Weil das im Tagebuch wohl rasch untergeht, hole ich mal die zwei schönen Auszüge aus Leon Fleishers Kommentaren zu Artur Schnabel hierher:
Leon Fleisher, der zehn Jahre mit Schnabel gelernt hat, hat sich für das CD-Booklet zu einem Interview bereit erklärt, aus dem ein Fliesstext wurde. Die schönste, Schnabel zu verdankende Erkenntnis, die er uns darin mitteilt finde ich folgende:
Leon FleisherRhythm was something that came out as a result of his playing, of his demonstrating. There would be this schwung, an irresistible swing to what he did, as though he were twirling you around in a dance. It was so extraordinary to learn that in the same tempo one could play slow or fast: in a sense, the rhythm depended on whether you played with a close-up lens, emphasizing the rhythmic subtext, teh underlying pulsation, or whether you used a telephoto lens and just looked at half-bar points and dealt differently with what lay between.
Und etwas später im Text:
Leon FleisherIn his way of dealing with time, since time is such a unique dimension, he would in effect distort time to further characterize or underline the character that he was trying to bring out. And to do it in a way in which, when it was perceptible, it became kindd of irresistible in the swing that carried it. His dealing with beats: Beats are the subdivision of time. The emphasis was that beats were never downward events, they were not like fence posts or the hammering of coffin nails — beats were upward springs that would spring you on to the next beat. I often use with my students the image of a ballet dancer who walks on the ball of the foot and springs on to the next. Therefore, his beat always had life to it and led on and on. If it was a vertical experience it was always upward.
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Und weil ich gerade bei Claudio Arrau bin (Schumann, die Philips 10LP-Box) und ein paar interessante Gramophone-Artikel hervorgesucht habe, erlaube man mir, diese hier zu verlinken.
John Allen (Juli 1939, S. 9-10) über die frühen Aufnahmen:
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201939/9/836777/
Arrau im Interview mit Alan Blyth (Februar 1972, S. 39):
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201972/39/758684/
Richard Osborne schreibt zum 80. Geburtstag (Februar 1983, S. 25-26):
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201983/25/814583/
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