The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (259): Maximal minimal

The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (259): Maximal minimal

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norman lebrecht

December 13, 2020

Tension, release, retense

 

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  • sebastian says:
    December 13, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    what an overrated artist.
    vanity, egocentrism, mediocrity is perfectly unified.

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    • RW2013 says:
      December 14, 2020 at 10:11 am

      Can you be a little more specific in justifying this grand statement, or are you just regurgitating something that you’ve read somewhere else?

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  • John Borstlap says:
    December 14, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    It sounds like a first-year piano student trying to sight-read a Debussy prelude.

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  • John Porter says:
    December 15, 2020 at 1:37 pm

    Cue all the Cage and Feldman haters…

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    • John Borstlap says:
      December 15, 2020 at 10:39 pm

      Actually, Feldman is probably the best sonic artist, since his patterns are aesthetically so well-conceived and often very beautiful. But that does not work so well on the piano because of lack of colouristic variety.

      Feldman’s ‘Coptic Light’ is a masterpiece of sound art, because of the colours:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgS37X4P2hM

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    • Dan says:
      December 16, 2020 at 4:06 pm

      Actually this video made me discover Cage’s “In a landscape” which I plan to play at a concert….

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