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Title: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: Bob on December 18, 2018, 08:55:38 AM

What composers do we have where we have recordings of them playing their own music?

I'm thinking more piano pieces here.  A conductor might have a lot of recordings now.

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: mjames on December 18, 2018, 11:30:33 AM

Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Feinberg, and Gershwin off the top of my head.

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: dogperson on December 18, 2018, 03:47:45 PM

Add Ravel to the list

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: quantum on December 18, 2018, 08:12:06 PM

Medtner

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: ted on December 18, 2018, 09:15:21 PM

The recordings of Elgar improvising, made in a London studio in the 1920s and lost until the 1970s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2A4Z4_IQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2A4Z4_IQE)

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: visitor on December 18, 2018, 10:18:08 PM

The kap (one and only Niki Kapustin yeah!)

this is so groovy.


this too

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: outin on December 19, 2018, 03:16:08 PM

Shostakovich

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: visitor on December 19, 2018, 04:03:01 PM

Seymore Bernstein

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Post by: thalbergmad on December 19, 2018, 06:25:43 PM

Brahms

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: goldentone on January 04, 2019, 10:47:30 AM

Quote from: visitor on December 18, 2018, 10:18:08 PM

The kap (one and only Niki Kapustin yeah!)

this is so groovy.

The thread title should be emmended, "Recordings of REAL composers playing their own works"  Not music that isn't worthy to be heard in a supermarket, let alone a music hall.

Next thing you know someone will post Grainger playing his own works, which is actually others' work. . .

Really, visitor.

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: g_s_223 on January 04, 2019, 12:54:22 PM

Are piano rolls eligible? If so, then...

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: visitor on January 04, 2019, 08:36:01 PM

Quote from: goldentone on January 04, 2019, 10:47:30 AM

The thread title should be emmended, "Recordings of REAL composers playing their own works"  Not music that isn't worthy to be heard in a supermarket, let alone a music hall.

Next thing you know someone will post Grainger playing his own works, which is actually others' work. . .

Really, visitor.

ouey ouchey. i dig it though.
great minds find the extraordinary in the ordinary so there's that. :-)

ok  on the flip side,
Reger plays Reger

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: goldentone on January 06, 2019, 12:32:58 AM

Quote from: visitor on January 04, 2019, 08:36:01 PM

ouey ouchey. i dig it though.
great minds find the extraordinary in the ordinary so there's that. :-)

ok  on the flip side,
Reger plays Reger

The issue I have with Kap is that he mixed his genres.  Don't try to make classical jazz.  Gershwin succeeded in fusing them.  That is genius. :)

Stay away from supermarkets.

Title: Re: Recordings of composers playing their own works?
Post by: Bob on January 14, 2019, 12:16:09 AM

https://www.forte-piano-pianissimo.com/carlreinecke.html