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Obviously something is wrong with one of you - I mean Chopin, Cortot or yourself...
Probably Chopin can be excluded. Between your and Cortot's understanding of Chopin I personally prefer Cortot.
2 years ago 7
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the dramatic and intensity in this interpretation is incredible...
Cortot does not leave us untouched with this way of interpretation... very expressive. His pupils Clara Haskil, Dinu Lipatti and Eliane Richepin did leave us other great interpretations of Chopin in this great tradition.
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Here Cortot's right hand doesn't follow the left! And it's still beautiful - is this magic?
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I always read about how nutty and inconsistant Cortots playing could be...wrong notes and memory lapses....what i here in this is perhaps the best playing of this work I have ever heard ever....protean and definitive...perfect...Bravo!!
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Nowadays, people have a tendency of over-emphasizing every little segment of the melody, making for tiny micro-phrases. It's like every were doing the music equivalent of speaking like Tony Blair. In contrast, I love the long sentences that Cortot creates. It gives everything a sense of intensity, purpose, and momentum.
11 months ago 2
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I far prefer this interpretation to the mechanical modern ones.
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Recorded 8 Jul 1933, London, No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road and available on EMI six-disc set CZS 7 67359 2 in MUCH better sound.
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Alfred was camera-shy. On Dave Margulies' 'Meet the Pianist' (NBC Television) he bit his nails straight through Prokofiev's 'Autumn Suite'.
Two days later on RAI television's 'Conversazioni con il Tasto' he vomited all over Gino Buscaglia, the conductor. That was his last appearance on Italian TV. Buscaglia was, it is said, dating Fashion designer Valentino. The Italian President at the time, Aldo Morosini, had Cortot 'cut out' of the Quirinal agenda. and RAI TV followed suit.
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@truecrypt OK, thanks,
If it's 1933, I may have it. I'll check.
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Andrei, do you know the year of this recording?
My all-time favorite is Cortot's 1953 recording, and this obviously is not that one.
But, being Cortot, this, too, is a wonderful performance. Every performance by him of the same piece is different.
He even misses different notes. :-))
snaaptaker 1 year ago
@snaaptaker
To say the truth - I don't remember...
probably 1933...
truecrypt 1 year ago
The movements are copy/pasted incorrectly in the description.
Other than that, many thanks for posting this!
RabidCh 3 years ago
thank you! ;)
Fixed!
truecrypt 3 years ago