What are you listening to right now?

[pianowolfi]

[m1469]

Great!  I am so happy you've started a thread like this again, as I've numbers of times wished the old one was still here, but it never occurred to me to start a new one ... haha!

*listens to Wolfi's posting*

[m1469]

Wow!  This is so good!  Thank you for finding/sharing this.

[pianowolfi]

Wow!  This is so good!  Thank you for finding/sharing this

I like it very much It has been the last video of a listening journey I just did, that brought me from Ligeti  (via many others) to Bach.

[thalbergmad]

  [/youtube]

[opus10no2]

[m1469]

Okay, I erase again  .  Sorry about it  .

[Derek]

[pianowolfi]

I don't understand much of it but Portuguese sounds very beautiful to me

[floydcramerfan]

Well, right now I'm listening to your Bach video, but it has quit playing now, so I hope it's okay to post this.  I don't know how to embed videos, so I'll just do it the way I know how.

[pianowolfi]

Well, right now I'm listening to your Bach video, but it has quit playing now, so I hope it's okay to post this.  I don't know how to embed videos, so I'll just do it the way I know how.

Hey yes of course, this thread is for everybody and you can post whatever you are listening to right now To embed a youtube video you click on the youtube button above the happy smiley. There will appear: [ youtube]  [ /youtube] (without the spaces) and then you post the youtube link between these two youtube tags.

[floydcramerfan]

I think you have to have vision for that.  My screen reader doesn't like stuff like that.

It's sort of a southern gospel/classical version of this song.

[m1469]

Chopin's Ballade no. 1 in G Minor, played by Rubinstein, from the official recordings selections here on PS (pretty awesome that they are here, all in one place ).  I am going to start learning this  .  Then, I'll listen to the other recordings from the same collection.  Then maybe others, too  . 

[m1469]

Okay, I don't foresee myself posting for everybody I listen to, but I *have* to remark about Michelangeli, he sits *low*!  The keyboard portion is practically at his chest!  What the?  Does he have short arms?  Long torso?  

Woah ... Kissin's pretty fast  :-.

[m1469]

woah, woah ... Richter baby ... Chopin, Ballade no. 1 in g minor.  This is an inspired performance!  This is really electrifying!  My goodness!!!  

*doesn't just clap, but bows to Richternessness*

I have officially just fallen into love with Richter, after a lifetime of never having been in love with him before  :-  

Horowitz is next.  What if I don't like his recording after listening to Richter's crazy amazingness?

*feels nervous deep inside*

[furtwaengler]

woah, woah ... Richter baby ... Chopin, Ballade no. 1 in g minor.  This is an inspired performance!  This is really electrifying!  My goodness!!!  

*doesn't just clap, but bows to Richternessness*

I have officially just fallen into love with Richter, after a lifetime of never having been in love with him before    

Horowitz is next.  What if I don't like his recording after listening to Richter's crazy amazingness?

*feels nervous deep inside*

Welcome to the club! He is my very favorite pianist, Sviatoslav Richter. Unfortunately though I was a big Horowitz fan as a youth, and he had much influence on my development, once I got Richter I've had a difficult time listening to Horowitz. Granted Richter is not the only reason for this...I think I just grew past Horowitz. 

[ahinton]

Okay, I don't foresee myself posting for everybody I listen to, but I *have* to remark about Michelangeli, he sits *low*!  The keyboard portion is practically at his chest!  What the?  Does he have short arms?  Long torso?

Sadly, he hasn't had either for some 16 years now, but yes, he did adopt a low position at the keyboard, rather as Glenn Gould did. It's a matter of personal preference, I guess. One of ABM's pinncipal heroes as a pianist was Rakhmaninov, whose seating position at the piano was nevertheless quite different, but of course SVR was a fair bit taller than most of us anyway! You'll doubtless also notice that ABM's physical stance at the piano is about as economical as it gets - the smallest possible amount of facial muscle movement (i.e. almost none) and just enough movement of other muscles to achieve what he wanted to achieve - in other words, one of the world's least demonstrative pianists (and in this he was a good deal more akin to SVR). Sadly, I only heard ABM live twice...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

For the second time I listen to the 1st PC by Einar Englund this morning.

My word, I like something written after 1950

Thal

[furtwaengler]

My love for Boris Tishchenko continues to abound.

[m1469]

Welcome to the club! He is my very favorite pianist, Sviatoslav Richter. Unfortunately though I was a big Horowitz fan as a youth, and he had much influence on my development, once I got Richter I've had a difficult time listening to Horowitz. Granted Richter is not the only reason for this...I think I just grew past Horowitz.  

Yes, I suddenly want to listen to everything Richter ever recorded.  I mean, I've heard him before and I've never disliked him, but for whatever reason he blasted me in this recording.  Maybe I've only just become capable of hearing him?  Maybe this particular recording is something outstanding amongst the others?  I don't know.  But, I'll listen now to as much as I can, I think.  I do feel that he has surpassed my thoughts on Horowitz, but we'll see how the rest of my life goes, I guess  .

Sadly, he hasn't had either for some 16 years now, but yes, he did adopt a low position at the keyboard, rather as Glenn Gould did. It's a matter of personal preference, I guess. One of ABM's pinncipal heroes as a pianist was Rakhmaninov, whose seating position at the piano was nevertheless quite different, but of course SVR was a fair bit taller than most of us anyway! You'll doubtless also notice that ABM's physical stance at the piano is about as economical as it gets - the smallest possible amount of facial muscle movement (i.e. almost none) and just enough movement of other muscles to achieve what he wanted to achieve - in other words, one of the world's least demonstrative pianists (and in this he was a good deal more akin to SVR). Sadly, I only heard ABM live twice...

Best,

Alistair

Well, I marvel at the opportunities individuals have had to have seen these pianists live.  

