Would you mind to also give us a slower version - it is hard to sing this song so fast when one is learning it...and I think I'm slow anyway!
Do you think Schubert wanted this to be sung very fast and straight faced or did he leave it to the individual performers to put in their personal interpretation? I'm new to this - and plead ignorance.
It's a theory I have about sung music - the voice tells us what the protagonist thinks he thinks and feels, the piano or orchestra tells us what he really thinks and feels. But that theory's not official, it's born of my own ignorance.
So anybody who tries adding an extra interpretation will create confusion in the listener because he will hear two people telling different stories.
The right attitude is to be frightened or intimidated by the piano or orchestra, trying to ignore it at times.
Nonono. Au contraire. The conductor leads the assault on the protagonist's sanity, from within, so to speak. As R.Strauss said during a rehearsal of one of his operas: 'Louder! Louder! I can still hear the soprano!' There's no more harmony in music than in life. As Callas said to someone who wanted to know the secret of the correct expression as a singer: 'Listen to the music, it tells you what is really going on'. Rockers and rappers who say classical music is soothing just don't have a clue.
It sounds like war to me!
neelsdp1 2 years ago
Thanks for posting.
Would you mind to also give us a slower version - it is hard to sing this song so fast when one is learning it...and I think I'm slow anyway!
Do you think Schubert wanted this to be sung very fast and straight faced or did he leave it to the individual performers to put in their personal interpretation? I'm new to this - and plead ignorance.
neelsdp1 2 years ago
It's a theory I have about sung music - the voice tells us what the protagonist thinks he thinks and feels, the piano or orchestra tells us what he really thinks and feels. But that theory's not official, it's born of my own ignorance.
So anybody who tries adding an extra interpretation will create confusion in the listener because he will hear two people telling different stories.
The right attitude is to be frightened or intimidated by the piano or orchestra, trying to ignore it at times.
tgpedersen 2 years ago
So I guess the director tries to create harmony between protagonist and piano...
neelsdp1 2 years ago
Nonono. Au contraire. The conductor leads the assault on the protagonist's sanity, from within, so to speak. As R.Strauss said during a rehearsal of one of his operas: 'Louder! Louder! I can still hear the soprano!' There's no more harmony in music than in life. As Callas said to someone who wanted to know the secret of the correct expression as a singer: 'Listen to the music, it tells you what is really going on'. Rockers and rappers who say classical music is soothing just don't have a clue.
tgpedersen 2 years ago
It sounds like full scale battle, like in some operas where you expect something to give...
neelsdp1 2 years ago