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Post by air on Jun 27, 2010 21:10:54 GMT -5
The musician's musician. The poetic pianist. As Daniel Barenboim said, Cortot “always seeks the opium in the music.”
Discuss this great musical mind here.
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Post by air on Jun 27, 2010 21:22:29 GMT -5
Cortot is as well-known for his sloppy technique as he is for his great musicality. Contrary to popular belief, however, Cortot possessed a fabulous technique, having the ability to perform such works as the Liszt b minor sonata flawlessly. Some of his famous recordings of the Chopin Etudes are also a testament to this. However, many of his greatest recordings suffer from an abundance of wrong notes, merely because Cortot never cared to maintain a technique. I have heard what is probably the greatest Symphonic Etudes of all time almost wrecked because of this. Nevertheless, the strength of his interpretations more than makes up for its technical flaws and makes any Cortot recording something very much worth hearing.
I am very interested to hear Cortot in composers besides Chopin and Schumann. Many pianophiles tell me that his Debussy, Weber, and Franck are among the best. So I will have to check those out at some point.
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