Can this be explained to a non-musician?

Doesn't everybody use fingers and play chords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Tureck

"My technique was grounded, from my earliest years of study, in the
school of Mendelssohn as passed on by Anton Rubinstein and many of his
pupils, one of whom, Sophia Brilliant-Liven, was my teacher. It's
essentially a finger technique, not a chordal one."


(Rare films of both Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach are featured on classicartsshowcase.org this week. It repeats every 15 hours
so they will be on again at 12:45 am and 3:45 pm New York time Monday.)

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On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:27:59 AM UTC-5, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Can this be explained to a non-musician?

Doesn't everybody use fingers and play chords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Tureck

"My technique was grounded, from my earliest years of study, in the
school of Mendelssohn as passed on by Anton Rubinstein and many of his pupils, one of whom, Sophia Brilliant-Liven, was my teacher. It's
essentially a finger technique, not a chordal one."

It sounds like buzzwords her teacher used to express the ineffable.
As my two voice teachers put it many years ago, whatever works
for any individual.

As I think I heard from John Rubinstein in one of his documentaries,
Arthur Rubinstein said that "of course" he knew exactly what he did
in order to get his own individual sound from the piano. However, he
could not explain it to anyone else.

(Rare films of both Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach are featured on classicartsshowcase.org this week. It repeats every 15 hours
so they will be on again at 12:45 am and 3:45 pm New York time Monday.)

Tureck films shouldn't be rare -- she lived until 2003!

Also she was a favorite of Wm. F. Buckley; he probably put her on TV
pretty often.

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Peter T. Daniels wrote:

On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:27:59 AM UTC-5, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Can this be explained to a non-musician?

Doesn't everybody use fingers and play chords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Tureck

"My technique was grounded, from my earliest years of study, in the
school of Mendelssohn as passed on by Anton Rubinstein and many of
his pupils, one of whom, Sophia Brilliant-Liven, was my teacher. It's
essentially a finger technique, not a chordal one."

It sounds like buzzwords her teacher used to express the ineffable.
As my two voice teachers put it many years ago, whatever works
for any individual.

As I think I heard from John Rubinstein in one of his documentaries,
Arthur Rubinstein said that "of course" he knew exactly what he did
in order to get his own individual sound from the piano. However, he
could not explain it to anyone else.

(Rare films of both Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach
are featured on classicartsshowcase.org this week. It repeats every
15 hours so they will be on again at 12:45 am and 3:45 pm New York
time Monday.)

Tureck films shouldn't be rare -- she lived until 2003!

Also she was a favorite of Wm. F. Buckley; he probably put her on TV
pretty often.

These were old films that looked pretty rare. I didn't search youtube
for it yet. Sometimes the clips on classicartsshowcase are on youtube
(but I usually didn't discover them until I saw them on CAS) but usually
they can't be found.

Fortunately these are among the former

Jessye Norman, Dove Sono
Kiri Te Kanawa, Bailero

But unfortunately these are among the latter

Jennie Tourel, Plaisir d'Amour
Desirée Rancatore, Martern aller Arten (at Hangar 7)

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Tom Del Rosso wrote:

But unfortunately these are [not on youtube]

Jennie Tourel, Plaisir d'Amour
Desirée Rancatore, Martern aller Arten (at Hangar 7)

Correction, the Desirée Rancatore segment is there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbKjIDiRFTU


But here's another one that is really unusual.

Purcell, Sound the Trumpet, Philippe Jaroussky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxTkTw4cCY

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