David Dubal is the most inspiring and insightful lens into the world of piano I've ever encountered. Generations of pianists out of NYC from all the piano studios who came through his classes or played for him have come under his spell. His were the one class I'd never miss. And his books are even better.
I've listened to these reminiscences of Mr. Dubal three or four times at intervals of a few months and I enjoy them every time. He's a wonderful storyteller. I wish all of his books were available on Kindle. I just bought The Essential Canon of Classical Music , but there are others I would love to read. Because of space considerations I rarely buy real books anymore. I hope Mr. Dubal's publishers will put all his books on Kindle.
Mr Dubal is rather like the great artists/pianists he admires from the golden years. Namely a cultured, perceptive individual, a humanitarian, and finally an admirer style, good taste and impeccable manners. I'm sure he would be a hugely interesting dinner guest.
I love David's interviews and anecdotes..he has been the proverbial fly on the wall for many many great artists..in terms of being in the know and closeness to the artists...oddly enough his voice is similar to Abrams Chassim, and I actually got the two confused a few times while listening to their perspective radio interviews.
Dubal's honesty is a rare thing.Rubinstein is beloved but i havent heard other professionals say his last recs were tame. but it makes sense to sell recs you cant be too subjective or personal.This is why live concerts with andrewski or fazil say are so remarkable.
The story about Gould's last days shows the regard Glenn had for David to leave his last hand written interview to him. David knew the best pianists of our time and they appreciated his understanding of their gifts.
The Greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( THE TITAN OF THE PIANO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev( The most Powerful Ever!) Maurizio Pollini (. The Genius no 2) Alexei Lubimov ( The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!) Solomon Cutner ( The perfect structure of music) Proffesor Malinin Said that Mozart playing is The most difficult!. The Best greatest Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu (. The others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( The others The Good=Vladimir Horowitz Radu Lupu Murray Perahia Vladimir Ashkenazy Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Grigory Sokolov). Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg ( The others The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Mikhail Pletnev Gina Bachauer) Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( The others The Good=Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Natalia Trull).
I wish Gould had answered all of Dubal's questions. Dubal seems to deprecate Gould's personality, but one can't help feeling that a dialog with Gould would have been one of Dubal's most stimulating, intriguing and treasured encounters. Gould seems to have found it more congenial to engage with himself in conversation, from what I understand. Imagine that.
is the fact i have spent more than 20 years on about ten Chopin etudes (truly the most imaginative well crafted music i know)and would not dare sit down and play them for strangers and sometimes i forget a figuration but the czerny from childhood is aclear in my head as ever.
Glenn Gould's last interview, left as a hand-written letter, was given to David Dubal. David has interviewed some of the most important pianists of the last century. Thanks to archivist Bob Tonnuci listeners can now hear David's WNCN-FM interviews at: youtube / noochinator
as a black person i am sorry that there are not more well known african roots pianist but i guess this is a cultural thing.You play what you are exposed to . Luckily we have fabulously gifted jazz pianists and there is always Andre Watts- though i wonder if he is a wizard like Jorge Bolet ,Cherkassky,or Fazil Say?
@@snapshotsfoundation the piece that is being played at 30:45 is not from one of the pieces in that album, isn't it from schumann's Carnaval? can't find it myself.
As regards Arrau's suggestion that all pianist's actually were nervous when playing in public, I can believe with ease that Josef Hofmann definitely must have been the exception. "God's Fiddler" - Jascha Heifetz - instructed his students thus "Do not be afraid of scales; make the scales afraid OF YOU!" - yes indeed, as he certainly had done himself with most perfect aplomb. As for Hofmann on the Grand Piano-forte . . . he terrorized the poor scales into submission! . : .
Horowitz is quoted as saying "I'd refuse a million dollars if I was offered to play Rhapsody in Blue, 'cause I can't play that", a reference which is vetted by the fact that, indeed, Mr. Horowitz was never able to play it, for his approach was always too straight-laced. "
I think Dubal walks a slippery slope for a second when he says that a "canon" is defined by art critics. Totally side stepping the fact that the Canon is determined by RECEPTION. Composers need to make music people like. Period. Music that uplifts challenges inspires purifies so to speak it is an endeavor filled with unlimited challenges. But the academicians are not alone responsible for thrusting pieces into a Canon. The audiences and people will always decide. They can fool themselves for a little bit but people inherently know good art when they see hear taste touch smell it. In the absence of good art... it isn't the academicians job to concoct a Canon or some lineage relevance backward looking to how we got here. In the absence of good art. We just need patience.
