{"id":22895,"date":"2026-09-09T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22895"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:58:11","slug":"daily_4206_-_piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/09\/09\/daily_4206_-_piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4206 – piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First concert of this season’s solo piano series. Vikingur Olafsson, playing pieces in E major and E minor, by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.<\/p>\n

Last season, his performance of Bach’s Goldberg variations was the high point of the series for me. I was hoping for a similar experience, but most of this one was not really to my taste. Much of it was just… too much. Frantic, dramatic, all ten fingers hammering away at a breakneck pace like there’s no tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Somehow it becomes extra intense and overwhelming in a live performance – I listened to him playing the same set of pieces at home, and it felt quite different. Maybe because there are other things that I can pay attention to at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First concert of this season’s solo piano series. Vikingur Olafsson, playing pieces in E major and E minor, by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert. Last season, his performance of Bach’s Goldberg variations was the high point of the series for me. I was hoping for a similar experience, but most of this one was not really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,5,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-music","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22900,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions\/22900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}