Re: Hough on Chopin tempi

On Feb 14, 8:01�am, JohnGavin <dagd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:12�am, "LaVirtu...@xxxxxxx" <LaVirtu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





On Feb 12, 9:43 am, John T <jct1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 3:34 pm, td <tomdedea...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 9:10 am, John T <jct1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 1:58 pm, td <tomdedea...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 8:27 am, Rugby <steveha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

His blog here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/stephen_hough/blog/2009/02/09/agile_wing...

Hough's Carnegie recital is tonight. Anyone here planning to be
there ?

Wild horses, as they say.....

Couldn't drag you there, or couldn't drag you away?

LOL!

Let's put it this way. I ain't goin to New York.

TD

Neither am I (it's a long walk), but that's no reflection on Hough's
playing. I haven't heard hisChopinyet, but his recordings of Hummel
and Saint-Saens are immensely enjoyable, IMO, of course.

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I wish I could go. �The program is listed on the Carnegie Hall site.

Hough is somewhat of a wizard. �Another thing--Hough applies
relentless self discipline and hard work where other great pianists
apply passion and risk-taking. �So Hough always gets the bullseye.

I don't think so. �I like him at times, but IMO he misses the bullseye
more times than he hits it. �What he often lacks on his recordings is
real fire. �At least on recordings he excels at more genteel music.


I've seen him in live performance and have spoken with him. His mind
is high velocity.
He is assured at the piano and carefully balances everything so that
there are no
extravagent outbursts. Everything is carefully measured. He's
really a pianists' pianist.

There's always a sense that he's driving himself because that's just
his nature.
He's a fabulous technician and also deserves some credit for launching
compositions of his own. �

Well, you're mostly speaking about arrangements (although I am aware
of a few short originals). �But I agree that it is a plus for a
pianist to add anything to the repertoire.

IMO, a pianist should perform mostly his own compositions. That
should be the new agenda.
Variations are fine. As long as it's new and it's good.

Here's a terrific new composer

http://my.voyager.net/~duffie/tower.html

Piano is used in her work, as well as ensemble.
Hough should write more.

***********************Val
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