Dubal is wonderfully down to earth here.Cant most of us play czerny and others etudes we had as children.I have no great talent but i can sit down and play 2 or 3 pages many many simple notes of super fast czerny etudes i learned when i was ten.This happened recently .Its such poor unimaginative writing i never play it but in front of a piano one day in front of some others i sat down and rememberd all the notes and left hand chords .I did not feel i had done anything worthwhile.More infuriating
Silly comment-irritating and pretentiously fey as Dubal can be-this is a interview of HIM-so he will naturally talk about himself... And we are lucky to have his experiences with these pianists who are now gone-a nice testament to have.
Mr. Dubal may talk controversive, but not offensive. He might be 'american', but as honest, as his own ego is capable of. By the way, could someone tell me, what is the title of the initial piece?
I am confused about what he says about the Gould interview because there is a point in it where Dubal actually asks him a question in reponse to one of Gould's answers - this is at odds with what he talks about here.
David prepared his questions after speaking with Glen by phone. These questions were mailed for Glen to respond to. After Gould's death a paper of answers was discovered in his apartment which is published in David's book.
SnapshotsFoundation Yes but in the book there is a point where David actually responds to one of Gould's questions and then Gould in turn answers David's point. This is at odds with the idea of finding the answers post-mortem.
who cares? This is precious storytelling by Mr. Dubal and he is highly knowledgeable (and funny too). Its not about details and logic ,we have enough of that already. Try to enjoy ,thats my advise.
Jeff, Apparently VH was a well-known sight in the sailors' bars in Kiev, flouncing around in bright red lipstick and a showy dress. If one didn't know that there was (officially) absolutely no homosexuality in the Soviet Union one might think...
This all goes to show that celebrated ("great") musicians are not necessarily (not even usually) great people. By all means applaud their performances but for heaven's sake don't make heroes or heroines out of them. Dubal says "they were cultured" - but probably not more than the average. Anybody wealthy can fill his flat with exotic sculptures; that means absolutley nothing. To make a great thing about reading Goethe or Proust proves bugger all. Rubinstein's personal life was shabby, however much *he* may have been ecstatic about it. Gould was a clever, but a truly rubbishing human person - cold, calculating, manipulative, and self-centered. Horowitz was a marvellous pianist, but if his left hand had been crippled in childhood (God forbit), he would have been no more that just one more of the people going down the the Kiev docks in rouge and a frock, looking for sailors
Mr. Dubal you talk too much. The way you talk carries overtones of "let's figure out who Glenn Gould really is ..." hence disrespectful consequences. You can never discover Glenn Gould. Let him be whatever way he is (was) for the sake of music.
Kia Hadipour He took on the job of finding other levels to these great complex personalities, and since he does so with such deep understanding, respect, and humor, he helps them to live in our imaginations in a way they never would otherwise.
mister Dubal is a gigantic narciss.When you read "Evenings with Horowitz", you feel it in every phrase.Great book to read, but its about "ME ....and horowitz ", not "HOROWITZ that I had the chance to meet"
His book, Art of Piano, opened the world of Piano to me. He’s a true educator
David Dubal is the most inspiring and insightful lens into the world of piano I've ever encountered. Generations of pianists out of NYC from all the piano studios who came through his classes or played for him have come under his spell. His were the one class I'd never miss. And his books are even better.
I've listened to these reminiscences of Mr. Dubal three or four times at intervals of a few months and I enjoy them every time. He's a wonderful storyteller. I wish all of his books were available on Kindle. I just bought The Essential Canon of Classical Music , but there are others I would love to read. Because of space considerations I rarely buy real books anymore. I hope Mr. Dubal's publishers will put all his books on Kindle.
Mr Dubal is rather like the great artists/pianists he admires from the golden years. Namely a cultured, perceptive individual, a humanitarian, and finally an admirer style, good taste and impeccable manners. I'm sure he would be a hugely interesting dinner guest.
I love David's interviews and anecdotes..he has been the proverbial fly on the wall for many many great artists..in terms of being in the know and closeness to the artists...oddly enough his voice is similar to Abrams Chassim, and I actually got the two confused a few times while listening to their perspective radio interviews.
Dubal's honesty is a rare thing.Rubinstein is beloved but i havent heard other professionals say his last recs were tame. but it makes sense to sell recs you cant be too subjective or personal.This is why live concerts with andrewski or fazil say are so remarkable.
Excellent interview. I love David Dubal.
The story about Gould's last days shows the regard Glenn had for David to leave his last hand written interview to him. David knew the best pianists of our time and they appreciated his understanding of their gifts.
