the pianists and what they practice

musicsdarkangel · February 15, 2006, 5:33pm

do ya know about different pianists, wut excersizes they practice/practiced?

Like da Horowitz do any excersizes, scales?

practice slowly/fast? high finger action?

i wanna know what pianists did wut

did anyone do Liszt excersizes?

1337-pI4aNi_t · February 15, 2006, 7:39pm

Rumor zays da Gensuiking practized mainly “in mind” only, while, say, on tha plane.

SteinwayModelD · February 15, 2006, 9:42pm

horowitz doesn’t practice after he turns 30

krittyot · February 15, 2006, 11:20pm

Artur Rubinstein practiced chop 10-2 before concerts. He kinda said that it’s the best study to warm up ur fingahz.

Hans Von Bulow’s recommendation is to practice chop 25-8 6 times before recitals. 25-8 is definitely one of da more difficult etudes if unleashed sub 1 min.

Horowitz plays Hanon throughout his life. Don’t think it as a boring study. There’s something special, otherwise Horowitz wudn’t play it throughout his life.

Ashley_Tervort · February 16, 2006, 3:37pm

HAHAHAHAHA bullsheeyat

SteinwayModelD · February 16, 2006, 5:59pm

tiz wuz in da Franz Mohr’z book

Rob · February 16, 2006, 8:51pm

hhaahahaha i ha v poiztgd thix lijk one hundred timez in the paqst it wud seem but hjere it iz agvasinm/;

tha ho prsctice regiment

cs.bsu.edu/homepages/kevinp/Horowitz.htm

rfzndomlyh typd thoixz poxztg wit gloveds on.,

da_JAL · February 17, 2006, 12:22pm

: practise?

musicsdarkangel · February 23, 2006, 10:32pm

thanks

yeah, dis is all interestin stuff. Horowitz didn’t practice much afta 30, which is why his tech went down

musicsdarkangel · March 13, 2006, 7:28am

Talked to Alexander Kobrin

he practices much slowly… fairly slow, very slow

also, at age 10-11, did much Hannon/tech excersizes.

Always does scales every day.

Excellent performance btw, did Schumann - C major Fantasie, Chopin 4 Scherzos, Nocturne op 9 no 3

Ashley_Tervort · March 13, 2006, 1:39pm

b. Nothing mechanical helps the technique

Formal exercises are bad for the ear and touch. They are not alive and are merely mechanical

hahaha da hanon theory

i think da HO muz haf praxxed inzane octz every day fo hiz whole youth

musicsdarkangel · March 13, 2006, 11:45pm

mos def.

SteinwayModelD · March 14, 2006, 1:04am

how does he achieve such dullness in his playing?

musicsdarkangel · March 15, 2006, 5:07am

you mean musicality?

I honestly have no idea how you can say that. Perhaps he isn’t Bravura, but not dull… but just watch his Gaspard. What is wrong with it? THAT is bravura

SteinwayModelD · March 15, 2006, 6:30am

it’s quite monotonous and uninspiring

close to hynotic in the brahms paganini va

Pita_Bread · March 15, 2006, 6:57am

Not only is his Gaspard boring as hell, it’s inaccurate too.

musicsdarkangel · March 20, 2006, 6:15pm

I can argue for years over this one, but I won’t.

If you just dig cheap thrills, then you won’t like him, but he’s a poet on the keys.

I do agree about the Brahms sucking ass though.

SteinwayModelD · March 20, 2006, 7:04pm

well for some reason people went crazy over that boring-ass interpretation in cliburn competition

i watched it live and i was like ‘WTF’.

Kobrin is probably around 10th among all the Cliburn Contestant last year. It’s quite unjustisfied that he won the competition.

Ever since Sultanov, I don’t think I agree with any 1st-prize decision of the cliburn competition.

krittyot · March 20, 2006, 7:36pm

Cliburn piano competition is 2nd rate competition.

The only world class piano ompetition is Tchaikovsky.

treefingerz_TS · March 20, 2006, 7:46pm

shouldnt the 2006 tchaikovsky be coming up soon?(or have I already missed it?)