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Post by Hrothgar on Jan 13, 2023 16:39:49 GMT
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 15, 2023 23:01:29 GMT
OK.... Start with piano? You'll have to FF to 4:40 for the music to start.
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Post by Unwatchable on Jan 16, 2023 22:28:33 GMT
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 17, 2023 17:19:42 GMT
Of course no discussion of classical piano is complete without mentioning Horowitz.  Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 19, 2023 18:37:28 GMT
With his immaculate technique and mysterious disposition, Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920–95) made audiences and collaborators expect both cool perfection and temperamental unpredictability.
He withdrew from a late–1940s U.S. tour at the last minute, lamenting what he perceived as his promoter’s desire for him “to act as if I were from Barnum’s circus.” Infamously, he canceled a recital in the mid–’80s because fresh air let into the hall had altered the tuning of the piano. Michelangeli traveled with his own piano technician and often insisted that his personal Hamburg Steinway be shipped to recital venues.
His obsessive fussiness and prickly gloom led even the high-strung Vladimir Horowitz to remark that Michelangeli was “the crazy one.” But conductor Sergiu Celibidache didn’t blame the Italian pianist for canceling concerts, even with multiple pianos and technicians put at his disposal; for him, Michelangeli’s “sensitivity” was the price to pay for even the chance to witness a great artist’s revelations.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: "Mouvement" from Images 1st book - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Recording: Turin (Italy) - RAI Studios, August 13, 1962
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 20, 2023 17:24:06 GMT
I always liked classical music. Sparked probably from an old 78 around the house when I was kid("Peter And The Wolf/Narrated by Basil Rathbone") And Mom's "Nutcracker Suite" 78rpm "album" (Philly and Ormandy) But it wasn't until the mid '70's I started taking it more seriously. You know, names of pieces, composers and conductors. A co-worker who was an aficionado helped me out and once loaned me his copy of Debussy's "Images" played by Michelangeli and I rushed right out to get my own copy and played it until it was near translucent. And my CD reissue rarely gets put back in the rack. Michelangeli certainly did define the "temperamental artist". I saw him on a PBS presentation where that was discussed by the hosts. I wish I could have heard him live. But my hearing THIS guy live was a treat. It was the Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Dorati in my case. And in '77. Sepiatone |
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Post by Hrothgar on Jan 21, 2023 5:04:58 GMT
With his immaculate technique and mysterious disposition, Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920–95) made audiences and collaborators expect both cool perfection and temperamental unpredictability. He withdrew from a late–1940s U.S. tour at the last minute, lamenting what he perceived as his promoter’s desire for him “to act as if I were from Barnum’s circus.” Infamously, he canceled a recital in the mid–’80s because fresh air let into the hall had altered the tuning of the piano. Michelangeli traveled with his own piano technician and often insisted that his personal Hamburg Steinway be shipped to recital venues. His obsessive fussiness and prickly gloom led even the high-strung Vladimir Horowitz to remark that Michelangeli was “the crazy one.” But conductor Sergiu Celibidache didn’t blame the Italian pianist for canceling concerts, even with multiple pianos and technicians put at his disposal; for him, Michelangeli’s “sensitivity” was the price to pay for even the chance to witness a great artist’s revelations. CLAUDE DEBUSSY: "Mouvement" from Images 1st book - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano Recording: Turin (Italy) - RAI Studios, August 13, 1962 Something vaguely dissatisfying, that distinctive phrase played with the right hand ... I don' know, a little mechanical perhaps. Although in all fairness, this piece deviates from some of Debussy's more airy, lilting, and subtle fare.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 21, 2023 18:03:10 GMT
Here's another piece of Debussy's that isn't "airy and lilting". And an electronic interpretation by an electronic genius. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 22, 2023 4:54:10 GMT
The golden age of the piano indeed.
That Serkin clip was a real tonic. Just what I needed.
And I could have used a piano teacher like this....
Alfred Cortot: Master Class on Schumann Kinderszenen (1953)
Horowitz in tears!!! (live video)
The mot haunting moment is when he looks at the camera - at us
Lubov Timofeyeva plays Liszt. Moscow, TV, 1986.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 22, 2023 17:00:44 GMT
VERY nice clips Girrrl. Thanks.
And I'll come back with some more Schumann. My recording of this is with Horowitz, but I did find this YT offer....
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 23, 2023 5:30:18 GMT
I have to skip ahead, over flute, oboe, cello...
Your mention of wearing out records reminded me of this great story, although I still can't understand how as someone expecting Itzhak Perlman would be ok with a kid from junior high. Fun to imagine at any rate.
Gil Shaham:
"Sibelius Violin Concerto... I remember when I was maybe 12 years old and I had a recording at home of David Oistrakh....And I remember just listening to the opening of that concerto over and over and over again, hundreds of times, just being completely haunted by that beginning," Shaham shares.
"There's a little bit of history with that piece with Michael Tilson Thomas," Shaham continues. "When I was a junior in high school, I kind of had a very lucky break in the music world where the London Symphony was scheduled to play the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the great violinist Itzhak Perlman, who canceled. The very desperate orchestra — having been refused by 100 violinists first — ended up calling me. I got to fly on the Concorde because it was short notice."
Gil Shaham on the Sibelius Violin Concerto, David Oistrakh and Michael Tilson Thomas
Sibelius - Violin concerto - Oistrakh / Philadelphia / Ormandy
Studio recording, Philadelphia 26.XII.1959
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 23, 2023 17:12:46 GMT
I really like the music of Jean Sibelius. But I'm more drawn to his symphonies than violin concertos. Really, the only violin concerto I enjoyed was Tchaikovsky's. But too, seeing(and hearing) it done by Isaac Stern with the DSO might have had something to do with it.
But my introduction to Sibelius was when(then) Detroit's classical music station WQRS played this symphony one afternoon(and it remains one of my top 5 symphonies).
And Kamu is his best interpreter IMHO
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 24, 2023 1:58:10 GMT
I was really in the mood for some Wendy Carlos but as per usual the internets let me down.
On the plus side I now know she is a great photographer.
Carlos is also an accomplished solar eclipse photographer. Her work has been published online by NASA and has appeared on the cover of Sky & Telescope. She has developed various techniques for the extension of dynamic range in eclipse photography by the use of darkroom techniques and digital composites.
"Bach Transmogrified"
Clara Rockmore plays Tchaikovsky "Berceuse"
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 24, 2023 18:06:38 GMT
I get that. I tried also to find Wendy's version of Bach's Brandenburg concerto #3 from the SWITCHED ON BACH 2000 recording, and no luck. Did find other electronic versions, but not Wendy's. I also still have the very scratchy '68 LP, somewhere down in my basement. But I brought this man up before.... So let's get a bit more into the modern electronic treatments of classical music with version of VENUS from Gustav Holst's THE PLANETS by ISAO TOMITA Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 26, 2023 6:12:50 GMT
VENUS from Gustav Holst's THE PLANETS by ISAO TOMITA I'm not sure if I would prefer to listen to this in an isolation tank or at a Laserium show. I only went to Laserium once for From here to Tranquility with Deepspace. Tomita would have been great. Back to Bach...oddly appealing. Les Swinger Singers J S Bach Concerto in F Major largo 1969 |
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