Ned Rorem in Nantucket - 12 October, 1984
from The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, page 520:
A performance last night on Channel 30 of Ravel's Concerto in G by Michelangeli, Celibidache conducting. Michelangeli has always represented what I most dislike in piano playing, especially in the playing of Ravel. In 'melodic passages' his left hand forever anticipates the right, a nineteenth-century mannerism inappropriate to the concision of harmony innate in Ravel. Celibidache meanwhile is concision personified: the music is a corpse laid out for his exquisite incisions.
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Ned Rorem, The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, volume 2 (San Francisco, 1987), p. 520. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435934963799 accessed: 1 December, 2024
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Piano Concerto in G
written by Maurice Ravel |
performed by Sergiu Celibidache, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 12 October, 1984 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Fri, 03 Jul 2015 15:49:24 +0100
Approved on Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:38:52 +0000