A first response to Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Aldeburgh Festival recital
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16 June
A performance-night response to Pierre-Laurent Aimard's intricate and exact steps around the theme of dance, and how movements work together, at Snape Maltings during Aldeburgh Festival on Friday 16 June 2017 at 7.30 p.m.
Tonight we welcomed back Pierre-Laurent Aimard to Snape Maltings Concert Hall for a typically brilliant programme of dances for piano. pic.twitter.com/eFTsmZ4qxZ— Snape Maltings (@snapemaltings) June 16, 2017
Maybe an exaggeration (disguising wider principles of how movements were arranged) that the first half was in the minor, the second major ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 16, 2017
Programming the movements in common of the so-called French Suites in C Minor and in G Major (BWV 813, 816) only begs the question 'Why ?'. pic.twitter.com/xzBpitX1hb— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2017
Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze may be an extreme juxtaposition (or the masks of tragedy and comedy), but do we need Eusebius plus Florestan ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2017
Not just didactically - and with exactitude not simply of notes, but also of expressiveness and nuance - PLA's playing asks how music works.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2017
His phenomenal concentration, vision, interpretative and technical power, and a sense of humanity and connectedness to the music and to us ! https://t.co/4jjpT0cd92
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2017
Lest we need repeat other comments about PLA's programming and playing, here is the #UCFF review from Aldeburgh Festival in 2014
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