Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
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Challenging Performance offers a new approach to western classical music, encouraging and enabling performers to be more individual and creative. It shows how and why creativity is normally discouraged, why it should not be, and how it can become part of everyday performance. The linked website, challengingperformance.com, features podcasts, a free online book, and many new and highly imaginative performances. The project is aimed at young professional performers, musicians in the making, and open-minded lovers of classical music. We showcase recordings by contemporary performers who use a range of historical, modern and experimental approaches to revitalise the performance of...
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- Challenging Performance, Chapter 27 : Finally, the right to be different
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 26 : Speaking of others
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 25 : Speaking of contemporary concerns
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.4 : ‘Dido & Belinda’ -- what the audiences thought
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.3 : ‘Dido & Belinda’ -- what the performers thought
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.2 : How we made ‘Dido & Belinda’
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.1 : Reinterpreting opera
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.3 : Further transgressive performances
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.2 : How many Ave Marias?
- Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.1 : Exchanging the Moonlight and Erlkönig