Saw Pierre-Laurant Aimard last night

[jon-nyc]

At 92nd st Y with Bootsy. Smallish venue.

Program was WTC Book 2 in its entirety.

[89th]

What kind of forum do you think this is, talking about piano?

[Klaus]

How was it?

[jon-nyc]

Very good. I’m not as familiar with book II, it’s so much more expansive and difficult-sounding than book I. He used quite a bit of pedal.

[Klaus]

I know you are not necessarily the biggest Bach fan, and neither am I.

I find some of the fugues particularly annoying after a while.

But you enjoyed it, obviously.

[jon-nyc]

I did but two hours of P&F was a lot. Not gonna lie.

[Horace]

Good background multitasking music, but a lot for active listening all the way through.

All from memory I assume? My old teacher played that same program.

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

No he read from the soft cover Henle edition. He had a page turner on the stage with him.

Funny thing was, at first he was turning his own pages despite the young man there next to him. I was thinking ‘what is he, your emotional support human?’ Then I realized he turned his own pages if they were between pieces or movements and the other guy turned them if they were in the middle of a piece.

[jon-nyc]

I saw him once before, at Carnegie hall, 15-20 years ago. He played Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes.

Come to think of it it was probably 20 years ago, since I remember I was working on them (well maybe half of them) at the time.