Thank You Judy for this. And Emily Reyn took the Chello player not the "beardy" David Fray [:D] ---
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/303208 <message/303208> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcGgmWStnM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcGgmWStnM> -who acquired a reputation for Glenn Gould-like eccentricity thanks to his repertoire of physical gestures and expressions (Seating on a high bench not low one like Glenn Gould, his long legs tucked under the piano and forehead almost touching the keyboard)trying`(?) to enhances his live performances for our Classic youngster. Thanks Cardy to give me the opportunity to send Emily, over the wide ocean a tiny small David Fray's Schubert performances excerpts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8fM_TxZ0Tw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8fM_TxZ0Tw> Here David Fray's Schubert performances excerpts showing his discerning musicality beneath the flamboyant surface, his tendency to fine down his tone to the slenderest thread of sound at the end of a particularly toothsome passage, or to insert tiny, self-conscious pauses as if placing a particular phrase in quotation marks, his exceptional command of color and touch, and the way he invariably uses that range of sound to point up musical structures and Schubert's particular constructions of subjectivity in a meaningful way. OTOH -One could also quibble about some of his tempi but shouldn't compare him with Artur Schnabel [:)] 1827, a year before his death, Franz Schubert wrote the Impromptus at the age of thirty. Franz loved living in the light, And didn't want to leave the countenance Suffering like a god, but knowing He would come again at the right time. It would have been wrong To cut off disloyally his work Which endures be interpreted well. The Trees by Philip Larkin: The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too, Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. .... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: > > > > Have no idea how famous this guy is: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2I0tQIA_AE > > Up and coming. I can do without the theatrics, but I've > never heard that movement of that concerto played better. > > Here's Gould for comparison (ending cut off, unfortunately): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXD_oD9As6U > > For my money, Gould doesn't get quite the same joie de vivre > out of the music that Fray does. May be partly the orchestra, > which plays a little more heavily than necessary, but Gould's > a shade on the heavy side as well, I think. >
