Notes on Chopin by Gide André; Frechtman Bernard;

Author:Gide, André; Frechtman, Bernard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Philosophical Library/Open Road

June 3, 1921.

… Returned to Chopin’s Barcarolle which is not so difficult to play more quickly as I had thought; and I’m getting there (I let myself be far too intimidated by the brio of the others),—but in this way it loses all character, all emotion, all languor; and that above all is what is expressed in this admirable work: the languor in excessive joy. It seems that there is too much sound, too many notes once one no longer understands the perfect significance of each one. Any good performance should be an explanation of the work. But the pianist strives for effect, like the actor; and effect is usually obtained only at the expense of the text. The performer knows very well that the less I understand, the more amazed I shall be. But the fact is that what I want is to understand. Astonishment in art has value only if it yields immediately to emotion; and most often it prevents it.

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