Tchaikovsky’s first concerto was not only the composer’s first piano concerto, but also the first significantly recognized piano concerto in Russian music. Understanding the responsibility of writing not only “musical history”, but also the history of Russia, Tchaikovsky invested a huge amount of imagery, emotions, and art paintings in this concerto, foresaw his own…
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Night thoughts
Over the 8 years that have passed since writing the book, it has gone from being looked at with disdain, to becoming somewhat understood and admired. The headline of “recent tour in Russia 2010” read that it seems “all of Russia” is beautifully polarized In its unalloyed hatred, on the one hand, while on the…
If you understood the music – you understood life.
Andrei Gavrilov December 30, 2017 Tips of music homeopathy. Completed and expanded 2018. If you understood the music – you understood life. If you understand Chopin – you have become an extraordinarily subtle psychologist and human. Take care of your nerves. Dress warmer up and keep your feet dry. No diets! Let yourself have…
UPD For those who tugging me in any Soviet/Russian or “music business” mass media materials and associate my name with “Tchaikovsky competition” and other Soviet/Russian pseudo-near-the-music rubbish political propaganda – never do it again please. I also do not belong to “music business”. By any means. It is insulting for music and for me as…
Short interview with Lithuanians
You have seen and played in the most beautiful and the biggest stages in the world. Many critics of music have a good opinion about you, moreover you have a lot of important and huge music awards. If you could go back to your childhood, did that kid would proud of nowadays Andrei Gavrilov? Did…
Mussorgsky Self Portrait from “Pictures at an exhibition”
As you remember, in one of the episodes I had an idea that it would’ve been nice to take advantage of the modern possibilities of home electronics and technology to cut out everything that had to do with physiognomy, with the self-portrait of Modest Petrovich, and to put it all together, to be able to…
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlO4IxFTks Promenade [00:00] In this first piece Mussorgsky makes his presence known through this motivic musical self-portrait: this main theme and its motives are at once wonderful, ironic, sad and at the same time funny, bitter and at the same time sweet. The whole work is devoted to portraying his “physiognomy,” with this title theme outlining…
Мое понимание “формулы идеального исполнителя”
По просьбе друзей. Мое понимание “формулы идеального исполнителя”. Идеальный музыкант-исполнитель – это проявление высшей формы эмпатии. Это межличностная идентификация между композитором и исполнителем. Мысленная, чувствуемая и действенная. Полная идентификация с психологической и нравственной сущностью личности композитора. Der ideale Musiker-Darsteller ist eine Manifestation der höchsten Form von Empathie. Dies ist eine zwischenmenschliche Identifikation zwischen dem Komponisten…
Schumann “Symphonic Etudes”. Etude 2 . Part 4
When writing about the next series, it is difficult to rid the mind of “regular thoughts on the topic.” The influence of these thoughts pains the body and the soul. Our memory has become clouded by the hundreds of “interpretations”, penned by both the dead and the living, by the famous and the infamous, from…
Schumann “Symphonic Etudes”. Etude 1 . Part 3
Since our dear Dima (Dmitri Nilov) is working hard not sparing himself and his time, I don’t want to hold on to this nice episode, first variation. Publishing it right away. Hope it give you an aesthetic pleasure. Schuman is not just musically talented, but he is also a great producer, playwright, and innovator. He…
Schumann “Symphonic Etudes”. Theme. Part 2
From the world of one consciousness, where we had been living for half a year, from consciousness of wonderful Russian man, Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky, we are moving and diving into another consciousness – world of Robert Schumann. Since music became my life and my world (not long ago) where I feel myself very comfortable and…
Unzipped classical music. Schumann “Symphonic Etudes”. Introduction. Part 1
The second “object” of our musical series appears to be so enigmatic for modern mind in its content, so whole, separate, so “non-musical”, that a preamble is required. A philosophical “literary aesthetic “introduction. Without such an introduction even, specialist will have difficulties to understand musically-artistic images and details of the delicate world of Planet Schumann….
Reminder
Classical music is not about melodies, passages or harmonies in “different moods” for “pleasing our senses”. Serious music consists from highly compressed “sound files” in which the entire person with all its emotions and experiences locked up in combinations of tones. “Uploaded” in music as in highly advanced computer programm. The task of the performer…
Frederic Chopin (English)
Chopin is using language of XIX century middlebrow, ordinary European music lover . This musical language was used by “languorous ladies”, “cultured officers” and all other “sensual” very sentimental ladies and gentlemen. They are John Field, Oginski, Griboedov and all the others able to take a feather and to write some notes. That’s why Chopin…
Paradigm shift needed
Музыканты из ЛА откликаются на наш ФБ. Good, good. Slow but sure. Paradigm shift needed 🙂 Забавно, что это говорит известный дирижер. Т.е. он понимает, что 99% музыкантов не имеют отношение к музыке. А к чему имеют? И зачем они зовутся “музыкантами”? И что заставляет этого же дирижера акцептировать такое положение вещей? Вопросы без ответов….
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