Svetlana Belsky told me that when she played the Steinway B at 4th church (rebuilt by William Schneider of Racine WI, very stable piano) she would wreck the tuning and she was right! Incredibly correct so she is obviously used to doing so. I tend to agree, Susan. Same piano many different players and tough material, after tunings are very close. So begging the question, who is the most powerful player that you¹ve ever voiced/tuned for? On 11/8/10 2:33 AM, "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> wrote: > On 11/7/2010 12:47 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: >> >> What is the most powerful piece you've ever voiced/tuned for? > > There was the time Constantine Orbelian played the Schnittke concerto on the > SD-10 at Newport .... > > There were a few performances by Leon Bates, various big pieces. > > There was the time the nice Chinese man who had studied in Leningrad played > Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli ... > > There was the symphony concert with three different Russian pianists, each > playing a different concerto ... > > There was a piece by Olivier Messiaen which had pages and pages of loud > passage work in the very top register of the piano ... > > And this afternoon a wonderful Croatian pianist (Martina Filjak) played three > sonatas by Soler, two Chopin Ballades, a Prokofiev Sonata, two Scriabin > Preludes, and finished with Islamey by Balakirev. > > But you know, I think that the piano and the pianist both have a lot more to > do with how the tuning survives than the pieces played. Martina, for instance, > had a tremendous dynamic range and certainly didn't hold back; but when I > tuned early this afternoon after she had practiced, I realized that she just > was not the kind of pianist to throw anything very far out. > > Now that I think about it, all the performances listed did not mess up the > tuning much at all. I think I must be blanking out on the ones which did ... > > Susan Kline > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101108/b2566b51/attachment.htm>
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