(Pollini)Chopin Prelude No. 24- Fragment

a rare film footage of the young Maurizio Pollini playing at the Winners' Concert of the 1960 Chopin Competition.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pollini
• Chopin
• Prelude
• classical
• music
• piano
• warsaw

[findelka1810]

I don`t know why should he play in another way...especially this piece... a lot of people has a completely wrong, feminine-like image in their head about Chopin. His music shouldn`t be played in a mushy way. He surely had the capacity to paint all the emotions of the existing paletta, but wasn`t just some sugared oyster some people want to imagine. Therefore this interpretation is just right in my opinion. And yes, I`m even a woman :)

[mdoub]

He's just a boy. A boy!!!!

—Daniel Day Lewis, in "There Will Be Blood"

[acortot]

@pianotonton I don't think there is much in common with Lipatti's style and Pollini. The only thing they have in common is a clean execution with measured rhythms.

Michelangeli was also a clean player but he is neither Lipatti or Pollini.. as for the 'majority' .. for decades in most record stores the ONLY recordings of the preludes you could find were pollini.. that's the reason people know him I guess.

[findelka1810]

@pianotonton you can bear testimony to that, right? :D LOL

[pianotonton]

@acortot Vous vous rendez compte des sottises que vous assénez ? Maurizio Pollini est un grand artiste et il est respecté comme tel par l'immense majorité du public et la totalité des musiciens professionnels. Et son jeu témoigne d'une très haute individualité justement : le choix qu'il a fait d'un refus du sentimentalisme ou de l'originalité à tout prix est la voie choisi autrefois par de nombreux pianistes : est-il si différent de Dinu Lipatti ?

[pianotonton]

@findelka1810 Juste une chose : Chopin n'a pas dit que Liszt jouait mieux ses études que lui.

[findelka1810]

@acortot who is talking about shouting? still, I don`t agree. I don`t think he cared about what others said about his music.

[acortot]

@findelka1810 The key-point is that Chopin's fortissimo was not shouting.

it was a measured, relative fortissimo.. probably because as a person he was very conscious of pleasing and supporting the salon-atmosphere of the aristocratic elite..

kings don't shout.. only dictators shout.

[findelka1810]

@acortot about the ff ending I meant the Barcarolle, sorry (not the Berceuse). it IS ff in the manuscript and it is needed there. why are you so sure? he still used fortissimo as it is written in many manuscripts...Listen to the op.32 no.1 nocturne. you can not always play only between pp and p. I like his delicate and sophisticated ways, but in certain pieces you have to use ff! That`s how life works, it`s not only happy and good days, but a variety of good and bad, daylight and darkness,etc.

[acortot]

@findelka1810 The Etudes are just that: studies.. they are different in approach. as far as the audience and attitude having changed, I agree.. but that's not necessarily a good thing for the music's sake. Soft does not necessarily mean effeminated, it is simply a choice in dynamics.. you can communicate manly energies softly.. not all men shout.

[acortot]

@findelka1810 regarding his prediliction for pianissimo: wrong! it wasn't because of his sickness, as he was already playing softly when he was young.

It mostly had to do with fine nuances in tone-color, and his belief that the 'listener should complete the picture'.. plus, he didn't like thumpers and those who played in the 'German' style.