Dubal Gives amazing insight into the inner worlds of Gould, Arrau, Horowitz, and others - Great History of Piano Playing
The Greatest pianists of All Time Are really Artur Rubinstein ( The God) Grigory Sokolov ( THE TITAN OF THE PIANO THE GIANT OF THE PIANO) Emil Gilels ( The King) Wilhelm Kempff ( The most beautiful piano sound Ever) Sviatoslav Richter Mikhail Pletnev( The most Powerful Ever!) Maurizio Pollini (. The Genius no 2) Alexei Lubimov ( The Genius no 1 Mozart piano concerto no 27!) Solomon Cutner ( The perfect structure of music) Proffesor Malinin Said that Mozart playing is The most difficult!. The Best greatest Mozart piano concertos players Are really=Mozart 17 Dezo Ranki Mozart 18 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 19 Radu Lupu Mozart 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Mozart 21 Radu Lupu (. The others The Good=Artur Rubinstein Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Vladimir Ashkenazy Stanislav Bunin) Mozart 22 Laura Mikkola Natalia Trull Jörg Demus Robert Casadesus Mozart 23 Solomon Cutner ( The others The Good=Vladimir Horowitz Radu Lupu Murray Perahia Vladimir Ashkenazy Wilhelm Kempff Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Grigory Sokolov). Mozart 24 Grigory Sokolov Maria Grinberg ( The others The Good=Wilhelm Kempff Mikhail Pletnev Gina Bachauer) Mozart 25 Murray Perahia Mozart 27 Alexei Lubimov ( The others The Good=Emil Gilels Vladimir Ashkenazy Murray Perahia Stanislav Bunin Natalia Trull).
@@RaineriHakkarainenif Sokolov read this I think he would be sick in his mouth
Wonderful interview. Mr . Dubai is very charismatic. Thank you
30:42 C'est une très grande leçon en effet. Simple, mais si profond commentaire d'Horowitz que Dubal nous restitue. Merci beaucoup!
A dedicated teacher- thank you
Can anyone tell me what piano piece is playing in the background while the question is thrown up on the screen at 29:20 ???
Thank you for posting this
I wish Gould had answered all of Dubal's questions. Dubal seems to deprecate Gould's personality, but one can't help feeling that a dialog with Gould would have been one of Dubal's most stimulating, intriguing and treasured encounters.
Gould seems to have found it more congenial to engage with himself in conversation, from what I understand. Imagine that.
31 questions for Glenn Gould, no more, no fewer. One for each Goldberg Variation and the Aria.
is the fact i have spent more than 20 years on about ten Chopin etudes (truly the most imaginative well crafted music i know)and would not dare sit down and play them for strangers and sometimes i forget a figuration but the czerny from childhood is aclear in my head as ever.
What a Masterclass!
A natural raconteur!
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Insightful and Powerful!
Thank you for posting.
what is the music in between?!
Glenn Gould's last interview, left as a hand-written letter, was given to David Dubal. David has interviewed some of the most important pianists of the last century. Thanks to archivist Bob Tonnuci listeners can now hear David's WNCN-FM interviews at: youtube / noochinator
Anyone knows the piece played at 32:58???
There's something I don't understand: is he talking about himself or about Gould? Who's the great pianist, Gould or him?
What is the music playing in Horowitz segment?
26:28
29:21
30:38
31:42
as a black person i am sorry that there are not more well known african roots pianist but i guess this is a cultural thing.You play what you are exposed to . Luckily we have fabulously gifted jazz pianists and there is always Andre Watts- though i wonder if he is a wizard like Jorge Bolet ,Cherkassky,or Fazil Say?
Oh is a beutiful music¡¡¡
What is the music between segments?
From David Dubal's album David Dubal & Stanley Waldoff, Pianists - Music Of The Romanic Pianist/Composer
@@snapshotsfoundation the piece that is being played at 30:45 is not from one of the pieces in that album, isn't it from schumann's Carnaval? can't find it myself.
@@DTSimon Will go back into the archives and see if we can find it.
@@snapshotsfoundation have you found it yet?
As regards Arrau's suggestion that all pianist's actually were nervous when playing in public, I can believe with ease that Josef Hofmann definitely must have been the exception. "God's Fiddler" - Jascha Heifetz - instructed his students thus "Do not be afraid of scales; make the scales afraid OF YOU!" - yes indeed, as he certainly had done himself with most perfect aplomb. As for Hofmann on the Grand Piano-forte . . . he terrorized the poor scales into submission!
. : .
Horowitz is quoted as saying "I'd refuse a million dollars if I was offered to play Rhapsody in Blue, 'cause I can't play that", a reference which is vetted by the fact that, indeed, Mr. Horowitz was never able to play it, for his approach was always too straight-laced.
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I think Dubal walks a slippery slope for a second when he says that a "canon" is defined by art critics. Totally side stepping the fact that the Canon is determined by RECEPTION. Composers need to make music people like. Period. Music that uplifts challenges inspires purifies so to speak it is an endeavor filled with unlimited challenges. But the academicians are not alone responsible for thrusting pieces into a Canon. The audiences and people will always decide. They can fool themselves for a little bit but people inherently know good art when they see hear taste touch smell it. In the absence of good art... it isn't the academicians job to concoct a Canon or some lineage relevance backward looking to how we got here. In the absence of good art. We just need patience.
