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I loved the video of

1) Jozio playing the emperor
0 (0%)
2) Jozio playing Rocky's "it"
0 (0%)
3) Gilels making music on Rocky's 23/5
0 (0%)
4) Kissing playing same
0 (0%)
5) Neuhaus playing Brahms, illustrating what Gilels received and did not pass on
1 (16.7%)
6) Lang Lang getting a concept for a video game out of Prok 3
2 (33.3%)
7) & 8) Argerich giving heart attacks with same
0 (0%)
9) Argerich making wine
0 (0%)
10) A hint of how come Argerich's late Prokofiev is so much better (Ruby playing Paganini)
0 (0%)
11) Pletnev playing same sometime before conducting Option 8
1 (16.7%)
12) Ruby playing Brahms Capriccio in B Minor in the modern manner
0 (0%)
13) Danny and Ash when they were pups
1 (16.7%)
14) jazzmen trying to play same with help
0 (0%)
15) Ash much later following a path Danny travelled a century before
1 (16.7%)
16) Kempf playing some gorgeous Mozart a millenium ago when no one played Mozart (except for those who did)
0 (0%)
17) Benno, muy bueno
0 (0%)
18) Bolet playing the impossible made more complicated but not more difficult
0 (0%)
19) Bolet many moons later playing gorgeous Albeniz-Godowsky
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 6

Topic: Some fun stuff (lifechanging old school videos and a bit of Lang Lang)  (Read 1752 times)

Offline iumonito

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Have fun.  There is a method to the madness.   ;)

1) At the beginning, there was rythm
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=iDQRzYvFSDQ&feature=related

2) And from darkness, there came light
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=s6xUgx0iC1Q&feature=related

3) Although in Russia nothing is light: it is the heavy side of the world
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=VXU7I_Yyi2Y&feature=related

4) Although if you are young and everyone adores you, you can get away with being a lightweight.  You have to go to England, though
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=-D8hIeTwmck&feature=related

5) Because back in the homeland people still remember
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrQUJ4okM4&feature=related

6) But that's just Russia.  If you hop over the bamboo curtain you may buy a Nintendo knock-off and play Mortal Kombat, Prokofiev Edition (Rated R)
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=b85hn8rJvgw&feature=related

7) Flip that globe upside down and you will get a much more balanced view: land below for the foundation and Argnetina at the top of the world where it belongs.  (who exactly said the north was to be on top anyway?)
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=GYAAoeb7tzQ&feature=related

8)  Is there hope for Lang Lang?  Yes.  He shall stop playing publicly for a while and go take lessons with a good musician, play some chamber music and lots of Haydn.  I bet Martha would let him hang around as long as he does not stay up all night playing Nintendo.
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=5cOlpsPckHw&feature=related

9)  Today I fell back in love with Martha Argerich.  Lucky me.  :)
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=jXtjaAgaKs8&feature=related

10)  Life!  Life!  Oh, so much of it!
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=aIu-pR06okM&feature=related

https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ASR8dgqIU-g&feature=related

11)  Wait a minute, I thought this bloke was a conductor!
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bP1CdfM-8&feature=related

12)  In Schumann's Carnaval you have the Sphynx; in this thread this.  ASCH: Say, Calaf, what is a bridge between the grand and the modern, and the one who invented giving prizes at the Chopin on the spot if the jury did something stupid, years before Martha Argerich made a habit out of doing so pretty much everytime she sits in the jury box?  (Hint, Michel Block got the award, and well deserved it was!)
https://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=S3LEV5bssmo

13) The modern grand manner got its champions!
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14) Ah, but the world is not ready for good taste.  What's on Idol today?  I bet Simon and Paula could play this too.  Forget dancing with the stars!
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15) Just to clarify: yes, the other mate also can wave a baton and be exquisite.


16) In the olden days there were a few who played Mozart.  Note this is not Edwin Fisher or Lili Kraus.  Dame Myra Hess was about the only other person who played Mozart with any sense.  Sorry folks, but my adoration for Lipatti does not reach forgiving his Mozart (nor his Bach, but in his defense, it was all Cortot's fault).
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17) What?  You have never heard of the Grand Manner?  Give me 16 minutes.  Be an empty cup of tea and drink this.


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18) Popsy, didn't we make clear before that this was horribly complicated to begin with?


19) Now we are talking (hey, didn't I hear this in a Corigliano symphony?)
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Offline allthumbs

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Thanks for the links. There were some great performances from pianists, some of whom I hadn't heard before.

Quite a few of the links no longer had videos attached to them.

Cheers

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Offline Petter

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You should make numbers in the poll and at the videos, it will be easier to read.  :D
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Offline iumonito

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You should make numbers in the poll and at the videos, it will be easier to read.  :D

Sure, but that's like the fingerings in an Urtext edition: it just clouds free association.

I have caved, though, and numbers have been added.  One, one, one , one.   8)
Money does not make happiness, but it can buy you a piano.  :)
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