Murray Perahia on Bach

February 8, 2016 6:40 PM

Murray Perahia on Bach - a 28 minute chat at the piano.
posted by Wolfdog (8 comments total)

The artful delaying of resolution...key to all time-bound arts.
posted by kozad at 7:05 PM on February 8, 2016 [5 favorites]

Beautiful...
posted by njohnson23 at 7:24 PM on February 8, 2016

Thanks for the link.
posted by polymodus at 10:17 PM on February 8, 2016

Oh, I love his Bach interpretations. Thanks!
posted by persona au gratin at 10:48 PM on February 8, 2016

The artful delaying of resolution...key to all time-bound arts.

QFT. Holy cow, kozad! That really struck a chord in me. Thanks for that. Wow.
posted by mpark at 12:30 AM on February 9, 2016

This is lovely, mant thanks!
posted by carter at 3:58 AM on February 9, 2016

What's so nice about that man is that he is totally open-minded. 'Okay, I'm a modern pianist,' he seems to have thought, 'how do I make Bach work on a big stage and on my instrument?'

And then he gets himself a harpsichord and takes harpsichord lessons to get to know what you can do and cannot do on that instrument...And is able to speak about it all with authority.

It is not often that you hear your own instrument's* workings explained by the player of another instrument with so much ease and kindness...



* full disclosure: yes, I'm a professional harpsichordist...
posted by Namlit at 8:11 AM on February 9, 2016 [2 favorites]

Thank you so much for this!
posted by phenylphenol at 5:33 PM on February 11, 2016