Style Brillante: Piano technique in Performance Practice of early 19th century. Critical reflection

The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme - The Norwegian Academy of Music (2006-2011). - Documentation of the project can be divided into three main groups: CDs, radio programmes, news-paper reviews, and written material. I regard the CDs as the most succesfull part of the artistic documentation. Concert and CDs were the form I could express myself pianistically, and I am quite pleased with the result. My intention was not to critizise the traditional way of playing and to demonstrate the right way, but rather to search for the alternative solutions and open the minds with the variety of choices. The audible result I achieved expressed my ideas as I planned it, and I regard these projects as a success. Radio programmes was an attempt to disseminate result of my research. I think I managed to convey my ideas and got a chance to exemplify them with some sound examples and pieces as a whole. The fact that NRK radio was so interested to follow up this project and made 3 radio programmes about different aspects of my project in 2 years, let me think that these programmes were successful. News-paper articles contented encouraging commentaries and some constructive critics, that as a whole made me more confident in my ideas. The part I am most concerned about is my written materials. The Artistic Programme does not allow a researcher to have a theoretician as a supervisor, this is why in the very start of my project, the goal was to concentrate on the performance display only. I think, absence of a theoretic specialist as one of supervisors, in my occasion, played an unfortunate role. My project was crossing the practical and the theoretical fields. Now, after completing my research, I have got quite a significant amount of written sketches and notes, that are asking for being transformed into the form of article of a conference paper, or even a separate PhD.