[m1469]

Mark Westcott, Rachmaninov Etude Tableaux no.2 in eb-minor

[pianowolfi]

[m1469]

I'm listening to Marik play Rachmaninov, Moment Musicaux, Op. 16

On this site here:

https://www.classicalconnect.com/Mark_Fouxman/833

[m1469]

[m1469]

[thalbergmad]

[m1469]

O Morgenstern, by Martha Sullivan.

[pianowolfi]

Lars Vogt live at the Verbier Festival:


https://www.medici.tv/#!/lars-vogt-piano-recital-verbier-festival-2011

♥♥

[pianowolfi]

Angela Hewitt live @Verbier:

https://www.medici.tv/#/home/

Wow she just had a major memory lapse in the opening Bach French Suite. It's amazing how she handled it! As if nothing happened, she continued, absolutely confidently!

C-minor French Suite! Ahh it's soooo beautiful!!! *melts*  

"When I was a kid I dreamt of being in a musical because I loved to sing and dance. Perhaps that's why I'm so preoccupied with making the piano do the same. Music is mostly song and dance anyway"
Angela Hewitt

"If you want to experience the angst of an artist, if you want temperament and vicarious high-octane living, it ain’t there. But if you want the sheer joy of human creation and recreation, then go to a piano recital by Angela Hewitt. From the moment she steps sprightly on stage—the walk of the dancer she was in a former incarnation—you know that the hum of happiness is going to be there, in and through everything she plays."
Hilary French, The Times

Brahms Händel Variations. I feel overwhelmed by so much beauty! It's the second time that I "attend" a live concert online, in this way, and it's a very touching experience, just like the one with Lars Vogt! In this live stream you feel sometimes so much closer to the artist than if you attend a concert in person. It feels like sometimes I can literally smell her hands...   And I can tell you it's not at all a bad smell!

Well, I mean, what does Brahms do with us in this work!...a climax beyond the climax...that's just incredible...!

Encore...Bach..*listens*

Magic of the heart

I am just so grateful!

[Bob]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante

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Mozart - Requiem

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[ted]

Havergal Brian, symphonies 20 and 25. The strange, highly individual, disturbing power of this man's music continues to impress me. It's as if he is wandering desperately through a huge, forbidding building of rooms of memories, finding neither goal nor comfort. To think these amazing, eldritch, visionary landscapes of the mind were conceived by a man in his eighties and nineties, living quietly in a pensioner flat by the sea. It should give us all hope.

[jollisg]

Chopin's Ballade no 1, played by Krystian Zimerman. That's one of the best recordings on Spotify, I think

[pianowolfi]

Havergal Brian, symphonies 20 and 25. The strange, highly individual, disturbing power of this man's music continues to impress me. It's as if he is wandering desperately through a huge, forbidding building of rooms of memories, finding neither goal nor comfort. To think these amazing, eldritch, visionary landscapes of the mind were conceived by a man in his eighties and nineties, living quietly in a pensioner flat by the sea. It should give us all hope.

That sounds fascinating. Thank you for posting

[ted]

There is an excellent three part film about him on youtube, "The Unknown Warrior", in which, well into his nineties, he discusses his music. The link to the first is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7_wiFeDIU&playnext=1&list=PL78C50C5896690686

His music doesn't appeal to everybody but he was certainly one of a kind in music.

[m1469]

haha ... don't hate me, but I found this just this morning, and I think it's kind of funny not just as a parody of Cecilia (who I DO like), but also regarding opera singers in general :

Parody (this singer is male, btw!).  You really should watch full screen:

Original:

[alessandro]

Fine thread indeed.

Right now I'm listening to nothing, I'm just hearing myself typing.

It's very 'refreshing' to see all this links.   So I hope to be back with something that I 'really' was listening to 'right now', but just wanted to share this music, for three reasons.  There is a little burst of enthusiasm for Richter, which I'm also glad to share.   I see the Abegg Variations in m1469's repertoire section.   And, it's an excerpt that is also on of my "top five" CD's - which-CD-would-you-take-with-you-on-an-island - the "In Memoriam", Sviatoslav Richter, Deutsche Grammophon.

Very warm greatings to you all.  (It is supposed to be the season of Summer here, but it is cold and it hasn't stopped raining since the beginning of July - an excellent time for a thread like this).

x

[qpalqpal]

So original, and gave me better understanding of Brahms, which I am not (YET) fond of.

[m1469]

I see the Abegg Variations in m1469's repertoire section.

Yeah!  Maybe one day I'll have a video to post of it .  I like the link you've given .

Here's what I'm listening to right now:

Whaaaa

[Bob]

Um... My Little Gangsta Pony?     It was there so I clicked on it .

[essynia]

If I Die Young - The Band Perry.

[Bob]

[m1469]

Well, I'm looking through YouTubes of different choirs and just found this, here, which I think is really cool though my choir will not be doing this (or anything like it, probably), anytime soon:

[williampiano]

Mahler Symphony no. 7

[pianowolfi]

Hmm that Picardy third at the end...you know....just a tiny bit higher, perhaps... 

[ted]

I am watching and listening to a DVD of Joplin's Treemonisha (Houston 1977). I usually dislike opera but this one always moves me on a very deep level; I haven't the faintest idea why. It still annoys me that a fully professional, high quality movie of this magnificent work was apparently never made.

[tb230]

I was looking through youtube for anything Schubert and found this one:

The music is gorgeous but I think the video maybe a little bit cheesy  .

[zeusje]

[ethure]

THIS!

I'm new to the piano wolrd and heard the name and tried to find some videos of her and got this one.. and wow, simply wow!!!! I've been hearing poeple say piano is the king of all instruments and I finally understood why!

[m1469]

[ethure]

The Last Waltz