Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Daniel Barenboim: pianissimo

When you have learned and played a Debussy pianissimo, and when you then return to a Beethoven pianissimo, you nkow even better what the differences are, and you realise you are dealing with two entirely different sounds. With Debussy the pianissimo has to be bodiless, and with Beethoven, it has to have a physical core of expression and sound.

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