Vicky Chow performs Michael Gordon's SONATRA at Roulette, Brooklyn (2016)
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Roulette
October 27, 2016
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Fantastic - what a beautiful composition/performance ...so (spiritually) refreshing ....thank you
The thing about Michael Gordon is that I listen to his music once and I'm like, "what the hell is this!?" And then a few days later I find myself looking up his work on RUclips and listening to it again and again and again.
It's all fun and games until the keyboard catches fire from all that glissando
Vicky, you have to be the most persevering person on the planet. And your stamina! I am impressed!
This is crazy! An astonishing performance!
I really love this piece. It's uncompromising for sure (especially the first 9 minutes or so) but after listening a few times I started to appreciate the shifts in the patterns/harmonies which are all built up on minor/major 3rds (and then later glissandi, of course). There's quite a groovy "riff" where two hands play descending thirds together.
The piece is phenomenally difficult for the fingers to remember (even WITH the score as a guide) added to which there is no let up at all. An astonishing achievement by Vicky Chow to play this.
Superhuman pianism.
Maravilloso, extraordinario!!!
Thanks for this oustanding performance
Great!
nice
First and most of all what a great performance from a gifted pianist.
As a composition I found the first 9 mins to be more like a repetitively annoying etude but then it picked up and we were taken on this endless journey, like someone who has been pacing the floor but has now lost their grip on sanity and is slowly descending into madness. You can almost hear the laughter as they resign themselves to their hopeless state until they just finally pass out from exhaustion.
At one point where she was playing at the highest and lowest registers of the piano, my arms physically ached with her.
I cannot stress enough how much I did not like the first 9 mins but LOVED the last 6, it just sounded like the piece was in a holding pattern but then took off and maybe that was the intent of the composer but I personally found it bordering on monotony.
Stephen Hawking loved this composer & Vicky Chow absolutely winning it like the best big wave surfers ride Mavericks - resistance reminds me of backlash against Stravinsky or “Broadway Boogie-Woogie,” DeStijl & Cecil Taylor as only Fred Moten can historicise -In The Break-. The playful slides near the end offer a wonderful sense of self-awareness & a bit of humor to it like Duchamp’s “Muse Denuded by Her Suitors, Even” - as the piece & performance play on the piano’s inheritance from pope-organ as early human-machine interface, nicely accentuated by the iPad as score.
wow! very impressive. Not sure the piece is something I'd want to hear more than once, but it works on its own terms I think.
Very interesting
nice use of space
seeing the likes, i'm sure computers will dominate manhood in the future
Ca ressemble plus à des exercices qu'à une sonate...nul !
Bad music -- one might argue the composer is a sadist and the performer is a masochist. Pitiful. But then again, it's all a matter of taste, so I respect but disagree with favorable opinions. It's a good vehicle, I suppose, for a performer to show off technical prowess, but not a means to demonstrate artful performance capability.
guess you must be stuck on the past. learn to move on.
There's no bad music, only bad listeners.
It's an amazing accomplishment! Vicky, you do a stellar job. But the composition itself is not good music -- it's a parlor trick that can be played with perseverance and speed, but not meaning or passion.
sez you. what's "passion?" what's "meaning?" learn to listen.
www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-physically-punishing-solo-piano-masterpiece