About Authentic Sound
Authentic Sound, founded by Wim Winters, is an innovating and open platform a for musical experiment. We believe many of the essential aspects of performance practice of music from Bach to Beethoven and Beyond, still wait for us to be discovered.
The only goal we have, is to share this fascinating ongoing journey of discovery with you, to inspire you on your own journey as a musician or music lover, to be touched by the budding beauty of often longtime hidden musical emotions that blossem up every step we come closer to the original composer’s idea.
Entries by Authentic Sound
Chopin’s Unique Tribute to Bach: his Etude in C Major
2nd September 2018 by Authentic SoundChopin, Etude opus 10 no 9 in Chopin’s tempo
20th June 2018 by Authentic SoundBeethoven’s 5th: Do we still hear his Message Today?
Beethoven’s fifth symphony is probably the world’s most well-known classical music piece. But are we indeed familiar with the original version? Do we still play his famous symphony today in correlation with the notation Beethoven used? Let’s see if we can reconstruct the master’s intentions here. You may be surprised of the outcome!
Schumann’s “incomprehensible lack” of tempo judgment
Famous pianist Godowski wrote in his 1915 edition of Schumann’s Kinderscenen that Schumann had “an incomprehensible lack of judgment in deciding the speed of every number”. In other words: a great composer, but a musical ignorant…? We may not say or write these kind of things anymore but… we still act in our performances accordingly, not paying attention to Schumann’s carefully given metronome numbers.
Let’s dive into this fascinating subject together and, really first time here on the channel, I’ll demonstrate some pieces on my 1866 Erard piano.
Check out our latest blog posts!
- YES!!! We DO play TOO FAST: The 1816 “Maelzel” Metronome Directions explained 12th September 2018
- Chopin’s Unique Tribute to Bach: his Etude in C Major 2nd September 2018
- Too Slow? V. Lisitsa’s and M.Pollini’s Chopin Etude opus 10 n°12 18th August 2018
- Frédéric Chopin, Etude C#Minor, opus 10 nr.4 in Chopin’s Original Tempo 30th July 2018
- Is Pollini’s Chopin Etude Opus 10 no 9 too slow? 20th June 2018
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