Music and technique is connected. Sometimes one can practise pure technique in order to get more precision and efficiency in for instance scales, which will enable one to play with more freedom, and give many more opportunities how to play a passage, because there are not any psychical barriers... Many of the big composers practised excercises, scales, arpeggios and similar things themselves, and recommended it to their students...
Look at Morazt, Haydn, Beethoven and so many other composers who wrote for the piano and the Romantic literature which is full of technical problems and they are not all about scales either. There are many more things to music than the scales themselves in abtractum where he thinks as if we were an Olympian training for a a game but this is art not sports and singers do warm ups which is to make the voice more flexible and so do dancers. Pianists need to warm up too but studying music is first.
i think duchable is maybe obsessed with technique but i agree with him when he says that whe should not pratice technique in piano works, even if it's chopin or liszt etudes.practicing pure technique could be interesting if you got imagination and practice in a way which is not boring.
he is interesting as a human being.I have his chopin sonatas. He was not obsessed with technique .u show stupidity at cancelling a well known pianists on some tv clip of a few seconds.U should hope the world is not so quick to judge u.Who are u people all over utube with these dire predilections!
Trop vrai ce qu'il dit. ca fait 12ans que je suis au conservatoire. Et on ne nous apprend jamais les techniques pures. Je fais donc parti de ces jeunes au conservatoire qui savent jouer mais pour les gammes,.. je sais que j'ai du mal.
Many people make nasty comments on him. I heard him live playing Ravel's left hand concerto at LA Scala theter and it was a magnifcent performance, both techinically and musically. Also I find his Liszt piano concerto's to be among the most musical renditions recorded of those pieces.
I saw him live in Strasbourg tonight and he plays really perfctly but so superficialy... the music had no sense for me... he transformed great piano pieces into great exercises for piano... I had to leave before the end of the recital because it was very boring and annoying too... I think that he knows everything about piano technique, but he doesn't understand music at all...
I am so agree with you, he is a fabulous technician but a very small musician. His Chopin and Liszt Etudes are mechanically amazing but so poor of imagination and poetry.
I'm a pianist, and I tend to agree with him. I don't think practicing scales is meant to be all consuming, but it is very important to be fluent at the keyboard. Not only that, but it makes learning new music and expanding your repertory so much easier.
If you want to buy anything you please, you need all the money in the world to be able to. His approach here is the same principle: in order to be able to play anything you please, you need all the technique in the world to be able to. From a professional point of view, his approach is as accurate as can be. But...shouldn't music itself be in front of professionalism? What are his ideas about this? I would love to see the whole interview to get the right perspective here!
@allegrissimo wrong !!! he's just mentionning the fact that you should be more practising to build up yourself a strong technique to abord pieces like campanella, and other transcendental difficult pieces and no more.....he quit because he didn't like the image concerts gave....or how it turned out to be.....just people who came and listen without knowing what it's all about, but we're here to say "i was at that concert" and just showing off around !!
@flouz2 (part 1) What part was I wrong about? He states that he believes in "pure technique", as is formulated in studies like those of Hanon, Tausig, etc. I believe pure techinique is in any piece if you take it seriously. One could use la Campanella to learn how to play la Campanella, without having to play (and wasting valuable time on) non-compositions like Hanon's scales.
@flouz2 (part 2) you're right about his reasons for aborting concert practice! And I agree with him, but I would have expressed it in a less extreme way (at least I still have my instrument ;)) p.s. for criticasters: please note that I do not wish to compare myself nor my professional skills with those of Sir Duchable! :)
I don't agree with this guy. I think it's possible to gain technique from playing pieces as opposed to just boring technical exercises. When you're learning a piece you have to work on things like evenness of runs, or playing thirds, etc. Why not play a piece and have fun at the same time?
Liszt,Rachmaninov,Friedman and Heifetz to name a few, practiced scales/exercises every day.One should do both some of pure technic and difficult pieces daily.People who are quick to dismiss honest workmanship should probably be doing neither...
He says he's weak in the left hand... I heard him live in La Scala theater in Milano, playing Ravel's left hand piano concerto and it was the best performance of it I've ever heard!
In 2003, this French classical pianist has quitted the industry "in protest at its elitism" - by destroying two grand pianos and burning his recital suit at his last three gigs. I think this approach he shows here is also disastrous for your motivation.
Well, what's the likelihood he encounters students worth giving a piano to?
I don't think he's a great loss to classical music. Even in the Liszt etudes there are superior technicians such as Berman and Berezovsky. Very conventional pianist, a pity the potential Arthur Rubinstein saw in him at one point never fully manifested.
i have a cd of him.. he plays etudes nocturnes preludes etc by chopin.. and he does the exact thing that hes telling not to do in this video.. bad frasing and cover mistakes whit the pedal
"DUCHBAG"??You should learn how to write and speak man... This guy is very good, you shouldn't insult him considering that, after seeing you play in the last video of your list, one wants to vomit...
