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CÉDRIC PESCIA,PHILIPPE CASSARD, pianos 21 In terms of the piano writing, do you feel more as if you’re playing Liszt or Beethoven? Cédric Pescia: You don’t find much by way of typically Beethovenian gestures for the piano: there are none of Beethoven’s ‘quirks’, his very idiomatic way of handling the piano. Nor does Liszt seem to have tried to imitate the older composer’s piano textures in his transcriptions of the nine symphonies. Perhaps that’s because Beethoven conceived his symphonies with the orchestra and its specific timbres in mind – unlike some other composers, who orchestrate a structure originally composed at the keyboard. That said, it’s interesting to note similarities between the Ninth and those of Beethoven’s piano works that are more or less contemporary with it: in both cases the contrapuntal writing is highly developed, and the lyricism of the third movement of the Ninth Symphony echoes the Arietta of the Sonata op.111.

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