{"id":382,"date":"2009-12-17T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/12\/rattle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:20:00","slug":"rattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/12\/rattle.html","title":{"rendered":"Rattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fou_Ts'ong\">Fou Ts&#8217;ong<\/a> played a solo concert in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan_Hall\">Jordan Hall<\/a> including Chopin&#8217;s Opus 35 Sonata. In the famous &#8220;Funeral March,&#8221; he made an unbelievable racket with the left-hand <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin: 16px 8px 10px 88px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/Chopin35.jpg\" alt=\"Chopin35.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"114\">trills. They were noisy, unpleasant, almost veering out of control. In a masterclass at New England Conservatory, during that same visit to Boston, Fou Ts&#8217;ong manifested such subtly refined attention to details of sound, and line, and phrase. Everything. But, those trills in his playing of the sonata were raucous and harsh.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, Kristian Zimerman played in Jordan Hall. His program also included Chopin&#8217;s Opus 35. Finely crafted, the whole performance was fastidious, with lovely sound and expert shaping. When it came to the &#8220;Funeral March&#8221; those trills were full-bodied, loud, and almost elegant. And, I found myself missing Fou Ts&#8217;ong! Missing the noise, missing the near loss of control, those horrible intrusions &#8212; missing the sound of Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pianist Fou Ts&#8217;ong played a solo concert in Jordan Hall including Chopin&#8217;s Opus 35 Sonata. In the famous &#8220;Funeral March,&#8221; he made an unbelievable racket with the left-hand trills. They were noisy, unpleasant, almost veering out of control. In a masterclass at New England Conservatory, during that same visit to Boston, Fou Ts&#8217;ong manifested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,171,295,298,296,302,300,303,297,299,304,301],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-chopin","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-fou_tsong","11":"tag-funeral-march","12":"tag-jordan-hall","13":"tag-kristian","14":"tag-kristian-zimerman","15":"tag-opus-35","16":"tag-piano-recital","17":"tag-sonata","18":"tag-trill","19":"tag-zimerman","20":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}