Yuja plays Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff Midsummer Night's Dream
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@klaus said in Yuja plays Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff Midsummer Night's Dream:
Impressive playing, of course, but the music itself strikes me as a superficial showpiece without much musical content.
+1, this is not typical of either Mendelssohn or Rachmaninoff.
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It is a scherzo, remember.
Also I think her version isn’t quite clear enough to make sense out of if you don’t know the piece.
Listen to the Vienna Phil play the original:
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Now Ruth Laredo:
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@jon-nyc agreed. Laredo's version seems "crisper," cleaner, perhaps.
But, I don't get the sense of musicality that Wang conveys. With Wang, I always feel that we're "going somewhere." Not so much with Laredo.
Laredo plays all the notes, but does she play all the music?
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