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RE: Debussy Rhapsodie

Author: Sylvain
Date: 2002-10-10 16:09

I have downloaded the document on Carbonare's page a while ago.
He also has the original manuscript.
http://www.carbonare.com/main3.htm
If you can read french then it's a must.
As far as the comments on fidelity to the score vs performer's persona.

I prefer when one is true to the score. I hate the new trend of playing the cadenza of copland concerto as if it was a Jazz solo.
We have a recording of this cadenza by Goodman, a jazz player, conducted by Copland himself. The cadenza is played straight, why should we change it?

I understand the crowd pleasing, performer's rewarding performances, and sure in the end it's the audience that matters. But then as an amateur why do I try so hard to play all the notes at the tempo required? I should simply edit the music to make it better suited to my own abilities, add a few C major arpeggios and scales here and there to please the crowd...
Dynamics, tempo markings, historical context, composers style and playing tradition are just as important as the notes on the page.

Somebody playing it differently might be playing something fun but is not playing the piece itself. Of course there is some flexibility, but a Mozart piece should not sound like a Brahms piece. We get too much of mahlery Mozart and brahmsy Debussy.

-Sylvain

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