Yuja plays Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff Midsummer Night's Dream
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wrote on 24 Jul 2021, 16:38 last edited by
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wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 00:28 last edited by SD Tav
Sterling playing by Yuja for sure. Matches Sergei's own performance. It sounds like Yuja starts faster, but Sergei ends 3 seconds earlier. I'd like to hear Yuja play the other transcriptions.
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wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 00:36 last edited by jon-nyc
Have you ever heard Ruth Laredo‘s version? It’s stunningly crisp.
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wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 17:57 last edited by
Impressive playing, of course, but the music itself strikes me as a superficial showpiece without much musical content.
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Impressive playing, of course, but the music itself strikes me as a superficial showpiece without much musical content.
wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 22:32 last edited by@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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wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 22:58 last edited by jon-nyc
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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wrote on 25 Jul 2021, 23:09 last edited by
Now Ruth Laredo:
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Now Ruth Laredo:
Link to videowrote on 26 Jul 2021, 00:21 last edited by@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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@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?
wrote on 26 Jul 2021, 06:37 last edited by@george-k said in Yuja plays Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff Midsummer Night's Dream:
plays all the notes, but does she play all the music?
Wow, that’s deep
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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:
Link to videowrote on 26 Jul 2021, 07:34 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Yuja plays Mendelssohn/Rachmaninoff Midsummer Night's Dream:
It is a scherzo, remember.
You mean, like the Chopin scherzi are scherzi?
