The other day, I shared a video of Yuja Wang on Facebook, adding a comment to the effect that we finally get here a pianist who is able to play the syncopated chords at the end of Strawinksy's Danse Russe in time:
A classical pianist who can play the second and fourth eighth in a two-quarter measure is rare and deserves full applause. After this somewhat sobering insight, it is so relieving to listen to some jazz master, where timing is just no issue but merely the bottom-most basis building on which music is made come to life:
Now, when will classical pianists understand that timing is not an oldfashioned convention but simply the very heart of music? And whoever thought that this timing thing was easy (no matter whether jazz or classical, no matter whether strict tempo or rubato) – well … start trying …
A classical pianist who can play the second and fourth eighth in a two-quarter measure is rare and deserves full applause. After this somewhat sobering insight, it is so relieving to listen to some jazz master, where timing is just no issue but merely the bottom-most basis building on which music is made come to life:
Now, when will classical pianists understand that timing is not an oldfashioned convention but simply the very heart of music? And whoever thought that this timing thing was easy (no matter whether jazz or classical, no matter whether strict tempo or rubato) – well … start trying …
