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In Reply to: RE: Hey, Chris from Lafayette posted by rbolaw on November 13, 2014 at 08:08:14
I heard most of the Bartok album you mentioned, except for the Music for Children tracks (I don't know those pieces), a couple of pieces (Bartok and Martinu) she recorded with cellist Timora Rosler, two Liszt Concert Etudes, and the first couple of movements from the Beethoven Quintet for piano and winds. You're right: she does a fine job with all of this repertoire. I might prefer my Bartok a bit drier (à la Kocsis), but she makes a good case for her more colorful performance too. To me, her general approach was even better suited to the Liszt Etudes (Waldesrauschen and Gnomenreigen). I also suspect I may have been missing some of her depth of tone by listening on Spotify - who knows?
BTW, another Bartok babe is the Bulgarian pianist, Anna Stoycheva, who plays "Out of Doors" very well indeed on the following "calling card" album (on the Gega label - the booklet cover shows her communing with a tree):
And just to re-visit the subject again, yes, all those works on the Bartok album are either tonal or modal (often the latter).
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though the problem for me may be more her piano and the way it was recorded - too tinny and percussive. I thought her Debussy and Brahms were more successful, since the heightened clarity of her piano's sound is more of a benefit for those pieces.
But it's hard to say how much of that sound quality is the pianist and how much the recording engineer.
Maybe a better way to describe it is as a bit closer to a fortepiano sound and further from a Bosendorfer sound. It's not the type of sound I like for Bartok.
and Mikrokosmos, a series of numbered short student pieces written in gradually increasing difficulty and complexity. (But you're a piano teacher and probably know all about them.) Bartok himself proposed an order for selections of them to be performed in recital. Deceptively simple -- obviously, Bartok enjoyed the challenge of doing creative things with pieces technically simple enough for the youngest students.
I wish more of today's major composers would challenge themselves with projects like that.
Thanks! for sharing.
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