You can only get this ideal balance between the two instruments in the recording studio. In every live performance of this piece, no matter how musically and sensitively the piano is played, the sheer volume of sound from the richly-scored piano accompaniment played on a 9-foot concert grand (even with the lid closed) has always tended to overshadow the cello part
This might just be one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
God's grace is all over this
Amen! Gods genocidal grace is truly present
You can only get this ideal balance between the two instruments in the recording studio. In every live performance of this piece, no matter how musically and sensitively the piano is played, the sheer volume of sound from the richly-scored piano accompaniment played on a 9-foot concert grand (even with the lid closed) has always tended to overshadow the cello part
This is why I love when this piece is played on a Bari Sax. Still has that living richness, but the power to compete with the piano.
What did you think of the Lugansky-Capuçon interpretation (on youtube)?