Download e-book for iPad: After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern by Kenneth Hamilton

By Kenneth Hamilton

Kenneth Hamilton's publication engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked delusion of a very good culture, or Golden Age of Pianism. it's written either for avid gamers and for participants in their audiences via a pianist who believes that scholarship and clarity can move hand-in-hand. Hamilton discusses in meticulous but vigorous aspect the performance-style of serious pianists from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far-from-inevitable improvement of the piano recital. He entertainingly recounts how classical concert events developed from exuberant, occasionally riotous occasions into the formal, funereal trotting out of predictable items they are often this day, how a frequently unhistorical "respect for the rating" started to change pianists' improvisations and variations, and the way the scientific customized arose that an viewers may be obvious and never heard.

Pianists will locate meals for suggestion the following on their repertoire and the traditions of its functionality. Hamilton chronicles why pianists of the previous didn't consistently start a section with the 1st observe of the ranking, nor finish with the final. He emphasizes that anxiousness over unsuitable notes is a comparatively contemporary psychosis, and enjoying fullyyt from reminiscence a comparatively fresh requirement.

Audiences will come upon a bright account of the way significantly diversified are the recitals they attend in comparison to concert events of the prior, and the way their very own position has reduced from noisily energetic members within the live performance adventure to passive recipients of inventive benediction from the degree. they'll become aware of while cowed listeners finally stopped applauding among activities, and why they stopped conversing loudly in the course of them.

The book's wide message pronounces that there's not anything divinely ordained approximately our personal concert-practices, programming and piano-performance kinds. Many features of the trendy method are unhistorical-some laudable, a few purely ludicrous. also they are a ways faraway from these fondly, if deceptively, remembered as constituting a Golden Age.

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