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Kissin and him are the only two pianists who play it correctly? This guy is really funny. I mean he is really funny.
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Originally posted by op30no3: Originally posted by Theowne:
[b] It seems like this video comes up and is insulted a lot, but I can't understand why nobody comments on the actual comment he is making.
I have never played this rhapsody and I am not familiar with the score.
So can someone actually bother to tell us whether Kastle's claim is accurate? Do other pianists modify the way the piece is written, and is he playing it correctly?
His playing is also bad--he just slams down the pedal and plays bad-sounding notes with no dynamics or sense of balance or control.
I looked up the animations that were supposed to have won awards at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, and it is TRUE! I have no idea why, but he really did win a best director's award... [/b]I agree that his performance of it is very sub-par. Lacks clarity and excitement. So, are you positive both hands are the same but a 16th note apart? Basically, is he blowing smoke?
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Originally posted by Jeff135: Originally posted by op30no3: [b] Originally posted by Theowne:
[b] It seems like this video comes up and is insulted a lot, but I can't understand why nobody comments on the actual comment he is making.
I have never played this rhapsody and I am not familiar with the score.
So can someone actually bother to tell us whether Kastle's claim is accurate? Do other pianists modify the way the piece is written, and is he playing it correctly? His claim is absolutely ridiculous. Everything he says is ridiculous. The right and left hand parts are exactly the same, simply played with the right hand a sixteenth note (I think that's the right note value; haven't looked at the score in a couple years) later than the left. There are no "separate tracks" needed. This part of the piece is not hard, and nobody fakes it. Playing the octaves together would make it harder, not easier, anyway, IMHO. His playing is also bad--he just slams down the pedal and plays bad-sounding notes with no dynamics or sense of balance or control. I looked up the animations that were supposed to have won awards at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, and it is TRUE! I have no idea why, but he really did win a best director's award... [/b]
So, are you positive both hands are the same but a 16th note apart?
Basically, is he blowing smoke? [/b]I actually believe that, yes, both hands are the same but a 16th note apart... But, don't have the score here (as well). Can anybody, with the score, check please, because I'm starting to have doubts about my memory... I can't say I enjoyed those 40 secs in the video, but it's 40 secs, I would prefer them to stop talking and play a bit more, instead of insulting everyone on the planet...
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Had a look at the score. Would have thought Rach 3 cadenza is more difficult. When I was 15 I often played or 'faked' the Liszt in a different key and transposed it. Nothing more than standard Grade 9. Difficult for a few hours and after that the pattern is easily memorised. I don't follow all this "auto-pilot" stuff he was on about, but I think he has an approxiamate grasp of the psychology involved.
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Originally posted by Arabesque:
Had a look at the score. Would have thought Rach 3 cadenza is more difficult. When I was 15 I often played or 'faked' the Liszt in a different key and transposed it. Nothing more than standard Grade 9. Difficult for a few hours and after that the pattern is easily memorised. I don't follow all this "auto-pilot" stuff he was on about, but I think he has an approxiamate grasp of the psychology involved. His psychology is rubbish--a good pianist is never, ever on "auto-pilot." There is no difficult trick to playing that part. I know that the parts are exactly the same and have no doubts. Nothing he says has any validity whatsoever.
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Heh,
the more I listen to him the more I dislike him. I think it's funny how he is slamming other pianists/musicians because he himself can't get famous.
I wonder why...
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Who cares. I don't waste my time analyzing nut jobs. It's not my profession.
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I don't have the technical ability to say whether his claims about performances of difficult passages being faked have merit. But there is something I recognize here. Every now and then, we physicists encounter scientific crackpots and outright charlatans. He sounds a lot like them. The similarities are:
1. He is the only person who really knows the truth - all the experts are wrong or outright liars. Fake physicists are all smarter than Einstein.
2. He doesn't present his claims in a way that can be substantiated. In science, the charlatans publish popular books, not refereed journal articles. In his case, he explains in an interview with an actor who doesn't know anything about music. You don't see him sitting down with a real pianist, demonstrating the flaws, or playing recordings at slow speeds so fast passages can be clearly followed.
3. Fame and fortune are passing him by unfairly. It's a conspiracy.
The signs are all there: nut-job.
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Originally posted by Paul Kolodner:
nut-job. bingo
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very interesting post Paul
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
J.S. Bach
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I agree it is a conspiracy, one that apparently holds no validity (according to people who have confirmed that the score indicates that the ending passage is simply the same notes a 16th note apart).
It doesn't help that his voice is so damn annoying though.
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He must have been a bottle fed as a child.
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