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“A book about Mr. Lebrecht’s ‘search for Gustav Mahler,’ as he calls his obsession, this is also a book about Mr. Lebrecht, a far less compelling subject.” [NYT]
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Apart from some of the wrong notes (and without reading comments on this video on youtube first please) what is wrong with this video?
Before I go to read comments as you forbid, I’d say:
1. I don’t care about a few wrong notes. But he doesn’t seem terribly musically involved with what he is performing.
2. The phrasing at the beginning of the piece is very wooden and then thankfully it loosens up half way through.
I don’t know what the purpose of this video is but it is OK. He has a rather nice sound – but whether he is really good one can’t decide from a piece like that in the same way you immediately can from a piece of Chopin or Prokofiev. (PS: He may want to ensure the piano is completely tuned cos some notes sounded slightly out and I’m not going to listen again to tell you where!)
Anyway, I’m not a pianist so just my 2c.
Aha! I thought there was something odd going on! You got me!
It’s not related to Mahler or opera?
Okay, nice looking kid — we’ll get that out of the way first, but I can’t figure how they filmed it in a mirror without having the camera show up in the mirror, because his left hand is playing the treble and his right is playing the lower notes. Weird,.
No need for a mirror–flipping the image horizontally is easy on many editing programs. (Why they’d want to do it here is another question entirely.)
And speaking of Mahler, and this is a notice especially posted for the benefit of the exigent NERVA NELLI in particular, that Ichabod Crane of Lieder, *Ian Bostridge*, will be singing in Das Knaben Wunderhorn with the Phil very soon. Just heard it on the radio this morn.
You have had your Warnung, Nerva!
Steer clear or Ichabod may enchant you.
An insight into the secret of Norm’s success.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2010/12/on_the_book_trail_intersecting.html
A little chutzpah can get you a long way.
Lebrecht was on BBC Radio 3 today working himself up into his customary self-righteous lather about a couple of new books, admonishing one writer for not doing his research properly (pot and kettle or wot?) and, in the other case, making a typically spurious and unexplained connection between the Third Reich’s appropriation of Mozart and Philips Classics’ 1991 release of a complete Mozart edition.