the Rachmaninov Three is also a monument
of our culture, mighty and magnificent
Andrejs Osokins makes it resplendent,
transcendent
I’d earlier berated him for being unkempt,
unprepared for his, after all, public, and
surely not gratis, performance, but here
he utterly redeems himself, he is
possessed, an instrument of the music
Andrejs Osokins could win, all bets are
therefore off
Richard
the Parthenon
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in the last phase of the Arthur Rubinstein
Piano Master Competition, wherein
contestants play with the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, of course
resounding works abound, among those
Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto holds
a revered place, in our culture it stands
right up there with the Parthenon, the
Roman Coliseum, the Cathedral at
Chartres, as an icon, an emblem, of
our civilization
here Seong-jin Cho gives it an impeccable,
an irreproachable, rendering, lights it up,
sets it on very fire
don’t not watch
Richard
we’ve reached the finals at the Arthur
Rubinstein International Piano Master
Competition, the 6 remaining of the 16
contestants, after a second piano solo
round, were, none of them, ones I
would’ve selected, to my profound
irritation
a friend expressed such disgust after
Germany beat her favoured Brazil in
a recent soccer match
will you keep on watching, I asked,
she’d already been watching
I opted to also do the same
it‘s like soccer, I suggested, but for
nerds, for her to get my picture
with his second performance, of
Beethoven’s exhilarating 1st Piano
Concerto, after a rousing Brahms
Piano and Strings Quartet, his opus
25, during the first of the Finals
round, Steven Lin knocks the ball,
I think, right out of the ballpark
and into the very ages, watch, I
predict, this guy outright fly
Richard
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