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Off the Record - Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (Hardcover, New)
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Off the Record - Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (Hardcover, New)
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Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing
practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard
player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of
early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that
capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far
back as the mid-nineteenth-century. Placing general practices of
late nineteenth-century piano performance alongside evidence of the
stylistic idiosyncrasies of legendary pianists such as Carl
Reinecke (1824-1910), Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), Camille
Saint-Saens (1838-1921) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), he
examines prevalent techniques of the time--dislocation, unnotated
arpeggiation, rhythmic alteration, tempo fluctuation--and unfolds
the background and lineage of significant performer/pedagogues.
Throughout, Peres Da Costa demonstrates that these early recordings
do not simply capture the idiosyncrasies of aging musicians as has
been commonly asserted, but in fact represent a range of
established expressive practices of a lost age.
An extensive collection of these fascinating and sometimes rare
professional recordings of the Romantic age masters are available
on a companion web site, and in addition, Peres Da Costa, himself a
renowned period keyboardist, illustrates points made throughout the
book with his own playing. Of essential value to student and
professional pianists, historical musicologists of 19th and early
20th century performance practice, and also to the general music
aficionado audience, Off the Record is an indispensable resource
for scholarly research, performance inspiration, and listening
enjoyment."
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