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Barenboim's Interesting 5 minute analysis of Chopin Ballade 1

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Posted on March 24, 2017 at 19:52:53
Newey
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 On pianostreet.com, by one of the great pianists and musicians of our day, a quick but interesting look at the piece.

For piano players [and those who want to read], pianostreet also offers a download of the score.
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Thanks, Newey - Interesting, but a bit superficial I thought. OTOH. . . , posted on March 25, 2017 at 09:45:15
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 . . . how deeply into the piece can one go in four and a half minutes? ;-)

 

Interesting how much material Chopin generates out of the opening ascent. , posted on March 25, 2017 at 10:46:10
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Both the sunny material and the haunting waltz in rough outline, in 6/4 of course.

 

RE: I think the book, Play It Again, did a pretty good job. nt, posted on March 25, 2017 at 16:10:34
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Don't know that book - I'm intrigued - are there further details? [nt], posted on March 25, 2017 at 19:26:58
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RE: Don't know that book - I'm intrigued - are there further details? [nt], posted on March 26, 2017 at 09:03:20
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Thanks - I'm tempted to order it, posted on March 26, 2017 at 11:53:42
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 What did you think of it?

When I read some of the reviews on Amazon to Madeline, her reaction was, "people always seem to have lots and lots of time for navel gazing. Ooh! Look at me - I learned this really hard piece, and now you can learn about my magnificent quest in excruciating detail!". My feeling is that the G-minor Ballade isn't THAT hard (the F-minor Ballade is quite a bit harder IMHO - maybe the Second Ballade too), but whatever.

 

RE: Thanks - I'm tempted to order it, posted on March 26, 2017 at 14:01:31
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 I am not a pianist, I was a singer.

Spoiler: I've only gotten through 20% of the book. My book club selections needed attending to and I've had some health issues that precluded reading. I look forward to picking it up again. I did not read the reviews, it was given to me by a friend who is a pianist and also the Houston Sym music librarian.

I thought it was fascinating, not just because he wanted to really learn the piece (I don't remember him claiming it was the hardest ballade but maybe I missed that) but because of his real life job of dealing with Edward Snowden (2010) and editing the Guardian plus traveling quite a bit for the paper. He also addresses pianos, their different characteristics by brand and who likes which ones. He does have face time with some virtuosi discussing the piece.

If this is not interesting to you (snark alert) then by all means spend some time looking up the latest hi-rez recording of the newest babe piananistika.

I consider the book worth my time.

YMMV, yada-yada.






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Thanks - sounds good to me - I'll order it [nt], posted on March 27, 2017 at 09:09:09
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