Wim Winters Double Beat theory - authentic sound or insanity? On his channel Authentic Sound Wim Winters has successfully tuned off monitors to planet earth, arguing that a proper understanding of metronome markings should lead us to play everything twice slower.
In this video I am not debunking Wim Winters. Instead of asking Is Wim Winters wrong, I reflect on his version of the double beat theory as a poetic and absurd intensification of historical performance practice ideas.
For a critique of Wim Winter's tempo ideas on their own terms, see Patrick Hemerle's channel Pianopat. You can find Pianopat Wim Winters critique in this playlist -
https://youtu.be/rqkvAyMoJ04
Others who have commented on Wim Winters' wbmp tempo theory include Simon Danell, David Arditti, BachScholar, Bradley Scarff piano, Daniel Waitzman.
Authentic Sound Wim Winters Hammerklavier sonata peformance by Alberto Sanna is here. Lasting one and a half hours!!! https://youtu.be/IFYdLxDcF90
Here is Wim Winters himself playing Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata opus 57 in 52 minutes!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OvRvufB3o&t=341s
00:00 How Wim Winters changed human history via his genius double beat theory.
02:10 How Pianopat critiqued Wim Winters on his own terms.
2:52 Can you debate flat earthers?
04:10 Alfred Brendel and Isaiah Berlin
05:38 Why there is no such thing as 'tempo research'
06:45 The most basic thing Wim's theory misconceives about classical music
08:10 Artur Schnabel on interpretation
12:30 The period performance movement
15:40 Wim Winters on Hammerklavier Sonata tempo
19:20 Overruling a composer's tempo indications
21:28 Why do people like Wim Winters?
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