What are you listening to right now?

[visitor]

super nice medley and improv/re arrangement and re harmonization. really wish the score was realized out....

"My Favorite Things", "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Moanin'"

[visitor]

i mean holy freagin katz! 

[Bob]

I'm about a third of the way through now....

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major Op. 22 - Schnabel
Jacky Tran

*Bob is realizing he probably owns this recording....*

[georgey]

Ives Second String Quartet (1907-1913).  Here are notes that Ives wrote in the margins of the score:

“String Quartet for four men – who converse, discuss, argue (in re ‘Politick’), fight, shake hands, shut up  …. And at the end say “enough discussion for us!”

Here is the “Arguments” movement of this work for your listening enjoyment:

[irrational]

Brahms ballades by Michelangeli. I don't think I have heard anyone play them as well as he does. I am inspired to learn them. (Also listening to Perahia Brahms Rhapsodies Op. 79)

[georgey]

Brahms ballades by Michelangeli. I don't think I have heard anyone play them as well as he does. I am inspired to learn them. (Also listening to Perahia Brahms Rhapsodies Op. 79)

I listened to the 5/23/73 live performance Michelangeli did just now.  Great!  Glenn Gould also has a nice recording of them that I like (a little unusual interpretation as often the case with Gould).

The Ballades are among my favorite works of Brahms. I was just reading in my Swafford biography of Brahms where he played these Ballades to Schumann on 1/11/1855 while Schumann was in the asylum.  Schumann entered the asylum on 3/4/1854 and remained there until his death.

“Then, with a welter of feelings, on January 11 Brahms made the journey to Endenich.  There for the first time in nearly a year he sat face to face with the man to whom he owed his fame and his burden.  Schumann was alert and sociable. The two chatted through the afternoon about times old and new.  They tried some piano duets.  Brahms played his Schumann Variations and Four Ballades for the smiling master. After a visit for several hours they walked to Bonn, where Schumann clung to Johannes nearly enough to make him miss his train.”

[Bob]

Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 12, op. 26 - video 1976
ADGO

[Bob]

Beethoven Sonata N° 13 Daniel Barenboim
some oane

[Bob]

Beethoven : Sonata No.14 Op.27 No.2 ("Moonlight") / Valentina Lisitsa
Jonson Lee

[Bob]

Wilhelm Kempff - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 15 in D major, Op 28
Cantus 5

[Bob]

Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nº 15 en Re mayor Opus 28 Pastoral. Daniel Barenboim, piano
Pakito Palote

[Bob]

ASHKENAZY, Beethoven Piano Sonata No.16 in G major, Op.31 - 1
Queen Cure Sky

[visitor]

always expanding my horizons and music awareness and appreciation. Right now quite thrilled at my newest find (to me at least), the ultra groovy and perky Jaroslav Ridky Piano concerto with pianist Frantisek Rauch (who was a really great romatnic interpreter ie chopin  beethoven and the like but i like his treatment of the neoclassical and modernish idiom).

other movements can be linked to from the first mvmnt
 
*although not as giddy there's some similarity to the Ivan Jirko No 3, at least it appears to me at least.

[Bob]

Beethoven - Piano sonata n°17 op.31 n°2 - Richter studio
incontrario motu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._17_(Beethoven)
The Tempest



Past the halfway mark.  Whew....

[Bob]

I could play two (or more) videos at once and get through more recordings that way.... 

Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No.18, Op.31 No.3 (1/2)
newFFL13

Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No.18, Op.31 No.3 (2/2)
newFFL13

[visitor]

[quantum]

This piece is a staple in the organ repertoire.  The video came up in a list of search results, and it quickly became clear there was more to it than the literal title.  I was struck with thoughts of befuddlement and fascination. 

Even without the video part, the interpretation of the piece is rather excellent IMO. 

Wondering what those of you not familiar with the music think of this.

[Bob]

Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor | Daniel Barenboim
OndaCC

[Bob]

Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No.20, Op.49 No.2
newFFL13

[Bob]

Claudio Arrau Beethoven "Waldstein" (Full)
Farookhq17

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"

I. Allegro con brio
II. Introduzione. Adagio molto - attacca
III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Claudio Arrau (1903-1991)

[mjames]

Bloody hell, I have completely fallen in love with Medtner's Op.5. Good freaking music. I'm itching to learn it but I already have other commitments, so I'll start working on it later this year!

