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@FondOfGreek - Well there was at least one great composer who agreed with you and that was Ravel, who thought - despite the powerful ionfluence of Spanish music on him and his integration pf Chinese elements - that French music should be as French as possible, and he told the English composer V. ...

@jigsawzoubir Thanks, Zuobir, The other movements, especially the last, are delights.I have listened to Concertos by Field and others, and he has obviously a greater mastery than the young Clara, but his lyricism is so suave it becomes boring; she is full of energy and invention and freshness. I...

The last comment was posted a year ago. What negelct of this exceptional music. A parrallel to the Chopin Etudes for the adventurous spirit. Thank-you

I love this piece but I'm also writing to see if I can leave messages on Youtube. My last one on Ligeti was refused.

He gives the Bach Prelude a wonderful new elan at the beginning. He is an excelent inspired composer of film music - I wish I could compose like that!! But he has nothing whatever to do with modern music.

I have grown to love this music as I do Schumann's Kreisleriana.

@sharonarnoldi Your show real sensibilty.

If you don't mind I'll add to my previous comment. Firstly con moto means with movement. I have listened again. The other versions I heard have no idea of accompaniment The begin it grwoling and heavy and then tney play the melody plonk, plonk, plonk as though, note for more when it should flow o...

@nickwallacesmith - Well I sincerely hope I'll get to see that film one day. How lucky for you to have seen Salut live. Like Sibley and Seymour I couldn't make much of Fonteyn to begin with, but fortunately I had begun to appreciate her genius when I saw her in the Berlioz R&J pas de deux, in R ...

@DarkAngelsForever Yes, I took a lot of trouble writing an aphosristic essay on Fonteyntrying my best. to capturing the esssence of her dancing personality. I once sent it to David Leaonard for his magazine - he used to have a shop called Dance books near Charing Cross RD. He is very, very stif...

Amazing for 18 year olds. You are lovely, your music is lovely and the expression so mature. Wonderful! Thanks-

@thetejmeister -Yes I agree with what you say you say, but this does not mean a free for all. The Liszt piece is delicate, beginning with a rumbling bass destroys the whole piece, Everything depends on the right tiouch on that first Aflat around which the whole piece turns. I have found better in...

@IlSignoreNeroo I think you are right. I thinkI just have a personal prejudice against pompous music. The funeral march is certainly very impressive and If I'm not mistaken it was used at Auden's funeral, though perhaps not without a touch of irony. i prefer Beehoven's march in th Eroica.

I think she was following her husband in writing pieces for piano and one other instrument Joachim, who certainly interpreted this music. He himself wrote similar pieces. I think they wanted to please and wrote an inspired type of salon music. Clara was always good at her developments and it is t...

This movement is called Scherzo but it is in fact a Minuet with lovely girlish charm and Clara is inventive enough to save it from the rigidity of many a classical minuets and adds expressive conclusions, also in the Trio (contrasting section) Central to the work is the melancholic Trio which, qu...

There are concert pianists. then there are poets of the piano to which Barenboim in particular and also Brendel belong. Ive neen studying his B. Sonatas. Where does idiotic idea of third rate musicians claim that he is careless in the this idioticcthat he does not observe details. if ever anyone...

@alkanliszt Thanks, I now understand - I read you carelessly - that I was listening to the Moses Fantasy. I'm reading the Schumann biographies and diaries for the umpteenth timeand I actually want to hear some of these Thalberg and Liszt Fantasies that were regularly main features on her program...

The beauty of this interpretation is simply indescribable. To think - can you believe it? That Brendel's playing is harsh, academic. He gets through to the purest essence of this music, which earlier pianists had camouflaged with cheap emtionalism. He msses nothing, sensitivity of tone, rubato, d...

Schumann's music was not a senseless clatter of notes.

I love this Concerto and can listen to it three times running. BUT.....even when quite inferior piano piece of his appears on youtube, there are always voices which want to say she was 'better than her husband." Clara herself would have dismissed such statements out of hand. Schumann - the compos...

I keep waking up anew to Brahms' genius. That special inspired blend of harmonic colours, light and shade, his own use of 3rd relationships, minor notes in just the right places. W hat a blessing to have such music!

Thank-you for this glorious music kammerkoorvenus. I have always loved Brahms but wasn't attracted to the dry-sounding title. After rereading a Brahms biography, I thought I must give them a try. What a surprise! F resh and inspired, Bach and Brahms blended.

@berlinzerberus Ich brauche Zeit um ueber Ihre Analyse nachzudenken. Was Sie sagen stimmt wohl . das Gewebe seh ich, aber fuer jetzt denke ich noch, dass die Begkeitungsfigur leiser gehalten muesste. Ich will mir wieder die Interpretation von Clara's Schuelerin, Fanny Davies anhoeren. Gewebe ode...