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From: DeepBlue <dan.koren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: WAYLTL 2025!
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 08:15:18 +0000
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 8:12:21 +0000, DeepBlue wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2025 2:13:21 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 May 2025, DeepBlue wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2025 5:48:57 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On Sun, 25 May 2025, DeepBlue wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  On Sat, 24 May 2025 20:53:14 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   On Sat, 24 May 2025, DeepBlue wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   On Sat, 24 May 2025 0:18:46 +0000, Al Eisner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Magdalene Ho (of Malaysia)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Note however that she was born in the US,
>>>>>>>   is (at least half) Chinese, and studied
>>>>>>>   mainly in the UK with Patsy Fou. I guess
>>>>>>>   the only thing Malay about her is one of
>>>>>>>   her passports. ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Cheers!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Looks like she did not make it through to
>>>>>>   the round of 18.  Of the few I watched,
>>>>>>   one I thought quite poor did make it.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I am not entirely surprised. The Clickburn
>>>>>  is an unfriendly environment and ecosystem
>>>>>  to pianists who display too much nuance or
>>>>>  subtlety. It has been going downhill since
>>>>>  Radu Lupu won in 1966.
>>>>>
>>>>>  To make matters worse, the Clickburn does
>>>>>  not even provide decent instruments. The
>>>>>  Stoneway they use has a shallow hollow
>>>>>  tinny metallic tone.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I am very disappointed.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Cheers!
>>>>>
>>>>  From Ben Laude, whom I've found to be an
>>>>  astute listener:
>>>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQU--cC_vQ
>>>
>>> Yes, indeed. Ben has good ears. He is also
>>> rather naive about how competitions really
>>> work. The main reason Magdalene Ho was not
>>> promoted to the next stage is that she does
>>> not study (or appears to have studied) in
>>> any of the "top" US conservatories, or with
>>> anyone who is in the jury or even taken a
>>> master class with any of them. Color me
>>> cynical, I don't care.
>>>
>>> Who are your favorites so far?
>>
>> I'm not doing this systematically, and have
>> only heard a minority, whole recitals if I
>> can tolerate them.  In the prelims, apart
>
> I don't listen to the streamed live sessions.
> My strategy is to wait for the recordings of
> the complete sessions to be posted on YT and
> indexed. I then listen to key fragments. This
> is very efficient.
>
>> from Ho, I especially liked Elia Cecino -
>> you might not have, since the central work
>> was LvB, played rather straight but with
>> considerable lyricism. But I was less
>> impressed by his quarterfinals, in part
>> due to his choice of program.
>
> Cecino made it into the semi-finals. I did
> not like him.
>
>> Of the six quarterfinals I watched, the
>> mosg satisfying were those by Piotr
>> Alexewicz and (your earlier choice)
>> Chaeyoung Park. I would give an automatic
>> pass to the next round to the pianist whose
>> program consisted of the Hammerklavier.
>
> I would not! I would throw them out! ;-)

I would also throw out all the competitors
who programmed Stravinsky. ;-)

Cheers!