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... it is just not there. I can go surfing on the Internet looking for material of interest, or reread old pieces and still nothing will happen. (Same happens if I want to play or paint or even find my ...
...Yefim Bronfman.) On the other hand, if you can play continuo parts for Baroque suites and large ensemble pieces (e.g., Handel's Messiah requires BOTH organ and harpsichord continuo parts) you could fi...
...f Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. I have read that one important part of memorization is to analyze the piece. I think this will work well for this piece because once I learn the chords of the Theme,...
Pieces for Cello & Orchestra originating in the countries of Portugal (P), Spain (S), and Italy (I),- but also Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, etc., if anyone knows of any.
Antonio Vivaldi
Hi everyone, I am a high school Junior and currently in need of a new intermediate-advanced level piano piece to study on (I've been playing for 6 years). I am only interested in pieces with the follo
Don't know much here, - the two pieces Eric mentioned elsewhere and a few other things.
Yuzo Toyama - 1967(Concerto) (EMI) Isnag Yun - 1976(Concerto) (Camarata) Toro Takemitsu - 1984('Orion & Pleiad
...s, Book I transcribed for solo piano by Moszkowski and Etudes op. 91 by Moszkowski. I have yet to hear a piece by MM that I've never liked. Utterly charming music. How is his orchestral music?
For t...
Hi,
I remember reading a while back a book which illustrated how to analyze a piece for memorization. It use Beethoven's first piano sonata Op. 2 No. 1 in F Minor ('Little Appassionata'?) to illustr
...he Salzburg Festival, 1963-1979
Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in symphonic and choral masterpieces, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival from 1964 to 1979. Three discs of the four-CD se...
Hello, All:
Happy New Year!
The pieces I am practicing now contain some left-hand wide-span arpeggios. For instance
G2 D1 B1 D1 B1 D1 B2 D1 B1 D1 A1 C (String 1)
and
D2 A2 F#1 A2 F#1 A2 F#2
...a virtuosity that is controlled and not ostentatory. Ohlsson of course has the technique needed for that piece, and I believe that because of his large hands some things may be a bit easier for him th...
MAH is currently adding this work to his repertoire - a recent recital in Toronto included 6 of the pieces (first and third books) And I suppose that eventually he will get around to recording it for
...tion of Fratres. I may have seen a short excerpt of the Tallis Fantasia in a volume of popular classical pieces, and there is a piano version of the Fantasia on Greensleeves.
If you like Vaughan Wil...
... me.
I actually like the performance, Bob Lombard, but I culled it because of too many versions of the piece.
Paul Goldstein...
I've heard him mentioned so many times in this group. The few cds I have are ok, but the only piece I love is 'unanswered question'. Can the group perhaps suggest some pieces which make clear why he i
...is from a broadcast on May 16, 1965. I was stunned by the very measured, yet intense performance of this piece, at first finding it offputting, then after several listenings absolutely entranced by it...
...liar with) by Lizst. I have the sheet music and eventually when I have time, I'd like to learn the whole piece....
...e solos A collection of easy trombone solos A collection of easy viola solos A collection of easy violin pieces A collection of easy violin solos A collection of songs America loves A collection of so...
...between two groups that produce music with sharply contrasting characters. Répons is scored for a forty-piece chamber orchestra made up of winds, brass, and strings and six soloists who play instrume...
...both concertos side by side.
Do any of you know where this recording is nowadays?
The history of the piece, as I understand it, is that CPE made an arrangement of what was, originally, a violin co...
...ovement), the introspective meandering (3rd movement) and to the glory at it's girth (finale) gives this piece the x-factor which is missing from the Sawalisch. Let's not overlook Schumann's fate as i...
.... For Mr. Detrich, a slender man captivated by piano lore, providing musicians the chance to play period pieces on period instruments became an obsession.
'I cannot understand how a music school can...
...as an opus number of 147. Can someone please recommend one or more good and available recordings of this piece?
Unfortunately I don't have a D. number for this work. (And just for an abundance of cl...
I include pieces for Cello & Orchestra originating in the countries of both North and South America.
Edward MacDowell - ?(1860-1908)('Romanze') (RCA, Naxos) Victor Herbert - 1885(Concerto No.1), 189
...earth takes this crap seriously?
The Judd-RVW disc in fact presents uniformly mediocre performances of pieces of which there are fine, even great ones in abundance. For starters, there is a terrible...
... the original music. I play the piano because I want to play music I love. And I get more from playing a piece of music myself than listening to great recordings (which I still do an awful lot of). So...
