Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2010-10-24 22:41
Sacha wrote:
>> ...it is more than just 'being' with this music here. There is an incredible amount of thought and care put into this rendition. His understanding of articulation here is amazingly precise, controlled, varied, and completely makes sense. His variations of color and his pacing of the piece as a whole sound to my ears very focused and thought out.>>
Yes, of course; but he, miraculously, 'has it be' that way for the listener, rather than 'doing stuff' to the music. There's a world of difference.
And when you see/hear/appreciate that world of difference, then it -- or the lack of it -- starts to stick out for you. You stop wanting to hear those who have no idea of that larger miracle, but instead want to promote what they seem to think of as the 'miracle' of their own execution.
Of course, to get to say that is why I posted the link in the first place.
How do you do that? Well, it seems that it's one of those things that you can't get to by 'trying' -- that's just more manipulation. You rather have to BE open to it:-)
By the way, though I would have said all that anyway, there's a very interesting book just out that characterises this difference in a very specific way. It's "The Master and his Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist, and it talks about the differences between the functions of the two hemispheres of the brain -- which subject I would never have thought would ever be useful. (Because, we read about this sort of stuff in the early 80s, and rightly rejected it.) However, newer techniques have made it much more pertinent -- indeed, I would say, inspiring.
Tony
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