wow! incredible piano videos on youtube!

[gerry]

Chopin's intro and ending just weren't enough for this performer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSdpT68rnk

[quantum]

Chopin again 

[instromp]

Chopin's intro and ending just weren't enough for this performer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSdpT68rnk

  .

[lau]

Chopin's intro and ending just weren't enough for this performer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSdpT68rnk

it seemed like she talked like she knew it all. those two glissandos pissed me off.

[gerry]

it seemed like she talked like she knew it all. those two glissandos pissed me off.

She Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[nanabush]

holy sh*t that chopin was awful... godamn it bothered me that [she] had her hands crossed and did some like wavy sh*t at the start... jeez that video should be banned

[rob47]

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

not sure what its about but i love it

[keasbey]

I wish I could say "one day"....  but in this case probably not

[quantum]

I wish I could say "one day"....  but in this case probably not

  

Thanks for posting it

[jlh]

Hamelin: Etude IX d'aprés Rossini "La Danza" (Tarantella napoletana).  Marc-André Hamelin made this phenomenal transcription and elaboration of Rossini's La Danza in 1987, and dedicated it to Russell Sherman.


Hamelin's performance:

Sandro Russo's performance in Rome(2006):

[Etude]

I wish I had one of these things...

[retrouvailles]

I wish I had one of these things...

Seconded! I would love to fool around on one and perhaps sightread some of Messiaen's stuff, if I could figure out how.

[pianowolfi]

My first encounter with this interesting instrument was in 2003 when I accompanied a choir at a concert which was dedicated mainly to works by Charles Koechlin (1867-1950), a French composer who was in love with this instrument and wrote a lot for it. He wrote also very interesting piano compositions.

[retrouvailles]

Yes, Koechlin has some wonderful stuff for that instrument. I really like Messiaen and Jolivet's works for it more though. Both seemed to have a more thorough understanding of it's capabilities and musical capacities. Nevertheless, I hope this instrument gets back in style.

[arensky]

Wow just ran across this on youtube, looks like it's part of the rest of the Bell Telephone Hour program where he plays the Rachmaninov Prelude in c# minor. It's 4 minutes of the Empreor Concerto finale! 

wow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDQRzYvFSDQ&feature=related

[tompilk]

i just uploaded this: https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MR6wyETodvs

[thierry13]

https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXi589eG2HI&feature=related

Amazing performance by Sokolov of the Chopin 2nd sonata.

[jlh]

[Etude]

I just discovered this

.  Such a great piece!

[dnephi]

Without a doubt!  It's my favorite piece written during my lifetime.

[Etude]

I was 1 when it was composed.     It's one of the few 20th Century pieces I've been able to get into immediately without having to go through the whole repeated listening routine.

[dnephi]

It's ingenious, well-written for the instrument, full of all possible brilliance, bearing exceptional sound and a powerful, dramatic atmosphere.  Furthermore, it's pianistic as Vine himself was a pianist.

[arensky]

Julius Katchen plays Brahms' Sonata No.2 Op.2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6z2VG2i2M

[retrouvailles]

We should make a thread asking people what their favorite piece written during their lifetime is. It would make for some interesting responses (or lack thereof). Unless, of course, people like Alistair Hinton reply. He has it easy.

[jlh]

Ok, so this one isn't a piano video, but hilarious nonetheless... a MUST SEE for anyone who's ever studied music history and theory!

 

[mephisto]

I just discovered this

.  Such a great piece!

Just watched this: Breathtaking Both the piece and the performance.

[quantum]

Ok, so this one isn't a piano video, but hilarious nonetheless... a MUST SEE for anyone who's ever studied music history and theory!

 

Hahaha.  Loved it.  So true. 

Makes the hours of sitting in theory class so worth it. 

[term]

I thought nobody should miss this wonderful recording of contrapunctus 14. It's a bit fast, but other than that, beautiful.

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[jlh]

I just found this today... you might recognise the composer.  I don't know if anyone has actually performed this or not.  Alistair?

[chopininov]

Hamelin you bastard.

[slobone]

Best performance ever of Kitten on the Keys?

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[slobone]

As long as we're doing player pianos:

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[jepoy]

Hi, I'd like to share this amazing Filipino composition, Mayon Fantasy, by Francisco Buencamino. Mayon is actually a famous volcano in the Philippines. The piece is about a happy town in the vicinity of Mayon, an eruption that destroys the town, a prayerful intermezzo, and a brilliant finale:

Some pics of Mayon:
https://www.geocities.com/bicolagnostics/LegazpiMayon.jpg
https://nimrodel.net/images/mayon_volcano.jpg

Enjoy!

[jlh]

Hi, I'd like to share this amazing Filipino composition, Mayon Fantasy, by Francisco Buencamino. Mayon is actually a famous volcano in the Philippines. The piece is about a happy town in the vicinity of Mayon, an eruption that destroys the town, a prayerful intermezzo, and a brilliant finale:

Some pics of Mayon:
https://www.geocities.com/bicolagnostics/LegazpiMayon.jpg
https://nimrodel.net/images/mayon_volcano.jpg

Enjoy!

What's up with her performing on an upright piano?  I looked at the other videos and she's definitely playing on a stage with an audience...

[retrouvailles]

More stuff for pianola. This is the mother of all pieces for pianolas.

[instromp]

12 yo blind pianist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlAEObm5qTI

[rob47]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MjTb5A68VA

TERRIFYING!

they have some hilarious ones in the related links though to uncreep you out after you watch it

[nanabush]

Holy crap, ya that freaked me out... the freggin pencil wouldn't budge his smile, but he was lookin around and stuff... scary sh!t if you ask me!!

[rob47]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MjTb5A68VA

TERRIFYING!

they have some hilarious ones in the related links though to uncreep you out after you watch it

hahaa one of the youtube comments:


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This young girl, on the cusp of womanhood,
discovers the clearly phallic big, yellow
Pencilface. Pencilface lures her in with the
promise to satisfy her still childish desires,
for sweets (it's so symbolic that the first
gift is a wedding cake!) and a kite, which
represents freedom. But it's all a trap, and
she is drawn into the abyss of sexual
promiscuity.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Very funny.

[chopininov]

This is my kinda gal:

[Etude]

I have no comment.

[slobone]

I have no comment.

Me neither. Oh wait, that's 3 minutes and 52 seconds of my  life I'll never get back.

[tds]

Me neither. Oh wait, that's 3 minutes and 52 seconds of my  life I'll never get back.

plus a few more seconds for typing the above message 

[irene_cantabile]

whoa... all of them was amazing!!

[slobone]

plus a few more seconds for typing the above message 

I type fast 

[tds]

I type fast 

n some split second on that too

[rob47]

orchestrated etude tableau op.39#6 by Resphigigigiogihodhofhjgih

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwoQc1W888

[chopininov]

orchestrated etude tableau op.39#6 by Resphigigigiogihodhofhjgih

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwoQc1W888

Oooh interesting. I've never heard the orchestral version before.

I still prefer

[tds]

omg