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Mozart and the Pianist: A Guide for Performers and Teachers to Mozart's Major Works for Solo Piano. (Books).(Brief Article)
Mozart and the Pianist: A Guide for Performers and Teachers to Mozart's Major Works for Solo Piano, by Michael Davidson. Kahn & Averill (IPG, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago IL 60610), 2001. 363 pp., $32.
Unlike the Badura-Skodas' Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard, organized by interpretive issues, the present volume considers each of Mozart's major keyboard solo works separately. Hence, the two volumes complement each other nicely. Michael Davidson offers ample commentary on matters of form, expression, articulation, dynamics and tempo in all the sonatas, rondos, several variation sets and assorted individual pieces--sometimes, alas, to the extent that creativity, exploration and discussion may be squelched.
No one doubts the value of precise interpretive suggestions ("no pedal here," "more ornamentation is hardly needed" and the like). But too many times the author uses phrases like "more correct" (as if matters of ornamentation were not endlessly debatable) and tends to impart too much significance to the musical text (in the spirit of our age, which tends to overemphasize the role of the Urtext), interpreting every nonexistence of a slur as prima facie evidence that the passage in question could not possibly be played ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Mozart and the Pianist: A Guide for Performers and Teachers to...