[visitor]

[Bob]

Beethoven 22
Kempf

[visitor]

absolutely charming!

[briansaddleback]

well..yesterday, some elegant German.

[Bob]

The sound... of snails! 

[Bob]

Science For Girls - 14 Days 
Gemma Taylor 

[Bob]

Beethoven Sonata N° 23 'Appassionata' Daniel Barenboim
some oane

[chopinlover01]

I have to say, I'm really happy that my random recommendation of listening to all the Beethoven sonatas was so influential.
Perhaps next time you need something to do, I might suggest sending a couple hundred bucks into my personal bank account... 

[Bob]

Down to the last ten...

Glenn Gould - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 24
411nave

[Bob]

Beethoven Piano Sonata 25 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy
zetsuXitachi

[visitor]

alternate performance

has enough schmaltz, pizaz/POP and slavic  oomph to take my like. i love just about everything she plays, and nails 'nostalgia' without being overly sentimental.

[Bob]

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 "Les Adieux" (Pollini) 
The Gold Piano   

[jasonlim9090]

I'm listening to BEETHOVEN- Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major “Waldstein”, Op. 53 right now. Just watched CéDRIC TIBERGHIEN performed last sunday in Singapore. Wonderful!


Cheers,
Jason
www.singaporepianohub.com

[Bob]

Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nº 27 en mi menor Opus 90. Daniel Barenboim, piano
Pakito Palote

[Bob]

28....

[mjames]

I never thought I would say this but I am officially in love with Scriabin. Not just his early pieces, or his mid-period works but his ENTIRE output. I initially found his later works to be extremely unappealing but now I'm enthralled by their unique sound...

My cut off point for "enjoyable Scriabin" used to be the second sonata, then it escalated to the 3rd, then 4th, and for awhile the borderline was his 5th sonata. Now I'm walking the streets humming to his 8th and 9th sonatas...
Crazy freaking monsterpieces.

[ajlongspiano]

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Best,

AJ

[mjames]

Okay, these late sonatas are masterpieces. Wow! I retract my statement about scriabin's 5th being his magnum opus, these sonatas are GLORIOUS and far superior to his earlier works. Just how the heck did it take me so long to fall in love with these works???

[Bob]

Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 B♭ major Op 106 Hammerklavier Alfred Brendel 
Felices Cantus   

[Bob]

So close...

Claudio Arrau Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 (Full)
Farookhq17

[Bob]

Hélène Grimaud - Beethoven - Piano Sonata Nº31 Op110
maxigavilan

[Bob]

Last... one....

Beethoven Sonata N° 32 Daniel Barenboim
some oane

[visitor]

 i simply adore well done 'children's pieces' that really don't have to be for children, but are made such that little hands can play them. doesn't mean they have to be any less lovely, these two are two beautiful little gems.
these are from  a collection of works by Takatomi Nobunaga where each piece has intervals in each hand of a 7th or less....lovely little work. reminds me of Akira Yuyama's similarly styled book  but these have a different feel to them, no less 'magical', no need to talk down to them just because they are young...
 

[chopinlover01]

One word: wow.

Cortot allegedly re-orchestrated this concerto, and while I'm not usually a fan of "improving" on composer's work, I must say that I'm a HUGE fan, especially with Cortot at the piano.

[pazzi]

welcome to the club mjames

[visitor]

one minute and change of pure happy    (if it sounds similar to stuff i've mentioned in the past it's because it's also by Yuyama, love just about everything he penned for piano)

[minor9th]

Electrifying performances of Schumann's Sonata No. 3 and Scriabin's Sonata No.5 from 1976. Although these unedited performances have a few wrong notes, they are so much more visceral than the emaciated, edited ones that RCA released on LP ages ago. Better sound on this new release, too.

[Bob]

When's Thals birthday?  Haha.


Here we go...

Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major (1970)
bravo0910

[irrational]

Really learning to love Medtner more and more.
So nice to see a concerto's score as well.
Piano Concerto 2 Op.50 - c minor.