CESAR FRANCK / LEONARD PENNARIO - Prelude, Choral and Fugue Part 2/2

Piano: Leonard Pennario

Part 2 of 2 'Fugue'

(Part 1/2 Prelude, Choral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJnPVs5yOnA )

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Photographs in this video are courtesy of Mary Kunz Goldman, who is the music critic of The Buffalo News and the authorized biographer of Leonard Pennario. Mary blogs daily about the adventure of chronicling a great pianist's life on her Web site, http://www.marykunzgoldman.com

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[fredericfranc]

...lets more trollery run on...had Franck been in the position to make a personal acquaintance of Lady Gaga, probably would have been tempted to dedicate his estimable, probably should say inestimable symphony to the lady...have met musical Frenchmen deeply embarassed about having C.F. a part of their national musical heritage...me not being a Frenchman (except imaginatively so, perhaps), well, I don't have to face THAT as a practical issue...one way: "CF wasn't really French"; might work foryou

[238assante]

ok, didn't notice troll warnings... *runs*

[fredericfranc]

@238assante ...Pennario, having a bit of sense of shame in him, after all the excesses with the Hollywood Bowl, does try to some extent to moderate and ameliorate the excesses of the composer, given that this is a kind of a "classicist" work, given its title, the "associations", etc., but what I see as virtues, after all I am basically praising the guy's rendition of this, you see as defects, "too dry"....ah, what can I say?...this is the Age of Lady Gaga...what should I expect?...

[238assante]

@fredericfranc

it is dry, in the sense that his legato lacks overlap and sense of pedal doesn't allow all the arpeggiated chords of the prelude to roll seamlessly. And his rubato doesn't work. Go listen to Franck's D minor symphony or violin sonata if you don't know the works already . They are fine examples of Franck's lyricism and wagnerian sense of texture .

but don't worry about it, i'm just out of my mind. ;p

[fredericfranc]

@238assante ...you have to be out your mind calling this playing dry...the guy is knocking himself out being splashy...he is like that Hollywood actress, whatever her name was, always diving into the pool to the sound of all those harps...yeah, sometimes you gotta throw on the goddamn harps...Pennario specialized in, what is the word, collaborating?, with the Hollywood Bowl...seems like Cesar Franck did too, go for that kind of "collaborating"(?)...long before anybody ever heard of Hollywood..

[238assante]

@fredericfranc

what??? hahaha not great music ? this is a masterpiece . his playing is too dry for this great romantic work .

[fredericfranc]

...not particularly great music, yet the pianist disappeared into it...that is what they are supposed to do, if they do it right, I guess...