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Re: A question for all you Gouldians

In my personal opinion, I have never been satisfied with any interpretation other than a Euro-based one.  Has anyone heard Woo Paik?  Saw him perform at Albert Hall, Ravel's G (two handed) with LSO (avec Claudio A), writhing a la Pogorelich (he must have studied a video!).  He was visually and technically entertaining, but there was no soul there in his playing.  The culture is in the cells, regardless of where a person trains.  A pianist friend of mine is Korean, studied at the Moscow in the '70s, but is still a Korean pianist through and through.  Never liked her Chopin - no feeling - but her Schoenberg was terrific!

Juozas Rimas wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leah Stanwyck" <lstanwyk@ryerson.ca>
To: "Juozas Rimas" <JuozasRimas@TAKAS.LT>
Cc: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: A question for all you Gouldians


I know too many pianists who, although brilliant technically, suck at
musicality.   With all due respect, many pianists from cultures other
than Euro-based have difficulty understanding (and empathizing) with
occidental musical passion.

a slight correction - IF the pianists are brought up in the non-Euro-based
background. If they receive training in Europe/US since tender years,
there's no way they could be regarded as being from diferent culture. Also,
I don't believe the families in China that are training their children to
play the piano, listen to Chinese music all the time at home. Some of the
children perhaps have never heard that native music. And if they have heard
3 hours of Chinese music in their lives, compared to 500 hours of classical
music, they can hardly be regarded as being confined to Chinese culture
either.
So the lack of passion may have other causes. What about poor teachers who
kill individualities? :)


Juozas Rimas Jr (not the one playing)
http://www.mp3.com/juozasrimas (oboe, piano, strings)