don't understand you guys at all
great composers had bad days , the Tchaikovsky sonata, and parts of what could have been epic concert fantasia can attest as much. Similar w the Grieg sonata, lots of examples in the literature of greatness embodied producing a turd of a work
The sonata no.3, barcarolle, ballades, scherzi are hardly "turds" or "bad days" though, they're the pinnacle of his music.
Topic: Chopin - What is "good" Chopin? 