All great pianist of the past (especially when they were great musicians) would disagree wih Duchable. One should never isolate the pure technical, mechanical work but always combine it with musical intentions. Why is it wrong to practise difficult passages from famous works en make exercises of them? The musical intelligence behind it is the most important.
The guy is my fellow countryman. If I were to follow his advice I'd work my scales everyday. But as he says at the end, who's got the time for 2 hours' practice of sheer scales daily?
Il y a un gros minet sur son piano xD sacré Duchâble!
lePistolero 4 weeks ago
qui entend ses "faiblesses à la main gauche" ? Pas évident ;-)
Emlomorful 5 months ago
@Emlomorful ouais nan mais ouais, il faut être comme lui pour s'en rendre compte!! on est d'accord!!!!
wrigleyx 2 weeks ago
Music and technique is connected. Sometimes one can practise pure technique in order to get more precision and efficiency in for instance scales, which will enable one to play with more freedom, and give many more opportunities how to play a passage, because there are not any psychical barriers... Many of the big composers practised excercises, scales, arpeggios and similar things themselves, and recommended it to their students...
JJKjaer 7 months ago
Look at Morazt, Haydn, Beethoven and so many other composers who wrote for the piano and the Romantic literature which is full of technical problems and they are not all about scales either. There are many more things to music than the scales themselves in abtractum where he thinks as if we were an Olympian training for a a game but this is art not sports and singers do warm ups which is to make the voice more flexible and so do dancers. Pianists need to warm up too but studying music is first.
Pianoantics 7 months ago
i think duchable is maybe obsessed with technique but i agree with him when he says that whe should not pratice technique in piano works, even if it's chopin or liszt etudes.practicing pure technique could be interesting if you got imagination and practice in a way which is not boring.
Masatsu 11 months ago
...weakness in my left hand!!! doesn't sound like it
ReturnOfTheStienway 1 year ago 2
he is interesting as a human being.I have his chopin sonatas. He was not obsessed with technique .u show stupidity at cancelling a well known pianists on some tv clip of a few seconds.U should hope the world is not so quick to judge u.Who are u people all over utube with these dire predilections!
lovesGenet 1 year ago 2
what an asshole
peppersprayinthebutt 2 years ago
Trop vrai ce qu'il dit. ca fait 12ans que je suis au conservatoire. Et on ne nous apprend jamais les techniques pures. Je fais donc parti de ces jeunes au conservatoire qui savent jouer mais pour les gammes,.. je sais que j'ai du mal.
oOChanquanOo 2 years ago
Many people make nasty comments on him. I heard him live playing Ravel's left hand concerto at LA Scala theter and it was a magnifcent performance, both techinically and musically. Also I find his Liszt piano concerto's to be among the most musical renditions recorded of those pieces.
voolare 3 years ago 2
"A coups de pédale quand ça marche pas" mdddr!
K189T 3 years ago 5
This video has good information about piano playing but there's nothing here to learn about music.
andrewenn17 3 years ago
there's nothing to learn about piano playing either :D
kpunkt 3 years ago
It's only an extract. And Duchable is more known as a technician as an artist...
K189T 3 years ago
I saw him live in Strasbourg tonight and he plays really perfctly but so superficialy... the music had no sense for me... he transformed great piano pieces into great exercises for piano... I had to leave before the end of the recital because it was very boring and annoying too... I think that he knows everything about piano technique, but he doesn't understand music at all...
eduardommm 3 years ago
I am so agree with you, he is a fabulous technician but a very small musician. His Chopin and Liszt Etudes are mechanically amazing but so poor of imagination and poetry.
DesAbends 2 years ago
I'm a pianist, and I tend to agree with him. I don't think practicing scales is meant to be all consuming, but it is very important to be fluent at the keyboard. Not only that, but it makes learning new music and expanding your repertory so much easier.
barnold81 4 years ago
No!The Etudes of the great masters are here to get a better technique.Ofcourse you should be able to play scales and other exercices.
But his technique is ofcourse magnificent.
And yes he's right.There are people who play these difficult pieces without beeing able playing scales.
parule 4 years ago
No wonder he had to quit the industry, he became completely obsessed with things that had nothing to do with music itself...
allegrissimo 4 years ago 2
in other words, he was far ahead of his time. :sdc:
datruzepp 4 years ago
If you want to buy anything you please, you need all the money in the world to be able to. His approach here is the same principle: in order to be able to play anything you please, you need all the technique in the world to be able to. From a professional point of view, his approach is as accurate as can be. But...shouldn't music itself be in front of professionalism? What are his ideas about this? I would love to see the whole interview to get the right perspective here!
allegrissimo 4 years ago
@allegrissimo wrong !!! he's just mentionning the fact that you should be more practising to build up yourself a strong technique to abord pieces like campanella, and other transcendental difficult pieces and no more.....he quit because he didn't like the image concerts gave....or how it turned out to be.....just people who came and listen without knowing what it's all about, but we're here to say "i was at that concert" and just showing off around !!
