{"id":5501,"date":"2018-10-15T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2023-05-28T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T05:05:57","slug":"the-art-of-pedalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5501","title":{"rendered":"The art of pedalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The one bee in my bonnet is over-pedalling, and I give my students a hard time about that. It&#8217;s the lack of being able to play a true legato with the fingers.\u00a0 People rely on the pedal for that, and the pedal is not there for that.\u00a0 The pedal is for putting the gloss on.\u00a0 There has to be something underneath that has to be controlled and beautiful.\u00a0 &#8230; Rubinstein&#8217;s playing is a lesson in how to pedal.\u00a0 You never hear people coming out of a concert and saying: &#8220;Wow, wasn&#8217;t that great pedalling!&#8221; If it&#8217;s good, you don&#8217;t notice it.\u00a0 Rubinstein&#8217;s pedalling in the nocturnes is just amazing.\u00a0 These nocturnes are difficult to pedal, yet his pedalling is mind boggingly good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jonathon Plowright, pianist<br \/>\nCited in: Worth, Erica.\u00a0 &#8220;Chopin with a twist&#8221;, <em>Pianist<\/em>. London: Warners Group Publications, vol. 54, p.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one bee in my bonnet is over-pedalling, and I give my students a hard time about that. It&#8217;s the lack of being able to play a true legato with the fingers.\u00a0 People rely on the pedal for that, and the pedal is not there for that.\u00a0 The pedal is for putting the gloss on.\u00a0 [&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":[573],"tags":[1464,1463,782],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-practice","tag-jonathon-plowright","tag-pedalling","tag-performance-practice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","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=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6998,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}