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The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street

In the pantheon of French music, Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) often seems a paradox—an innovator cloaked in restraint, a Romantic by birth who shaped the contours of modern French music with quiet insistence. Piano Street now provides sheet music for his complete piano works: a body of music that resists spectacle, even as it brims with invention and brilliance. Read more

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Topic: Piano Shred No.1 (live) (Read 1011 times)

nickc

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Piano Shred No.1 (live)

on: February 28, 2022, 04:52:20 AM

Sunday night piano shred... live

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ted

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Re: Piano Shred No.1 (live)

Reply #1 on: February 28, 2022, 10:07:51 AM

This reveals more secrets with each listening. Your trademark oriental ambiance distinguishes the opening and the section starting around 2:15. It comes naturally to you and its effect has deepened over the years. With you it is the real thing inculcated through experience, not a Hollywood imitation, and therefore you do well to let it out as the spirit moves you. I am very taken with the section starting around 6:25 and I think I know why. Coincidentally I was discussing the importance of the effect with Derek just last week. It is because certain notes or formations are permitted to sing, to stand out like coloured highlights in crystal. It occurs through several mechanisms unnecessary to analyse here, but it gives heterogeneity and life to music. Roughness is so much more vital than the traditional deadpan ideal of homogeneous glassy smoothness. Once again I have grasped the nettle and the diehards will have me for breakfast but never mind. Beautiful stuff, keep it coming.

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