{"id":5063,"date":"2016-06-17T00:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2016-06-17T00:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:59:36","slug":"perahia-on-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5063","title":{"rendered":"Perahia on Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray Perahia initially found Beethoven hard to understand: &#8220;I was always working on Beethoven, but I couldn&#8217;t feel close to him. \u00a0For nearly ten years I didn&#8217;t altogether like his music because I felt it showed an aggressive, up-front personality.&#8221; \u00a0But after studying, performing, and recording Beethoven (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Appasionata<\/span>,op. 2, op. 101 and the Piano Concertos), he remarks: &#8220;The more I studied Beethoven, the more I found his style is necessarily frank, open and human. \u00a0I have become completely won over by him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Nick Shave, &#8220;Mull Over Beethoven&#8221;, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">BBC Music<\/span>, July 2009, p.25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murray Perahia initially found Beethoven hard to understand: &#8220;I was always working on Beethoven, but I couldn&#8217;t feel close to him. \u00a0For nearly ten years I didn&#8217;t altogether like his music because I felt it showed an aggressive, up-front personality.&#8221; \u00a0But after studying, performing, and recording Beethoven (Appasionata,op. 2, op. 101 and the Piano Concertos), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[560,1349],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-beethoven","tag-murray-perahia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}