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Post Subject: Fresh DebussyPosted by Paul S on: 1/18/2009
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)
G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above. In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as though he is inventing them as he plays. I think without analyzing it too much that he does some sort of "hesitation", as though "waiting" for the notes to come to him, as though he were "channeling" them. Anyway, it is not at all gimicky but very fresh, and I find the effect quite rewarding in musical terms.
I often wish G would find and use a better piano, and the recording is not that great; but G is on his game here with an original approach that simply vivifies these pieces.
After all these years, I owe to Geiseking this interest in recorded Debussy.
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