Charles Rosen was a concert pianist, Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and the author of numerous books, including The Classical Style, The Romantic Generation (Harvard), and Freedom and the Arts (Harvard).
"p5 The independence of the voices in a fugue of this kind is absolute, but it can only be partially heard. The junction of two voices in a unison, wonderfully employed in the six-voice ricercar but a frequent effect in all contrapuntal writing, marks an extreme: the independence of the voices here p"
"The music gathers momentum slowly, like a story that takes its time getting under way. Until the great swell of excitement and intensity in the last third of the Ballade, there are only fluctuations of intensity, waves of lyric passion that break up and come together again. The fusion of narrative a"
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