Phrasing polytonal music

[mikkeljs]

I find quite a dilemma in this. If you are phrasing two voices, you are told to bring them out seperately. But often the most interresting happens between them, as the new voices grows out!

It´s clear that one have to train systematically, practice every notes even, staccato and forte and get as close contact to the keys as you can. But besides that. For a concert, I find a radical difference in playing from what pianists criticize for being bad phrasing or bad musicality and the most natural musical sound, which, in my opinion, is greater phrasing between the voices instead of the voices themself. Sometimes you loose the single voice into something strange because you want to work more directly with the things between. And that often happens in the best performances!

How do you handle that people dislike your playing for having a too musically sound?