Composers

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There is No Middle of the Road in Art 5

19 May, 2011  in Composers / Concert Artists / Concerts  tagged artist / classical music / composers / great art / pianists by Matt (updated 4416 days ago)

Great works of art and great performances are never middle of the road. Some of my favorite performers, like Richter and Argerich, also elicit my most negative reactions. Rudolf Serkin’s concerts were incredible or disastrous, but rarely mediocre. Beethoven has a large collection of worthless compositions. So does Mozart. This is […]

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Getting to know Scarlatti 1

6 Oct, 2009  in Composers / Concert Artists / Music and Recordings by Matt (updated 4416 days ago)

I love Scarlatti. I think it was Horowitz who considered Domenico Scarlatti to be the “first Romantic”. I find it hard to disagree. Scarlatti’s own preface to his “Sonatas” gives us a peak into his own benevolent disposition: “…show yourself to be more human than critical, and then your pleasure […]

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Bach 4

12 Nov, 2008  in Composers / Concerts by Matt (updated 4416 days ago)

Bach is a very humbling experience for me. You can play Rachmaninoff and Chopin and everything else that impresses the hell out of people, but you come back to something like 2 part counterpoint and the ground falls out from under you. At least it does for me! But this […]

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