Re: Argerich's Kinderzenen at Lugano late June

On Jul 8, 10:29 pm, bjorn <bjorn.ostl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 8, 12:22 pm, Toby Winston <Toby_Wins...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jul 8, 5:04 am, and...@xxxxxxxxx (Andrys Basten) wrote:

In article <m1ejjk9fey....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert Marshall <robert$spam01...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't see this misalignment in firefox unless I'm missing
something. Though it is rather difficult to cross check on this
machine as it doesn't have IE...

So the Mac's Firefox interprets the tables correctly?

How odd. I first noticed oddness when I 'saw' that she was playing
the Saint-Saen Concerto :-) It looked perfectly lined up
but on my Windows pc, the composer and works were mismatched.

>Many thanks for this!

Glad you're enjoying it too. The audio when I heard the
Kinderszenen was unusually clear. I am on pretty fast broadband
though.

- A

--http://www.andrys.com

Not being much of a pianist myself, I found Argerich's performance
pretty special and highly enjoyable. A pity she hasn't recorded solo
repetoire in ages (my understanding). Any other impressions of this
performance?

I had the great fortune to be in the hall that night. She played in
the small radio auditorium in Lugano. You seldom get any closer to the
music than this.

I found her playing free, full of imagination. Her rubato was always
natural, never overdone. And yet, this reading was more extreme than
her DG recording from 1983, her last solo disc. The fast sections were
faster, the slow sections were slower.

What was simply ravishing was her sound. She produced the most
delicate pianissimos, a sublime but distinct sound, that carried out
to the listener. Somtimes single notes appeared to be hanging in the
ear for ever. She did something similar in the ending of the slow
movement of the Schumann Quartet last year. The result was magical.
This was recently released by EMI, in excellent sound.

Björn Östlund, Sweden.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thank you for your response. Your impressions from being at the actual
event (I am envious) are also a perfect description for my reaction to
the streamed audio I heard from the website.

.

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