Weekend Concert 16: The Delicate Man Prostrate at a Powerful Woman's Feet!
2006/11/11 11:11:11
When
A Man's Delicacy
Meets
A Woman's Ferocity
The relationship between women and men is always a relationship of being related -- even in art, such relationships remain relationships. When a man's delicacy meets a woman's ferocity, what kind of art erupts? In this Polish man, we find the finest embodiment.
Some say his heart was Polish, that the famous French woman had negligible influence on him. Those who say such things understand neither men nor women. Without France, without the French woman, without that French woman's ferocity, how could this delicate Polish man have erupted? How could his poetic spirit have erupted like bodily fluids?
Music doesn't necessarily require eruptions like bodily fluids -- take that blind German old man, for instance. But Romantic music absolutely needs fluids, absolutely needs eruption. When a delicate man prostrates himself at a ferocious woman's feet, eruption erupts because of eruption. Over a hundred years later, in the deepest parts of this delicate man's works, one can still clearly hear the scar of passion branded by the French woman during his most feverish ardor -- as deep and as moving as those branded by that most famous Chinese woman upon her most favored eunuch.
This Polish man's fans are no fewer than the Russian comrade's -- so I'll leave it at that. No need to introduce the works -- anyone who studies piano, listens to piano, plays piano, or has been played by piano is surely already familiar.
Please turn off all other background music
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Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/11/11 11:16:33
Also, the last selections are the Rubinstein versions.
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/11/11 11:15:55
Sorry, I have a major social engagement in a bit and must go. The music hasn't been fully uploaded yet -- the Piano Concertos and others aren't up. I'll add them when I get back tonight. Listen to these for now.