Piatigorsky plays Faure Elegie

Another clip from the Bell Telephone Hour bonus feature. Patiagorsky plays Faure.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• cello
• music
• video
• Piatigorsky
• Faure
• Elegie

[aimson]

I think you meant to say: "I don't like it, it's too fast."

Or: "I don't care about anything but the tempo and that's why I don't like this performance."

Or: "My ears cannot hear anything beyond speed of music and therefore I should say how much I am disappointed in Piatigorsky."

Or finally: "As one of the 90% of Youtube listeners who all dislike this performance because he plays faster than my teacher told me to play, I will have to say I dislike this performance."

Need I go on?

[Polermo]

not every performance has to be a catharsis. there is some degree of class in understatement. anyone that has to dump their musicianship all the time is a ham. also different cellists have different things they play better. yo yo ma on Prokofiev i am amazed at. him on the bach suites he sounds robotic. lynn harrell on bloch's shelomo was gut wrenchingly amazing.

[aimson]

@germantel I'm not sure this is true for strings. If that were the case, I could play with a bow with one horse hair and it would produce the same sound as 1000 hairs (or w/e there is supposed to be). Whenever my bow loses enough hair, I need to get it rehaired - no argument there. Also, consider the multiple elements of good "sound." Even if you were right about volume of sound not increasing, you haven't considered the quality of sound that is highly affected by surface area.

[germantel]

@aimson

The sound will not increase the slightest bit with a broader hair surface. The surface does not even figure in the friction equation friction = presssure x friction coefficient (rosin here). A little physics would help.

[nisanus]

Ich liebe die ru s s i s c h-jüdische Virtuosenschule: Kogan, Oistrach, Gilels Lazar Berman....

[berituka]

incredible beautiful!!

[jakehuner]

Outstanding I love this peice

[aimson]

@JonRobert The viewpoint that a musician's job is to play "correctly" has resulted in a plethora of monotonous and vapid classical musicians flooding the market all around the globe on all different instruments. It especially plagues the world of violin, where personal creativity and ingenuity have been dampened to the point of near nonexistence. The rise of music "competitions" have a lot to do with discouraging creativity because they literally force musicians to conform to a limited standard.

[aimson]

@JonRobert The rigidity with which this generation hears classical music is a backlash against great art. The fact that most of the negative comments on this page (and literally dozens of my other ones) have focused on attempts to impose that rigidity towards the musician discourages me. The musician's job is not to interpret what the composer wanted but to interpret what they THINK the composer wanted. This distinction has a lot to do with personality and creativity and what makes music great.

[TomBarrister]

Perhaps those who complain should seek out his full recording of the work. They'll hear something entirely different. He had a time constraint on the show, and I don't imagine he was happy about the editing.

The conductor is Donald Voorhees, who was with the show for its entire 28 year run on radio and TV.

Mr. Piatigorsky's wife Jacqueline is still with us and will be (hopefully) be celebrating her 100th birthday in November.

[BioFamilie]

i wouldn't mind the speed so much if he chose his bowings more wisely. certain things are just not meant to be slurred

[cellodaniel1]

He plays it too fast to feel emotion.