Mitsuko Uchida on Schoenberg's Piano Concerto

Mitsuko Uchida talking about her experience with Arnold Schoenberg's piano music. Including a rehearsal of the Piano Concerto op. 42 (conducted by Jeffrey Tate).

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Music

Tags:

• Schoenberg
• Schönberg
• Piano
• Concerto
• Mitsuko
• Uchida
• Dodecaphony
• Zwölftontechnik

[brainypug]

I fell in love with her while watching her saying "do you know what it takes? just take guts to do it...just takes guts to say...well too bad, hop it goes..."

[ppmusic06]

I always love hearing interviews with concert pianists, and seeing them play.

[pietalpha2]

I saw her live tonight playing this work and she had to use a score!! The page-turner was jumping up and down like a rabbit!

It is so complex and just does not flow. Schoenberg did not marry the piano with the orchestra in many places.

[videoclog]

@CHELL9001 No, I don't think so. I do think atonality (or atonal elements) can broaden the way of expression but atonality alone seems to me an insufficient way of expression.

[CHELL9001]

Someone please put forward a reasonable answer.

Is atonality a complete language of expressions?

[woodenspoon324]

@bayreuth79 i dont understand how atonality can be a contradiction of terms, surely it is more of an absolution, atonality is 'total dissonance', which is a real contradiction because without consonance theres no dissonance, like yin and yang. it's like language. from the point of tonality, its just organised jiberish but atonality is a different language with new grammar and syntax. organized chaos doesnt really apply. maybe you just dont understand it... sorry to sound like a judgemental whore

[ajayalmighty]

This is not just a pianist, she doesnt just play it. She uses it for whatever means she wants, for whatever she wants to convey. This is truly a master.

[whatshendrix]

@bayreuth79

1. Do you never feel emotions which can only be explained with sheer dissonance?

2. Chaos IS order. Research it.

3. How can atonal music be nonexistent if it exists lol

[bayreuth79]

@whatshendrix Explain.

[bayreuth79]

@TheRealLo Music previous to the baroque period was still basically in a tonal context. Medieval music, for instance, which is my specialism at university, was clearly tonal. The atonal music of Schoenberg and Webern is something new in terms of musical history; and if you don't recognize that then I'm afraid you are ignorant of musical history.

In terms of sound- what distinguishes some of Schoenberg's piano pieces from someone banging on a piano randomly? Remember I said, in terms of sound.

[whatshendrix]

@FidelioRoo

:D Some people can't even tell if you mess up a tonal piece, most don't even notice off-key singing... So what? Some people are far-sighted, does that stultify the details in visual art?

There are always intricacies which can ruin a performance when they are neglected, but can only enrich it very subtly when played well. To the trained attentive ear every sound adds to the listening experience and those who listen to the music passively like it's a blurry mash of sounds don't matter

[whatshendrix]

@bayreuth79

You're a contradiction in terms lol