- Virtuoso passages are transformed into bursts of fury; the temptation to exhibit mastery becomes the challenge to let emotion rule.
- Seemingly trivial figures flitting around following such passages become flickering flames released by the eruption.
- Unease drives.
- Tenderness is reflective, longed for, deeply simple.
- Ordinary triads become singular events.
Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
What Difference Does Opera Make?
A report on the effect of playing Schubert's B-flat Sonata as opera rather than sonata: