Zim BENT 'bout BOOTIN'

…if I had been there, I wouldn’t have gotten busted-I hope.
Sousa

from the NY TIMES
November 3, 2006
Music Review
The Brahms Sonatas, Wrapped Around a Disruption

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Of the three sonatas for violin and piano by Brahms, the last one, in D minor, is by far the stormiest. Returning after a curiously long intermission during their recital at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night, a program devoted to the complete Brahms sonatas, the violinist Gidon Kremer and the pianist Krystian Zimerman tore into the agitated first movement of the D minor work, taking a bracing tempo and emphasizing its volatile mood swings.

The performers, especially Mr. Zimerman, may have been responding to more than the emotions in the music. When Mr. Zimerman walked out after intermission he looked fiercely angry. Jabbing his finger, he admonished a member of the audience seated in the first row.

Mr. Zimerman said the patron had been recording the recital during the first half, a spokeswoman from Carnegie Hall explained later. The intermission was prolonged because Mr. Zimerman had asked security officers at the hall to find the offender. The man was located, but house policy does not permit a patron to be evicted unless the infraction is observed. So a security officer was stationed nearby to make sure the man did not record anything. For extra measure Mr. Zimerman issued his stern warning.

In any event, whether heightened emotions contributed to the intensity of the music making, the performance of the D minor sonata by these towering musicians was stunning. Mr. Kremer has a built-in sentimentality detector that never fails him. So even when he shaped Brahms’s melodic phrases with luminous sound and expansive lyricism, his playing was focused, probing and mysterious. Mr. Zimerman played with great expressive freedom, giving phrases ample time to breathe. Yet he too demonstrated piercing intelligence, bringing out intricacies and conveying the inexorable sweep of this rhapsodic sonata.

There was grave beauty in their account of the wistful Adagio movement. They found the gremlins lurking beneath the impish surface of the scherzolike third movement. And the powerful finale, taken at a hellbent tempo, was tempestuous and commanding.

In the first half of the program they played the dreamy Sonata No. 1 in G and the stately Sonata No. 2 in A with misty textures and subdued intensity. Carnegie Hall is too large, ideally, for a violin and piano recital. Rather than exaggerate the music, Mr. Kremer and Mr. Zimerman were true to the intimate character of these works and drew their listeners in. I tend to like a little Bachian clarity in the rippling piano figurations of the melancholic last movement of the first sonata, music so personal you feel as if you are reading the composer’s diary. But it was impossible to resist the milky murmurings of Mr. Zimerman’s elegant playing.

Before offering encores, Mr. Zimerman, from what I could hear, apologized to the audience for the disruption and blamed a patron who was “trying to destroy our concert.†With that off his chest, he and Mr. Kremer gave a poetic account of a pensive, short piece by Eugene Ysaye and a sparkling rendition of playful movement from a Mozart sonata. All was peace and light again.

hahaha sheeeyat. da zim unleashes fury on both brahms and that audience member. hopefully hamelin wont do that when i rec his concert in november.

ahhahahahahaha da ZIM iz juz a ghey cunt

n wuteva rezpec i had fo hiz iz now lozt

as long as u wont sit in the 1st row, that incident is unlikely to occur.

My bootlegging mics are built into my glasses. Couple that with my long hair and nobody will ever catch me in the act.

do u alzo have camera built into your glassez?

:nar:

Daim, if I was a pianist I would be THRILLED if someone actully took time to record my concerts.

-da Meph

haahahah da canadian shows the tru james bond ztyle.

I’ve always wanted to bootleg concerts, but my issue is that assuming the performer doesn’t see, what if your neighbouring concertgoers take issue?

OR YOU COULD JUZT RECORD A BRENDEL RECITAL COZ EVERYBODY VIL BE FUCKING ZLEEPING.

yea, i wud also like to hear ppl’s experience in dis area. im going to see da dre in feb so i wanna bootleg it. im not sure whether i wud be able to conceal mah camera, so it wud haff to be usin recording stuff. anyone know anything good to use?

what i did is i hid the recorder in the pocket of my sweatshirt, which was on my lap. i used a small olympus recorder. its reallycompact and easy to use.

hahahaha i vil pozzibly azk da DOC if i meet him again wut hiz attitude on diz zubject iz :ho:

it’s an unfortunate event for da doc to encounter a guy like you.

minidisco.com/SoundPro-SP-EMC1

These are what I use. The sound is amazing. I’m bootlegging a Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in a few weeks, I’ll post that…

:rectum: approves