Ivan Moravec may well have the most beautiful tone of any living pianist. Not that he lacks technique: a wrong note is never heard in a Moravec performance. Nor does he lack temperament: Moravec can apparently play anything in the repertoire and play it as if he composed it, creating the piece rather than re-creating it. But it is his tone that truly distinguishes Moravec: superbly, supremely, sublimely beautiful, Moravec's tone is the musical equivalent of Cézanne's brush strokes. Every note is a luminous star glowing in ...
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Ivan Moravec may well have the most beautiful tone of any living pianist. Not that he lacks technique: a wrong note is never heard in a Moravec performance. Nor does he lack temperament: Moravec can apparently play anything in the repertoire and play it as if he composed it, creating the piece rather than re-creating it. But it is his tone that truly distinguishes Moravec: superbly, supremely, sublimely beautiful, Moravec's tone is the musical equivalent of Cézanne's brush strokes. Every note is a luminous star glowing in the firmament. It is his tone more than anything else that holds together this recital from the 2000 Prague Spring Festival. After all, how much does the piano music of Haydn, Janácek, Chopin, and Debussy have in common? But Moravec's tone unites them. His Haydn Sonata in D major has wit, but also beauty. His Chopin preludes have character, but also beauty. His reading of Debussy's Ondine has virtuosity, but also beauty. And his final two Chopin mazurkas have a darkly glowing Slavic...
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