© AI Training forbidden - Selected Classical Music in the Poland of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

Thoughts and Highlights from Stage I DAY 1 Without what might appear as hyperbole and gross exaggeration, this competition is surely a unique event in the musical life of Europe and the world. I remember when the idea of a Chopin Competition on period pianos was first mooted over five years ago, how this concept was met with a degree of derision and scorn except from musicians with vision and the experience of playing instruments of the period, evoking that rare, irreplaceable soundscape and 'opening the doors of perception' of former times.  With technological advances, we are moving exponentially further and further from the source of this sublime music, ravaged rather by the our constructed notion of linear time. The preservation and context of these precious lost worlds of sound has massively advanced in importance. The range of original and newly crafted period pianos assembled in Warsaw for this competition is greater than ever as are the number of experienced applicants ...

  The last  Pleyel  (No.  14810) piano played by Fryderyk Chopin  Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw  A Different Virtuosity Pearls of the Period Piano in Warsaw The mystery of instrumental sound and performance before recording has become an irresistible lure in classical music. Even before 1800 musicians were becoming increasingly interested in the nature of 'ancient music' if not so much in the manner in which it was performed. Baron Gottfried van Swieten contributed to Mozart's love of Handel and Bach in Vienna.  Interest increased over the intervening years with the evolution of the humanist scholarly discipline of 'musicology'. Through the exciting explorations during the 1970s up to the present day, the so-called 'Early Music' movement and its now mainstream credibility has expanded exponentially in scope. This movement has become firmly established in Europe on the period piano,   notably in Warsaw. Inevitably musicological interest an...