This chapter contains lots of information about "French touch" and "Debussy sound". Making Debussy sound is based on French touch or carezzando finger touch. This unique French technique emphasized on "softness in strength and strength in softness" yielding wrist and flat finger.
This chapter gives me some good ideas about how to play Debussy or Ravel's composition. The color of tone of French composer is so unique and totally different from other composers. Like Mrs. Long's words, "it is unsurpassed in 'depth of inner feeling'"
I think Mrs. Long is lucky, in her long performance career(seventy years), she could received interpretative suggestions directly from composers like Debussy and Ravel. This is the treatment all the modern pianists desire but couldn't obtain.
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I only wish everybody felt that French music was "unsurpassed in depth of inner feeling." French music is often labeled as vague. But I think it really takes an intimate knowledge and appreciation to understand all it has to offer. It's like a fine wine that gets better with age.
ReplyDeleteI think it is impossible to define or measure "depth of inner feeling." "Feeling," in this context can refer to a vast range of emotions. It would be hard to argue with someone who thought Schoenberg's music has the most emotional depth, since it is all just a personal judgement.
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