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Natan Brand

Piano master video discussion group 2 posts Started 18 Jan 2017

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There's some very interesting Schumann footage here: The "Chopin" from Carnaval is one of the finest performances I ever heard. By weird coincidence I just found some film of his playing for the first time in a Taubman documentary just a couple of days before the longer version of the Carnaval was posted online. He certainly individuates his fingers a lot more than the Taubman methodology teaches- even though you see how the freedom and excellent alignment of the arm may well owe something to their ways. I do find his tone a little punched in some of the louder playing, but his sound in softer passages is unsurpassed, for me.

A pianist

Natan was a truly great pianist whose life was tragically cut short... I have always admired him tremendously!

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