[F_minor] Re: F_minor Digest, Vol 6, Issue 7

[Peter Roosen-Runge <peter@cs.yorku.ca>]

Matthew Harding wrote
>    1. Happy Birthday, Mr. G (Matthew Harding)
>
> . . .
>  I see, you're saying you'd rather the technology was put to
> better use than to re-hash one of your old chestnuts,

 If by "technology", Matthew means the Zenph technology for creating 
very faithful "re-performances", it's hard to see why a performing 
(playing) a recorded work once more  counts as as a "rehash", any more 
than playing a CD again would.

 At any rate, I thought, the re-perfomance (at the CBC, Toronto) this 
noon was quite entertaining - even if the Yamaha piano producing the 
sounds was less than impressive.  I had the good fortune to be sitting 
fairly close to the front with a clear view of the pedals - so I 
learned something instructive to a very uneducated piano player --  
Gould's pedalling was light, never longer than a second or so, 
incredibly precise, and as far as I could tell only for giving colour 
to a chord, rather than to create a sostenuto of one tone held over 
other.

Mr. Walker made much of the "illusion" of a live performance, having 
the audience close their eyes, which indeed works  -- you get the clear 
feeling that you are listening to a real piano, being really played 
with great imagination and subtlety -- which you are!.  But of course, 
all that's live is what the piano and the hall create (in this case, 
overly live, even though the hall was almost full) producing a vivid 
result with much greater impact than a recording (isn't that why people 
pay to go hear solo performances?)

                 . . .  Peter Roosen-Runge 

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