RE: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

This also reminds me of the Kempf recordings of Bach. They are played
with a soft white glove and slowly.  So utterly unlike the sharp and
crisp articulation of GG, but still it is all Bach one way or the other.
Just as lovely but very soft edges.  

GG had a funny way of being pulled towards velocity.  Take his Brahms
piano solo stuff.  He can sometimes just pick up the piece and play it
as if he was holding a newborn baby, with such delicacy and gentleness.
Other times he is on his Harley Davidson, burning rubber and smoking the
notes.   His approach was not predictable for any composer.  You look at
how orderly, unmannered and straight his approach was to the English
Renaissance composers.  Such incredibly clean musical lines you've never
heard before.  

What is again and again so admirable about GG is him forcing you to
examine the interior worlds of the music from a fresh perspective.  If
you have to get there in a Ferrari, fine.  If you have to get there in a
Rickshaw, then also fine.  It is the lasting impression, the lights that
go off in your head, that matter most.

Cheers,

Fred


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