http://www.bloggernews.net/19487 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/19487#comment-1745077 angelo3rd Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:49:55 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19487#comment-1745077 "If you are dipping a toe into classical music, this would be an odd introductory choice" according to cehwiedel. On the contrary, this would be a wonderful introductory choice---and equally wonderful for someone who already owns half a dozen other performances of the Bach Partita. Mr Fray displays enormous sympathy for Bach's music. If you follow cehwiedel's advice and compare the gigue as Mr Fray plays it to the same movement as Mr Pinnock plays it, what becomes evident is not the gulf separating Mr Fray from Bach---there is no gulf---but only the reality that Mr Fray and Mr Pinnock are different artists with different approaches to this composer. And it's rarely a good idea to form an opinion of a performer by how he or she plays one short segment of a long work. All in all: Mr Fray is a pianist of extraordinary sensitivity and great feeling. You will not be disappointed by this CD. “If you are dipping a toe into classical music, this would be an odd introductory choice” according to cehwiedel.
On the contrary, this would be a wonderful introductory choice—and equally wonderful for someone who already owns half a dozen other performances of the Bach Partita. Mr Fray displays enormous sympathy for Bach’s music. If you follow cehwiedel’s advice and compare the gigue as Mr Fray plays it to the same movement as Mr Pinnock plays it, what becomes evident is not the gulf separating Mr Fray from Bach—there is no gulf—but only the reality that Mr Fray and Mr Pinnock are different artists with different approaches to this composer. And it’s rarely a good idea to form an opinion of a performer by how he or she plays one short segment of a long work.
All in all: Mr Fray is a pianist of extraordinary sensitivity and great feeling. You will not be disappointed by this CD.

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