...No. 5
SC002 – Brahms Four Symphonies with Munich Phil. (1974/5) (Probably with some other orchestral pieces)
SC001 - with Zurich Tone Halle Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1971) Dvorak: Sym...
...now for about 6 months, and my instructor is becoming annoyed with me. Why? Because as soon as I learn a piece of music I stop looking at the notes because they are too hard for me to read well.
Som...
...out now and buy? Or should I look for someone else's take on the music?
For that matter, the only Bach pieces for stringed instruments that I have are a few isolated pieces on old LPs...so I guess I...
I second that advice; this piece (actually practically all pieces with pedal) should at least initially be practice w/o pedal, and then pedal added later. Also, in Chopin, the thumb and pinky have spe
....)
By the way, for Verdi fans who may not be in the habit of reading The Gram regularly: John Steane's piece on _Luisa Miller_ in that July issue is really good. It's ostensibly a survey of the avai...
...akuschnerova.com
Then some complained that they still cannot listen to MP4s. Now I've posted all these pieces also in MP3 on the 'Downloads' page of Kuschnerova's web site. Those who can listen to b...
...experience of the pre-war orchestral style in which the NQHO performs.
'The fanfares were mainly short pieces of two to three minutes and some were just little flourishes,' explained Mr Butterworth....
I have recorded four solo piano pieces with Steinberg The Grand. They can be downloaded from http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~kumanov/music
Enjoy it! ...or hate it :)
...ven and Chopin. Now I'm on a market for a digital piano to practice (only technique and few studies, not pieces, like Beethoven's sonatas) late in the evening. I searched around for information and fo...
... hand alot on this.
But now the right hand... I can't seem to get it right. I think this is a populair piece so there must be lots of people here who can help me....
...r any of this mysterious 'nuance'. For one, it seems that half peddling is rarely needed. I did play one piece where my teacher suggested it, but I believe I was able to learn that technique even thou...
...rplayed by you at one time that you simply can't stand to listen to them any more? They may be wonderful pieces but as soon as you hear those opening notes your heart sinks as you think: 'Not again!' ...
...stened to Horowitz Redicovered yet? It includes a complete Carnegie Hall Recital (Nov 16, 1975), and the piece de resistance is the Sonata in f minor Op. 14 by Schumann (dubbed Concert sans orchestre)...
I used to won a BASF LP of the Schumann concerto for 4 horns. Also on the recording were pieces by Weber and Schoeck. Hermann Baumann was the soloist (among others in the Schumann) and the Vienna Symp
Pieces for Cello & Orchetsra, - I'm trying to be as reasonably inclusive as possible based on one or another criteria (birth or residence of the composer for example).
Paul Juon (S) - 1914('Mysterie
...e of the quartet stuff from the mid 70ties.
Then there's people like:
Art Tatum (buy the solo master pieces, and listen to a man that Vladimir Horowitz caught every chance he had) Fats Waller (gre...
Hi,
OK, here's another question about new my favorite set of pieces... Does anyone have suggestions for how to play the extended left-hand trills in Bach's Inventions? Many of the Inventions have ex
...mong my favorite early Mozart works. I admit to being 'imprinted' on Heifetz' stereo recordings of these pieces.
I'm aware that Heifetz' Mozart may not be in step with current notions of Mozart perf...
... Erde [cond], Acad of Santa Ceciia PEARL 0199
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VANGUARD CLASSICS joins KOCH Masterpieces Line - 'Twofer' re-issues
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Mieczslaw Horszowski [pi...
I like Rite of Spring wild and Barbaric , How would you rate Jansons'recording of this piece If you had to compare it to Bernstein's recording with NY Philharmonic or Dorati's recording with London Sy
What is your favourite recording of that master-piece ? Maybe some of you won't like this: but the Vengerov+Rostropovich (LSO) version sounds like heaven The Mordkovitch+Jarvi is also great (better vi
...ave pointed me toward:
Keyboard works: Prussian sonatas, Württemberg Sonatas and six sets of keyboard pieces für Kenner und Liebhaber ('for connoisseurs and amateurs'), and, his Oratorio, Die Aufe...
...ssohn in this Oratorio, conducted by Botstein. In Bruch's day it was very popular. There is another good piece of Odyssey music, Rimsky-Korsakov's Iz Gomera for orchestra and woman's chorus. It is ava...
...e Chicago symphony orchestra in 1940.
The NPR announcer also said that Stock played the violin in this piece in an orchestra conducted by the composer himself.
Does anyone have any comments on thi...
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