Continuing on with discussion of the "Serioso," just the other day I chanced upon a YouTube video of Benjamin Zander conducting an "interpretation class" during which he stresses the importance of following Beethoven's tempo markings for the first movement. The video begins with a quartet playing the movement at what I assume is modern standard performance tempo. Zander then has them play it at B's designated tempo. For my money, the movement is ever so more exciting and alive at the faster tempo. Zander is an .... ummmm... enthusiastic instructor. Good stuff.
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Been listening to 2 pieces.
First, Steve Reich: Piano phase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P_9hDzG1i0
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Originally posted by Quijote View PostBeen listening to 2 pieces.
First, Steve Reich: Piano phase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P_9hDzG1i0
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Originally posted by Chris View PostIt would be quite the challenge for two pianists to actually play this together live!
Now imagine only one pianist on two pianos doing it (nor the best performance ever, but bravo even so): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQdP03iYIo
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Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel.
A very pleasant way of playing around with an F major scale.
What do you think? Melancholic, certainly. Great music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS7qmtQLSyY
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Mozart: Piano concerto no.26, Friedrich Gulda at the piano.
This concert begins in an odd way. The pianist repeatedly striking a key on the piano while the orchestra plays. In Mozart's time the piano used to enter after an orchestral introduction. And the pianist plays only one note: a D natural!
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Originally posted by Quijote View PostArvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel.
A very pleasant way of playing around with an F major scale.
What do you think? Melancholic, certainly. Great music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS7qmtQLSyY'Man know thyself'
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During the 1960s, he became the first pianist ever to record the entire piano works of Beethoven (on the Vox label), a set which, in the opinion of one critic, contains 'some of the finest Beethoven ever recorded'. In the 1970s, Brendel returned to Beethoven with a complete cycle of the piano sonatas on the Philips label. With this 10-CD set, Brendel becomes the first pianist to have recorded Beethoven's 32 sonatas three times. Although presented in broadly chronological order, there are some exceptions – on the second, fifth and seventh to ninth CDs. Also a minority of these performances are live. The first two are analogue cycle, this is digital.
The Philips recordings are my favourite.Last edited by Fidelio; 06-06-2018, 01:55 PM.Fidelio
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