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Author: Lam
Date: 2012-04-08 18:08
A video of the New York Phil player playing the Debussy Rhapsodie :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNqrfRzrz0
Great playing indeed ! but the pianist seems like doing sight-reading !
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2012-04-08 19:54
I believe the pianist is the wife of the clarinetist, Pascual Martinez-Forteza.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-04-08 19:55
Pascual Martínez-Forteza is a major league player. The pianist's full name is Gema Nieto-Forteza, so she's presumably Pascual's wife.
As in any live performance, there were a few small glitches, but I thought they both played very well. My only criticism is that the recording engineer put her in the background.
Ken Shaw
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2012-04-08 20:47
To carry Ken's comment further, I recall, in a post here, how one person was incredulous that Emma Johnson squeaked once during a concert he attended.
It's striking how many people are disappointed or otherwise put off by live performances.
We're so used to listening to "corrected," edited, and engineered tracks on commercial recordings that we expect--and sometimes demand-- that performers play flawlessly live, and that the sound will be as good as what we hear on recordings.
This is unfair to performers and unfair to those of us who insist on perfection from ourselves all the time and every time. It also give undue importance to the little glitches that happen to all of us from time to time--even the "greats."
B.
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Author: Lam
Date: 2012-04-09 05:24
Actually this is one of the very best version of the rhapsodie that I could find on youtube, alongside with Baldeyou's version. My comment is a little bit harsh for the pianist, of course if one listen to this high level of clarinet playing, one would also hope the piano part is perfect too, but yes its unfair for my comment, as there are many other factors affecting her performance : eg: an unfamiliar and bad piano with a bad sustaining pedal , which is surely in the case of this recording.
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Author: Dingo
Date: 2012-04-09 09:40
grifffinity wrote:
I believe the pianist is the wife of the clarinetist, Pascual Martinez-Forteza.
Ken Shaw wrote:
Pascual Martínez-Forteza is a major league player. The pianist's full name is Gema Nieto-Forteza, so she's presumably Pascual's wife.
I'm not sure, but I think that Pascual and Gema haven’t family relation (married couple). In Spain, the wife doesn't adopt the husband’s surname. And in Spain, normally, the people use two surnames, the first is the father’s surname and the second is the mother’s surname. Like I said, I´m not sure about this information but I think that it is a coincidence that Pascual Martínez and Gema Nieto share the same second surname, “Forteza”.
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