wow! incredible piano videos on youtube!

[retrouvailles]

Here are some videos of Ian Pace playing some etudes by Dusapin.

[retrouvailles]

And here is Scriabin's Piano Concerto. Quality is not that great.
EDIT: Removed for now. The quality was too bad.

[zheer]

  Librace moonlight.


     

[gerry]

Don't turn your nose up at Liberace. He introduced many to classics and light classics who would not otherwise have enjoyed the experience. His ability to temper his extraordinary technique combined with his showmanship made great works palatable to the least receptive and educated in his audiences and assured him widespread exposure on radio, records, his weekly television show, and most lately in Vegas. I wouldn't doubt that he actually inspired many youngsters to take up the piano if not to work harder at it. I know that's probably difficult for the young gereration to understand. I've read a lot of bitching and moaning on this forum about the inability for musicians to make a buck nowadays--Lee made a ton of them

[zheer]

Don't turn your nose up at Liberace.

   

[quantum]

Libertango

I can't stop watching this.  Everything about it is uber.

[counterpoint]

Don't turn your nose up at Liberace.

When watching these old shows with Liberace, and compare it to the gestures of musicians of today, it's a very surprising experience for me: what a modest person he was! 

[gerry]

When watching these old shows with Liberace, and compare it to the gestures of musicians of today, it's a very surprising experience for me: what a modest person he was! 

Yes indeed--I thought about Liberace's besequined outfits a while back as I watched that PBS multi-piano concert when a gaggle of today's greats played Stars & Stripes on something like 12 pianos--all were in tuxedos except LangLang in his bright silks. Showmanship ain't quite dead yet.

[moi_not_toi]

Yes indeed--I thought about Liberace's besequined outfits a while back as I watched that PBS multi-piano concert when a gaggle of today's greats played Stars & Stripes on something like 12 pianos--all were in tuxedos except LangLang in his bright silks. Showmanship ain't quite dead yet.

And I hope it doesnt.
There always needs to be someone weird in every crowd. Even the stuffy one. (j/k)

[counterpoint]

Yes indeed--I thought about Liberace's besequined outfits a while back

It seems, there's a little translation problem here 

I meant modest as the opposite of arrogant 

[gerry]

agreed - from what I've heard from people who knew him, I don't believe Lee was arrogant.

[counterpoint]

Beethoven Channel Surfing Part 1

[quantum]

Chopin Waltz

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[zheer]

  Piano lesson, this is tooooo funy.


     

[term]

  Piano lesson, this is tooooo funy.


     

muahahaha 
the part from 1:50 on with the octaves is absolutely great   

[quantum]

This is scary:

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[pianowolfi]

  Piano lesson, this is tooooo funy.


     

It's so funny because it's true. Nobody has ever treated me like that in a lesson---physically...



I hope I got my true lesson.... ( as a teacher )

[jlh]

This is scary:

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MY GOD!  Both her LH and her RH must be on autopilot and I counted at least 100 hand position changes in just 10 seconds and the LH and RH are in conflict with one another!!  I conclude that since her name is not Kastle she must be faking it!     

[zheer]

  Fazil say Beethoven


   

[gerry]

Why are the last two videos removed?

[quantum]

Speechless....  If you ever thought waltzes were boring, watch this!     

[gerry]

I never thought waltzes were boring - but I never thought they could be so inelegantly paraphrased , he though as he closed his eyes and tried to erase banality of the recently viewed images--the lanquid latte sipping, the lap dancing scene on the piano bench, the meaningless insertion of home movie-style fragments, the wearisome and recurring ardent gazes in each others' eyes, the irrelevant and often reckless manipulation of the music to accomodate a sometimes embarrasing physical gyration... (let's all play piano twister--attn. Pianostreet Kindergarten) Their act, clever at first, is getting a bit stale--time to move off the concert stage and on to Vegas to carry on the legacy of Ferante and Teicher, Liberace, and others.

[quantum]

If anything, it is us academics who incessantly insist that classical music only be served on a platter of sophisticate knowledge in order to be enjoyed who belong on such a Vegas stage.  For our act is quite definitely stale, so much so that we can not even see amusement in our own art without diverging into philosophical argument. 

[zheer]

   Amazing

       

[ramseytheii]

Boris Berezovsky, part of a new documentary on him which also focusses on his attraction to contemporary music, with the eccentric visionary composer Dafydd Llywelyn:

Walter Ramsey

[m]

Chopin Waltz

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Wonderful!!! Thank you.

I'd like to know the name of the performer.

[prongated]

I'd like to know the name of the performer.

...methinks Connelly Johnson, as written here:

[term]

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gould plays chopin 10/2 
at 2:30. might be interesting.

[sevencircles]

Volodos plays Horowitz transcription of Dance Macabre, watch out for the double notes at 4.40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzxK027Sxeg

[sideshow]

Mirek Coutigny (15, Ypres, Belgium) plays Beethovens Sonate Pathetique

He lives only 10 miles away from me and I secretly adore him

[mephisto]

Hamelin plays Szymanowsky's 2nd Piano Sonata:

[term]

Another nice gould recording. =)
moonlight sonata 3rd movement

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edit: one more video, really worth watching: a chopin fugue (afaik the only one?):

[retrouvailles]

Hamelin plays Szymanowsky's 2nd Piano Sonata:

Amazing!

[retrouvailles]

Here is Boulez's Sur Incises, conducted by the composer, with the Ensemble InterContemporain.

[pianowolfi]

Jorge Bolet, Chopin Sonata No 3, mvt. 4. Discuss!

[opus57]

Brendel in his younger years... wild and tempestuous. Playing Beethoven Bagatelles Op. 126 No. 1 and 2...

[counterpoint]

Brendel in his younger years... wild and tempestuous. Playing Beethoven Bagatelles Op. 126 No. 1 and 2...

He looks even stranger than the music sounds  

[opus57]

Yes, very theatrical... 

[zheer]

       

   historical,well worth watching.

[chopininov]

Ever heard of a guy named Golka? I found these videos of him playing well known songs that he's arranged. Very interesting. His arrangements echo of Chopin, Horowitz, and Volodos to me.

Here's his Chopin/Mozart-"Double Etude" (Op. 10 No. 2, and K.331)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1ingJShQc

And here's his Star's And Stripes/Deep in the Heart of Texas arrangement- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtU99aVP3s

[counterpoint]

Revolutionary Organ playing 

[zheer]

  Flipping ek.

[counterpoint]

  Flipping ek.

You mean "too much echo"?

Yes, as always: too much rubato, too much pedal 

[donjuan]

'wow! incredibl [ly ridiculously terribly sickeningly godawful] piano videos on youtube,' for your own amusement:

Richard Clayderman's POS rendition of Rhapsody in Blue: 

[retrouvailles]

Here are some videos with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Ursula Oppens. They're playing repertoire that they are usually not associated with.

[counterpoint]

Here are some videos with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Ursula Oppens.

Wow, Aimard's Brahms is brilliantissimo - thank you so much for the link!

[retrouvailles]

I have the entire quartet. I might post it a bit later.

[counterpoint]

I have the entire quartet. I might post it a bit later.

I would really appreciate it 

[quantum]

Cecil Taylor

[counterpoint]

Cecil Taylor

This sounds like someone, who practises Hanon - and he really hates it 













...it must be Bernhard