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...ost complete agreement with. The other day, however, I was listening to Jarvi's performance of the above piece on Chandos and, wow, what a difference. About half way through the work, it turns from ag...
...h of these recordings are excellent and the addition of strong performances of the Rachmaninov and Bizet pieces makes it hard to pick the best performance of LBF... I highly recommend both recordings....
...t! I tend to just pop down to the local sheet music shop, find someting I like the sound of and play the piece over and over until I can play it to a standard I'm happy with.
I was playing a few tun...
...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...
I heard the Bartók piano sonata, Sz. 80, in recital tonight and it reminded me of how much I love this piece. It's so concise, brilliantly written and imaginative. There is a superb reading of Jando
...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...
...airly unfamiliar with classical music, I'm looking for a list [1] of suggested recordings/most essential pieces. My tastes tend to run towards full symphonies on the one hand, and some of the early ma...
I am searching for Sheet Music, [Piano] for this piece. I've done an extensive search within the Search Engines with no luck. If anyone could help it would mean the World.
Violetta Don't e-mail (old
...this sport are teenagers and it is a pleasure to watch their enthusiasm and skill at work. Falling off a piece of equipment before a world audience while competing for your country (pro-global types p...
...sic. The few that I can find in the music stores are either VERY basic (Easy Bealtes) or a collection of pieces that in my opinion are largely not really suited to solo piano.
Looking for an interme...
...nd J must play a composition from Studi and Sonate of Scriabin. Would anyone help me to choose the right piece ?...
...ing through Tim Richards' excellent book 'Improvising Blues Piano'. Early on in the book he introduces a piece called 'Trill Blues' which has a 3-5 finger trill. I find this really difficult, with the...
...d Orchestra - Symphonies 1-4 on Sony Richter - Piano Concerto on DG Originals, with numerous other piano pieces
Anyone have comments on these recordings (I figure you can't go wrong with Szell and R...
Hi,
Does anyone know where I could my hands on Horowitz' transcriptions of miscellaneous pieces? Are they available for sale?
Thanks,
Alexandre Vovan
...wn in the book is a 32nd note triplet followed by a 16th note. I have until about December to learn this piece but I don't think I could work the trills up to speed, as they are written in the book, b...
I have a piece that has a '15ma' written over one chord in the same form as '8va' (octave). What am I supposed to do with the 15ma?
...e Busch Quartet Live (Beethoven and Mozart) Mark and Michal Hambourg Leo Sirota playing Russian Romantic pieces (including the Tchaikovsky Piano Sonata) several discs of Chaliapin Busoni, Ley and Petr...
...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...
...om your other attempts to be funny, like the pictures of the Grotrian or whatever it was that was all in pieces.
You don't have much to do, do you?
Larry Fletcher Pianos Inc Atlanta GA Dealer/tech...
...n block; she does shine.
Ravel - Miroirs Played very, um, politely, with all the notes in place. Every piece played exactly the same, and all sounding like Oiseaux tristes. I wonder if, to Simon, al...
...ench butts' for the hammers, with the return spring attached to the butt itself and given tension from a piece of silk cord on the flange. Similar to a new Yamaha U1 in many respects.
didn't wish to...
...alevski's Requiem, on a CD conducted by the Composer, recorded about 40 years ago.
It is a superlative piece of music, about 90 minutes long, for soloists, choirs (including an outstanding section f...
Please help me. I am looking for scores for piano duet of the piece of Hallelujahs in Handel's Messiah. If you have the piece, please let me know what bookstores I am able to get it. Or, any websites
...s right foot too much. His entire perverse effort was successful: Mozart was reduced to mush or turn the piece into Tchaikovsky. Ivan Fischer was polite and went along. But a number of enlightened BSO...
...nd it. I have Marie Claire Alain's 1995 2-disc set from Erato, which is far from her best playing. A few pieces are good; a few are great; a few just don't work (like the Chorals in E major and B mino...
...anuary 1939 by the 30-year-old David Oistrakh. It's a real stunner - do hear it.'
Does anyone know the piece?...
...The Diana Ross song is the Theme To Mahogany but I don't know if that melody was lifted from a classical piece.
The most famous example is A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum, which is inspired b...
I am desperately looking for Emile Pessard's ANDALOUSE. A short piece for flute. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
This is not a fake or a joke. Andre Watts performed a short piece on (if I remember correctly) an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and it was a piece by Franz Lizst . . . a short piece (2-4 min.) V
...ordings ever, commercial or otherwise, of Taneyev's First? His second and fourth (both mighty, beautiful pieces which I recommend to the skies) have been recorded numerous times, and I've managed to h...
... myself sitting on the balcony, sipping my Lavazza espresso cup, and playing in my mind an entire Chopin piece (do I sound like Niles from Frazier ? - I hope not !).
So, YOUNG fellows on rmmp, don't...
In a google search about the ECM Affanassiev Schubert D960, it was argued that the man interprets this piece like Furtwangler conducts/interprets his symphonies. Which other pianist interprets with bu
Lots of input from Eric Schissel here. As before, any duo pieces for cello and piano qualify.
J.S. Bach - ?(1685-1750)(transcriptions of 3 viola de gamba Sonatas) (many) Bernhard Romberg - ?(1767-18
...ing two Chopin preludes, Op 28, #4 and #20 (the obligitory Barry Manilow Prelude). Are there any similar pieces in terms of difficulty and aesthetic appeal? I'd like to round out the repetoire to mayb...
...ive in Riga).. Like Horowitz, DB is large-scaled, with a wide dynamic range. But Horowitz still owns the piece....unless anyone knows of a better one!
Rich Sauer...
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