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In the Thread: An Afternoon with Gary Karr
Post Subject: The Spirit of Kousevitsky and the pop flavor.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/4/2009
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I would disagree. In the CD has a phenomenal in my view transcription of Scriabin’s etiudes, the trash #6 and 8 in particular. I do not sense any pop flavor in them. It has a slightly overly dramatized, almost theatrical-like feeling. The very few piano attempts of the same have etiudes have that drama. The Scriabin himself played it dryer I would say. Still, I do not think that other piano versions or the Scriabin himself shall be some kind of reference. What Karr did with those etiudes was very self-complete and I like them a lot. If I blame Mr. Karr in his play Scriabin then I would say that it is too straight forward. Scriabin in more convoluted and shall be played more "broken"… The Horowitz’s play in Moscow is NOT the play that I like but it gives some illustration how “inner-confusing” it might be..
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