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Paul
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(8/1/01 7:36:11 pm)
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Britten
Sonata
Has anyone every played this?
I've watched some video of
Slava playing it and he doesn't do ALL riccochet in the last
movement. What a relief! 
Paul Tseng
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Xabur1342
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(8/1/01 8:29:55 pm)
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Britten
Sonata
I've performed this piece a few times.
I really love it. The
recording of Rostropovich playing it with Britten at the piano is
amazing. Slava is ofcourse amazing but I was pleasantly surprised
how wonderful a pianist Britten is. He is such a sensitive
pianist... not just a genius composer. Everything else on that CD is
good too.
Looking at the score there are so many amazing
things that happen. Like rhythmic shifts all over the place in the
last movement. Like the place in the first movement where the cello
has those triplets and the cello and piano sound like they are
totally out of whack with each other and suddenly come out together
at the end perfectly. Its weird because if you try to find a way to
make it less out of whack, more metered, add accents on certain
beats to make it easier, it actually sounds too
comfortable.
Btw, it took me forever to get those long
alternating two-handed pizzicattos sections to work in the Scherzo.
The left hand pizzes invariably softer than the right hand if it
plucks them at the top of the fingerboard. I think in some places
you actually have to have the left hand lower than the right hand to
make them sound even. Also I used different fingers in each hand.
Even the third finger in the left hand below the second finger in
the right hand for one of them to get just the right
sound.
Great piece. Have fun with it.
Xabur
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Xabur1342
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(8/1/01 8:33:07 pm)
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last
If you are playing it now of course. I may have gotten a bit too
specific at the end there.
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Christopher
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(8/1/01 9:15:29
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Re: Britten
Sonata
I've read that Briiten was considered to be a supreme accompanist.
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Tracie
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(8/1/01 9:20:22 pm)
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Re: Britten
Sonata
Britten's accompaniment of Slava on the Arpeggione Sonata is truly
sublime. It's so good it almost makes me think "shush Slava! I'm
trying to hear the piano!" (I said
"almost"!)
Mmmm.
Good pianoing.
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