"Over the Top" can mean many things: brilliant and virtuosic to excess, eccentric in either positive or negative ways, and just plain outlandish. "Over the Top" also can define a performance that's so bad that it's good, whether in the hands of the super accomplished or sadly inept.
On this week's episode of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys, Jed Distler explores a wide range of "Over the Top" piano performances, running the gamut from jaw-dropping virtuosic feats to veritable party records. You'll hear everything from insanely fast Mozart to Liszt at a crawl, from unyieldingly willful Bach to Chopin on the verge of an emotional meltdown.
Tune in on Friday at 3:00 PM, with the rebroadcast Saturday at 6:00 PM, exclusively on The Classical Network and WWFM.org.
