Musicon / Nielsen / Nielsen, Piano Pieces - Leif Ove Andsnes
Since BIS destroyed Elisabeth Westenholz’s interpretation of Nielsen’s piano works, I tried with another version. This one does not contain the complete works, but only a selection in just one CD, by the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. What a dynamic and subtle perfomance! The sound is fair ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Playing the Piano: Strength of finger must be coupled with strength of thought
In one respect, it may be said that the mechanics of piano playing represent a low plane of artistic activity, a fact which ought always to be remembered whenever the temptation is felt greatly to exalt the technique of the art; but it must also be borne in mind that the mechanical nature of ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Piano: A lack of sustaining power
Despite all the skill, learning, and ingenuity which have been spent on its perfection, the piano can be made only feebly to approximate that sustained style of musical utterance which is the soul of melody, and finds its loftiest exemplification in singing. To give out a melody perfectly, ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Musical education / Significance of the piano
To follow the progressive development of the mechanical principles underlying the piano, one would be obliged to begin beyond the veil which separates history from tradition, for the first of them finds its earliest exemplification in the bow twanged by the primitive savage. Since a recognition ::More
Musicon / Music and Literature / Were we of genuine music and poetry?
Suddenly the forgotten melody of those notes of the piano came back to me again. It soared aloft like a soap bubble, reflecting the whole world in miniature on its rainbow surface, and then softly burst. Could I be altogether lost when that heavenly little melody had been secretly rooted within ::More
