Mozart sonata k 283

Sorry, but did you really get offended over Pinnok or Ghilbert?

I'll back down... if I offended you, I apologize immediately and it was not my intention.

Sometimes asserting one's own ideas with passion means how much you have sweated over them and how much you care about them...

But seriously... for me, everything is like at the beginning.

Even the fact that you took offense certainly made me realize that you do things with passion.

Yes, this time maybe I messed up.

No no, I wasn't offended at all... Imagine, haha, I'm used to much worse... More than anything, the comparison with Landowska left me perplexed... Whose instrument is, to say the least, obsolete and ahistorical

Anyway, I'll briefly explain to you also why I don't like Kempff's recording (whom I appreciate very much on Schumann along with Demus): first, too much pedal, definitely too much; I can tolerate a bit of half-pedaling, but not like this! Second, Czerny and then Mozart was someone who didn't use the pedal, and even someone like Hummel used it little... Second, the first movement is an allegro and Kempff, who usually keeps moderate tempos, runs like a madman for my taste, it's almost a presto; then if you want I can listen to Kempff better and surely I'll find something high that doesn't please me ahahah

nancy wrote:

are Casella's revisions prior to these analyses?

Casella's revisions are fine to use as shims if chairs, tables, or furniture wobble ahahahahah

Anyway, a little humility never hurts, remember that.

Casella is not just some random hack found on the street.

A times, I say frankly, I find it offensive how lightly you judge some of the great masters of history. Perhaps it's age... I don't know how old you are..

Come on, you can't joke about everything.

Those regarding Kempff, for example, are at least valid observations, and on these, two people can argue, but yours sometimes seems like the attitude of a wounded animal, as if someone were joking or looking askance at the fact that you prefer or play an antique instrument.

On my part, you have my full respect, so I don't understand the attitude.

Playing the clavichord today means working twice as hard as a pianist..

I wouldn't go on the attack about everything, though.

Ha..yes, age says 86.

Lucky you... hi hi

But on Casella it was a joke... I even have almost all of his editions

Dammit.... I believed it after all...

I will try to post a little project of a plug or something similar..

Let me know if it is possible.

Ok post it and let's see what comes out.

When I was looking for work after losing it, I sent many emails to harpsichord makers all over Italy.

Augusto Bonza replied to me and, if I'm not mistaken, it was he who told me that he didn't have a need at the moment but would gladly let me take a tour of a collection of historical harpsichords... then we didn't hear from each other anymore... I made a mistake not taking the opportunity.

I will post as soon as I can.

Maybe we could also talk about it in the chat. I tried, but I found it empty... meaning no one answered me..

We'll catch up later.

I don't usually use the chat, but give me a whistle anyway; however, harpsichord makers, apart from those who have a small company like Bizzi, tend to work alone. There is income, but not a huge amount, supplemented by things like regulating and tuning, etc. And then it's not like there is an excessive demand for new harpsichords ahahah, unless they are commissioned from abroad.

Indeed... he was pointing that out to me too. No, I was mentioning the chat because at least live on certain technical topics it is much faster. The problem for me now is also finding a drawing of some virginal or clavichord. I know they sell drawings but.... I remember interesting prices...

After all, one certainly cannot just invent an instrument out of thin air..

No, certainly not; most museums usually have at least some drawings of their own instruments available, see the Russell Collection in Edinburgh or the Nuremberg National Museum as two examples; I don't actually know the prices... When I need a project (so far I have only copied that clavichord drawing that is in Nuremberg, but if I'm not mistaken he also has two identical copies of a project for a late 1700s Silberman clavichord), I just have them photocopied directly from theirs, except for those that are truly old and can no longer be read... Not to mention that theirs also already contain various annotations... Aside from the two clavichords because he never made any ahahahHah

I had found them for sale on the internet. Because I had gotten in touch with a Frenchman who worked with snake wood, which he used to make details for violinists... and he had pointed me toward some sites.

If I find something again, I will post it here.