flouz2 1 year ago
@flouz2 (part 1) What part was I wrong about? He states that he believes in "pure technique", as is formulated in studies like those of Hanon, Tausig, etc. I believe pure techinique is in any piece if you take it seriously. One could use la Campanella to learn how to play la Campanella, without having to play (and wasting valuable time on) non-compositions like Hanon's scales.
allegrissimo 1 year ago
@flouz2 (part 2) you're right about his reasons for aborting concert practice! And I agree with him, but I would have expressed it in a less extreme way (at least I still have my instrument ;)) p.s. for criticasters: please note that I do not wish to compare myself nor my professional skills with those of Sir Duchable! :)
allegrissimo 1 year ago
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allegrissimo 8 months ago
OK, whether you agree or not with him, one thing is true.
He was one of the greatest pianists in the world and he made his carrier by doing this.
pierrezansu 4 years ago
I don't agree with this guy. I think it's possible to gain technique from playing pieces as opposed to just boring technical exercises. When you're learning a piece you have to work on things like evenness of runs, or playing thirds, etc. Why not play a piece and have fun at the same time?
PianoManSteve 4 years ago 2
If you find technical exercises boring, you are practicing them incorrectly.
javacisnotrecognized 3 years ago
Not true. It just means I don't enjoy them like you do.
PianoManSteve 3 years ago
How on Earth do you find time to be bored when you're trying to conciously coordinate 8 or 9 things at the same time?
javacisnotrecognized 3 years ago
Je suis d'accord avec lui. Il est absolument correcte.
Boodistic 4 years ago 2
Par contre toi tu n'es pas corrrect.
GabTH 3 years ago
lol
GabTH 3 years ago
Liszt,Rachmaninov,Friedman and Heifetz to name a few, practiced scales/exercises every day.One should do both some of pure technic and difficult pieces daily.People who are quick to dismiss honest workmanship should probably be doing neither...
VanoPitersky 5 years ago
Agreed! There's so many out there that never practice technical work and then wonder why they can't play anything past moonlight sonata. It's nuts!
bariguru 5 years ago
hahaha!
ReturnOfTheStienway 2 years ago
He says he's weak in the left hand... I heard him live in La Scala theater in Milano, playing Ravel's left hand piano concerto and it was the best performance of it I've ever heard!
voolare 5 years ago
In 2003, this French classical pianist has quitted the industry "in protest at its elitism" - by destroying two grand pianos and burning his recital suit at his last three gigs. I think this approach he shows here is also disastrous for your motivation.
erpooh 5 years ago
He could give the pianos to students who can't afford to buy one. He is just a showing off technician.
DesAbends 2 years ago
Well, what's the likelihood he encounters students worth giving a piano to?
I don't think he's a great loss to classical music. Even in the Liszt etudes there are superior technicians such as Berman and Berezovsky. Very conventional pianist, a pity the potential Arthur Rubinstein saw in him at one point never fully manifested.
demosj 2 years ago
Wheres this video from?? whats the title of the dvd?
mojomonkeymafia 5 years ago
i have a cd of him.. he plays etudes nocturnes preludes etc by chopin.. and he does the exact thing that hes telling not to do in this video.. bad frasing and cover mistakes whit the pedal
wamadeus 5 years ago
HAHAHAHAH WTF?!!?
datruzepp 5 years ago
"DUCHBAG"??You should learn how to write and speak man... This guy is very good, you shouldn't insult him considering that, after seeing you play in the last video of your list, one wants to vomit...
seannyandme 5 years ago
All great pianist of the past (especially when they were great musicians) would disagree wih Duchable. One should never isolate the pure technical, mechanical work but always combine it with musical intentions. Why is it wrong to practise difficult passages from famous works en make exercises of them? The musical intelligence behind it is the most important.
erpooh 5 years ago
The guy is my fellow countryman. If I were to follow his advice I'd work my scales everyday. But as he says at the end, who's got the time for 2 hours' practice of sheer scales daily?
Duskygrin 5 years ago
tru
damildlyshreddah 5 years ago
He is french and his name is Francois Rene Duchable. Even Arthur Rubinstein considered him as one of the best pianist he has ever met.
DavidSmith2001fr 5 years ago
I didn't know Steven Spielberg plays the piano.
cziffra1980 5 years ago
correctly
DaComme 5 years ago
*drools after G# minor scale*
bariguru 5 years ago
hahahah diz mofo iz a SDC legend wiz a few recordz in random PIMP ETz n predicktably da faztezt n moz even coldfart finnizhin zcale evah
datruzepp 5 years ago
this guys scales are unbelievable
Jamie184 5 years ago
Dude...enough with the Z's..
xXNekoNekoXx 5 years ago
hahahha wtf, u iz a bit sheeyat
EmmDoubleEw 5 years ago
Who is this man?
newton2060 5 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA DA DUCH
datruzepp 5 years ago