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In Reply to: I disagree John I prefer the viennese action fortepioano to either of the other two types of fortepiano posted by Timbo in Oz on November 5, 2006 at 20:12:32:
I tend to prefer hearing works on original instruments, or at least reasonable facsimiles. I find that the tonal character and sonority of the instrument for which a piece was written often helps to clarify the music for me. Having played classical guitar many years ago in my misspent youth and dabbled with guitar transcriptions of lute works, something akin in many ways to playing harpsichord or fortepiano works on a modern pianoforte, I've tended to move away from modern instruments to original instruments for renaissance, baroque, and classical works. It's harder to find period instrument performances for the romantic period, especially the later part of the nineteenth century, but I suspect that music of that period would also benefit from performance on older, or older style, instruments.Interestingly, my one exception to preferring the sound of the fortepiano to the sound of the modern piano in Beethoven has been the Stuart piano. The recordings I've heard of it, on the radio only since I tend not to buy much classical music these days, have always struck me as having some of the crispness and lighter sonority of the fortepiano.
David Aiken
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Follow Ups
- Ditto… - David Aiken 22:37:07 11/05/06 (1)
- the Stuart IS exceptional - Timbo in Oz 02:05:14 11/06/06 (0)
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