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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Contemporary player plays old style on old piano - Levin plays Mozart]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps I was misleading - my point was that Levin in this video plays NOT like a contemporary pianist (at least, not contemporary to our age).</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[dklein]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Contemporary player plays old style on old piano - Levin plays Mozart]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Bob&#039;s terrific and an amazing improviser in the mozartian fashion but, while he certainly does do considerable work with modern pianos, he&#039;s not really what i&#039;d think of as a traditional &quot;contemporary&quot; player...<br />now Schiff on the other hand... [!] <i class="far fa-smile-wink smiley"></i><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/05/12/405206186/andr-s-schiffs-confessional-schubert">http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptiveca...l-schubert</a></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2017-02-17T14:27:40Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Contemporary player plays old style on old piano - Levin plays Mozart]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>In Sarasota we have a part-time resident, Robert Levin, who is a world expert on Mozart manuscripts.&nbsp; When he&#039;s not in Sarasota, he&#039;s a professor of music at Harvard, from where he also does some lectures at Cambridge.&nbsp; Here he is playing Mozart on Mozart&#039;s own Walter piano:</p><p><a href="http://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/mozart-piano/">http://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/mozart-piano/</a></p><p>Much of his talk following the performance is how composers wrote specifically for their instruments, such as Mozart for his light-action, leather-covered hammer Walter piano; or Bach composing for certain organs for which he had access.&nbsp; Levin&#039;s point being that certain music just sounds better on the instruments for which it has been written, played in the style that the composer intended.&nbsp; My friend who forwarded the clip to me remarked on Levin&#039;s style of play, which is much lighter, quicker, and wrist-and-hand-driven, as compared to that of many contemporary pianists, who drive pianos from the shoulders on down.</p><p>As Pianoteq represents both the contemporary and the old, it&#039;s an interesting explanation on why a stiff upright just doesn&#039;t play like a 1700s pianoforte - kind of like driving a truck through an autocross gymkhana course, just because it too has a throttle and steering wheel.&nbsp; :-D</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2017-02-17T09:23:07Z</updated>
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