Dubal is wonderfully down to earth here.Cant most of us play czerny and others etudes we had as children.I have no great talent but i can sit down and play 2 or 3 pages many many simple notes of super fast czerny etudes i learned when i was ten.This happened recently .Its such poor unimaginative writing i never play it but in front of a piano one day in front of some others i sat down and rememberd all the notes and left hand chords .I did not feel i had done anything worthwhile.More infuriating
Silly comment-irritating and pretentiously fey as Dubal can be-this is a interview of HIM-so he will naturally talk about himself...
And we are lucky to have his experiences with these pianists who are now gone-a nice testament to have.
odd the way he's partly folded back the cuffs of his jacket - never seen anyone do that before
Peter Wyngarde did this commonly on "Department S" and "Jason King" series in the 70's. i guess its a statement to his sexual orientation
His whole dress-up is just...kinda weird. Out of style mobster.
Mr. Dubal may talk controversive, but not offensive. He might be 'american', but as honest, as his own ego is capable of. By the way, could someone tell me, what is the title of the initial piece?
Mr Dubal is the Somerset Maugham of music criticism.
Hmm, nicely put! Likely-so!
. : .
I am confused about what he says about the Gould interview because there is a point in it where Dubal actually asks him a question in reponse to one of Gould's answers - this is at odds with what he talks about here.
David prepared his questions after speaking with Glen by phone. These questions were mailed for Glen to respond to. After Gould's death a paper of answers was discovered in his apartment which is published in David's book.
SnapshotsFoundation Yes but in the book there is a point where David actually responds to one of Gould's questions and then Gould in turn answers David's point. This is at odds with the idea of finding the answers post-mortem.
who cares? This is precious storytelling by Mr. Dubal and he is highly knowledgeable (and funny too). Its not about details and logic ,we have enough of that already. Try to enjoy ,thats my advise.
this was 2 years ago, I have mellowed a lot thanks mainly to advice like yours, thanks
wow what a quick response:-)!!
and very glad you think like that now
kind regards, Peter
Can anyone tell me please, what is the composition between the interview parts. Thanks
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@@eeradinator 🙏 thanks
you know, you know you know you know.................annoying you know
Fascinating show! I was waiting for him to talk about the incident in which HOROWITZ was arrested in Central Park wearing only bra and panties.
Jeff, Apparently VH was a well-known sight in the sailors' bars in Kiev, flouncing around in bright red lipstick and a showy dress. If one didn't know that there was (officially) absolutely no homosexuality in the Soviet Union one might think...
@@stephenarnold6359 I can believe it. Byron Janis told some stories. He didn't want to be alone with him as a young man.
Juilliard professor David Dubal on the Grand Manner and Comparative listening. ruclips.net/video/KuiyV9WPcDc/видео.html
seems bizare that horowitz would say don't bring woman becasue they make children when he left for 13 years or so himself.
Listen to David Dubal on the Century of Social Change here ruclips.net/video/F7qv72QZruM/видео.html
***** It's a terrific book - I've taken it in many times.
This all goes to show that celebrated ("great") musicians are not necessarily (not even usually) great people. By all means applaud their performances but for heaven's sake don't make heroes or heroines out of them. Dubal says "they were cultured" - but probably not more than the average. Anybody wealthy can fill his flat with exotic sculptures; that means absolutley nothing. To make a great thing about reading Goethe or Proust proves bugger all. Rubinstein's personal life was shabby, however much *he* may have been ecstatic about it. Gould was a clever, but a truly rubbishing human person - cold, calculating, manipulative, and self-centered. Horowitz was a marvellous pianist, but if his left hand had been crippled in childhood (God forbit), he would have been no more that just one more of the people going down the the Kiev docks in rouge and a frock, looking for sailors
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Mr. Dubal you talk too much. The way you talk carries overtones of "let's figure out who Glenn Gould really is ..." hence disrespectful consequences. You can never discover Glenn Gould. Let him be whatever way he is (was) for the sake of music.
Kia Hadipour He took on the job of finding other levels to these great complex personalities, and since he does so with such deep understanding, respect, and humor, he helps them to live in our imaginations in a way they never would otherwise.
mister Dubal is a gigantic narciss.When you read "Evenings with Horowitz", you feel it in every phrase.Great book to read, but its about "ME ....and horowitz ", not "HOROWITZ that I had the chance to meet"
you know you know you know you know.......pfff."Horowitz lied about everything like all russians do".... i cant stand that guy anymore