Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-04-04 20:00
It's a very nice, musical performance. And by the time he wrote the piece, Saint-Saëns was of course still French, but by no means light. I was wondering, though, if anyone else plays the first movement faster? I listened to a bunch of YouTube recordings, and the tempi are almost all just like this recording, with the pianists sitting on the first note for almost exactly as long. It's an uncanny degree of unanimity you don't hear with most of the important solo pieces. The only one I listened to that was about at the tempo I like it at was also the only one by a French player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBnSe6TZCA. I know it says Allegretto, and if you look at metronomes, the usual tempo is at the upper end of Allegretto, but the first movement of Poulenc is also Allegretto, and it books. The normal tempo just doesn't feel like Allegretto to me. The French recording is also notable for the weird red dot on his bell, sort of like a sniper with very good reactions was tracking him. I like his playing a lot, but have to say I'm possibly happier with Ulf's German sound.
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