The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (42): There’s more to Gorecki
mainHis harpsichord concerto, for instance. Played by a pianist with a Paderewski hairstyle.
His harpsichord concerto, for instance. Played by a pianist with a Paderewski hairstyle.
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
The Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The Theater an der Wien, back home after…
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What a silly coment! And you don’t mention her name…!
It is Elisabeth Chojnacka (born Elżbieta Ukraińczyk; 10 September 1939 – 28 May 2017) a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world’s foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music.
Ain’t that Elżbieta Chojnacka?
I believe this is the Polish harpsichordist Elizabeth Chojnacka.
I don’t know any Paderewki. There’s Paderewski.
This is Elżbieta Chojnacka, a woman who had even more charisma than my favourite Martha Argerich has…
It is not a concerto for harpsichord and strings, but a piece (not a concerto) for strings with accompaniment of a harpsichord. And it is a very primitive piece, not in the sense of Stravinsky’s primitivism which was a sophisticated, very inventive invocation of primitivism (‘primitive but with all the modern comforts’ as Debussy said), but primitive in the sense of laking ideas and sophistication. One simplistic idea is milked-out till halfway of the piece, the ‘solo instrument’ only perceptable as a noise in the background, then 1 minute where you can actually hear the soloist, then it disappears again in the hammering nonsense till 8:41 with the shortest solo in the repertoire – merely a little fragment – and then, finished. Two ideas in which hardly any thinking has gone, milked-out in fortissimo repetitions, in such unsophisticated way, without any apparant understanding of what a harpsichord is and how it combines with other instruments – it’s not serious. Even for a student the piece would have to be dismissed as incompetent.
It is not her fault the hairdressers are all closed.
I get my haircut under the bacon slicer at Sainsbury’s