Re: Dyens master class - Sor study #6

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:07:45 +0000, John Rimmer wrote:

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On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:11:00 +0000, John Rimmer wrote:

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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:40:30 -0700, Curmudgeon wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FWl3Q_O3c

That was an absolutely absurd reading of that piece. At least
he almost fixed the wrong measure in the original, but he
never played all the right notes, because it was right the
first time he played it except for the d instead of d-sharp,
but when he repeated the last line he played the d-sharp ok
but played the other mistakes. What could be the point of that?

Even when playing at that very slow tempo, there can be no
excuse for the muddy bass because of his failure to play
legato. Instead, he sustained all of the bass notes, thus
screwing the rhythm up hopelessly.

I like the piece to be fast, but his rendition was obtuse
at any tempo. He has no understanding of that piece at all.
daveA

Dave, what de heck are you talking about? He speaks French way better
than
you! Sor was French...right?

Wrong. He was Catalan. French would be his third language, Russian
and English his fourth and fifth. He could probably handle Italian
too. He might have learned it while still in Spain. That would
make French his fourth language, chronologically.

I especially don't give a crap what Dyens said, since he played
the piece cluelessly and revealed that he didn't understand
that music at all. It is an etude in *thumb muting* bass notes
when playing the following notes with the index. The notation
is perfectly clear. All he had to do was play the damn notes.
Is he some kind of mental defective or something? I know he can read.
Why didn't he? What business does he have giving master classes?
He is no master.

I didn't like his tempo, but that's another issue. Not my problem.
_de gustibus_...

John Marlow told me about the d-sharp decades ago, when I had already
fixed the following measure. I saw the original later, maybe in a
Brian Jeffrey book, I think, before there was any such thing as being on
line. The original is on line now. Dyens apparently had the ability to
repair the rest of the two measures in question but did not do so.
Incredible. Was he presenting alternatives? How lame is that?
daveA

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You are wound up pretty tight on this one! I was just foolin'...

Not at all. I wouldn't have teed off on him like that if he weren't out
there calling himself a "master". That's really asking for it. daveA

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