Piano Masterclass Gyorgy Sebok 1987 part 1 of 6

[itssevenboxes]

What piece is she playing?

[dmitribron]

@itssevenboxes Haydn Sonata No.60 Hob.XVI:50, C major

[itssevenboxes]

@dmitribron Thanks!

[re1ntyes]

Gyorgy Sebok was great, the girl was horrible. Honestly, not the way she played, but the WAY she played.. Look at her movements, her eyes (especially how she looks at him while playing), yuk! It was very distractive, and all those little sounds she made while he was speaking. I think it even made him uncomfortable, it certainly was for me.

[shomolya]

What a gem!

Thanks you very much!

[rmfresno]

Thank you, very very nice!!!

[konstantinoupianist]

What a Musician..Let's try to learn from him..

[SolarJakee]

I love how he thinks about music. I can't tell if she's just very nervous or disagrees with him.

[mezjen]

Can anybody tell me which piece of debussy she is playing here?

Thank you.

[mayroni]

Thanks so much for posting this. It brought tears to my eyes. If you have any more, please post.

[pianopera]

"The most difficult aspect of a master class, Sebök said, is trying to get a student to an emptiness, a still point, where (s)he can truly hear what (s)he is doing. For him, music had to flow out of the pianist, and in order for that to happen there had to be a quiet center."

(From T.E. Carhart's book "The Piano Shop on the Left Bank")

Btw, the pianist that is playing here is Ellen Corver.

[AlphaSierra5]

@pianopera Wow. Amazing. How were you able to determine the student's identity?

[pianopera]

@AlphaSierra5 Because I studied at the same Conservatory in 1987. At that time, she was one of the "star pupils"...

[pianopera]

I would never have thought it possible to see this back on YouTube! Many thanks for posting...I still remember this masterclass vividly, it was extremely interesting to attend it when I was a young student. Sebök was a great teacher, cultured and with a remarkable psychological insight. Moreover, he was an exceptional musician, and this combination is rare.

[cherieb1900]

@pianopera Sebok is not really teaching anything! He is expressing his own point of view without talking about the elements of performance interpretation very carefully described in the numerous teaching teatises of the time which would have allowed the student to then be able to make her own interpretative choices !!

[PhilippeLoTheEternal]

@pianopera I love Sebök ! And, in my opinion, he would be a very good actor : what impressive facial and vocal emotions he had !