Tru chooze your favourite poetic 88-mofo/mofette
- Ignaz Paderewski
- Samson François
- Heinrich Neuhaus
- Samuel Feinberg
- Alfred Cortot
- Vladimir Sofronitsky
- Walter Gieseking
- Youra Guller
- Maria Yudina
- Maria Grinberg
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lol @ da midi-lover who chose dat alkoholik
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How wud u define ‘poetic’?
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‘Poetic’…
Dere wuz a young mofo named
Whose playing wuz awfully dim
He wuz so terribly zlow
Dat mofoz shouted Oh No
My fucking tube feed is filled up with… HIM
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Something like
- having an imaginative and/or sensitively emotional style of expression
- expressing the qualities of poetry
Tru, tiz a bit vague, juz like da word ‘romantic’…
But diz can mean anyone, zenzitively emotional INCLUDEZ fury 
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Pff den don’t vote mofo if da def iz not clear to you
I’m not sure it can be defined. In a way the sense of it is kind of cultivated, so you instinctually feel it when it comes about. It also helps you differentiate from what isn’t it (
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I used to have an instinctive feel for what poetry is, but reading the classics lately - known as poets - has somewhat messed that up.
Tru the more you learn the more confused you become 
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Haha I izn’t complainin about diz , I iz juzt obzervin dat zo many ov ma fav peniztz iz not optionz and I wud defend deir poetic penizm 
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Who, for example?
When it “says something”
Friedman zhud be an option
But doez poetic bazically mean moizt? iz diz bazically azkin which peniztz haf da bezt moizt? 
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His famous rec. of da 
Nocturne is obviously very poetic.
I’d say that I’d look for da main characteristic of a pianist. Not sure that in Friedman’s case it wuz dominated by poetry, though his playing wuz often imaginative…
For me, da Fried’s style is more about bravura, rhythm, colour and instrumental subtleties than about pure poetry…(and perhaps da same is true for da HOF)
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Creativity and ingenuity is at the heart of both as well I think. In many ways I think it’s what defines their whole generation.
Basta - in the Virgillian sense of poetry my pick is Sofronitsky from the above. But I can’t make up my mind who I’d pick in the more traditional, stereotypical sense of the word. Indeed I can’t think of anyone at all, and yet I know I’ve thought about it with several. Among composers it’s much more clear. It’s Liszt in the classical sense and Chopin in the everyday use of the word.
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You don’t need to worry about dis because dese things are not poetikal
rubato+overdotting
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