What are you listening to right now?

[visitor]

great on soooo many levels

[goldentone]

They are c. 1900, so unfortunately, no.

A magnificent collection of etudes.

No. 5

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,31182.0.html

I can't say enough of your playing, Andrew.  It is a pleasure to hear your expression, interpretation, and you top it off with your golden tone.  Do you have any other Liapunov recordings by chance?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Nice to hear! The only other one I've played in public is no.12, but it was a very long time ago. The audio isn't great, and the performance could be better, link below. (The no.5 one, on the other hand, I'm happy with.)

[Bob]

 

[visitor]

'dis
is
dope

[visitor]

Jervis

[georgey]

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[Bob]

[Bob]

[visitor]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[Bob]

[ranjit]

[goldentone]

Nice to hear! The only other one I've played in public is no.12, but it was a very long time ago. The audio isn't great, and the performance could be better, link below. (The no.5 one, on the other hand, I'm happy with.)

Bravo!  Have you considered doing a Liapunov CD?  He could surely use the exposure.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Bravo!  Have you considered doing a Liapunov CD?  He could surely use the exposure.

He could, but thankfully some good youngish pianists have taken up the case. I'm thinking of Florian Noack and Vincenzo Maltempo.

[fftransform]

[goldentone]

Beethoven's 4th Symphony

Barenboim conducting BBC Proms 2012.

[Bob]

I wasn't that impressed.  Yeah, you pay more for a decent grand piano.  The guy and his playing got kind of old too.  I think it was the staring toward the camera.  And tension or something in the playing.

[Bob]

I think once is enough.  Now I'm up to speed again. 

[Bob]

[j_tour]

I wupped Batman's ass.

What else?

Actually in addition to the above masterpiece, I'm listening to Glenn Gould's acoustic piano version of the contrapunctus IX from the AF.  I think there's only the one recording.

Yeah, after the entry of the subject in the bass in about measures...I don't know, about maybe bar 100 or so.  It gets tough to memorize.

And forget about trying to do sustain for the main "Art of Fugue" when the subject comes in in Bb....AFAIC, it just can't be done.

I do think Gould's trick of increasing his tempo as the piece progresses is somewhat effective.  I mean, it's certainly one way to encourage the audience along.  I don't necessarily agree, but I don't have the whole piece in memory so I can't really judge.  It's a long-ass fugue, and it's kind of complicated in its way.

[Bob]

All right.  I found a trending piece of music.  Woo who!   

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-worst-best-day-of-my-life-how-a-song-went-viral-then-suddenly-disappeared-871991/

Looks like the lyrics weren't quite what I thought.  I'm not surprised, but I wasn't really expecting that.  Be warned if you click here (which you will now)! 
https://www.beatgogo.com/lyrics-translation/lil-boom/10147/already-dead-omae-wa-mou
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/lilboom/alreadydead.html

Kind of changes things for that parrot video.

[Bob]

Dang.  They could have just kept it all the same Back to the Future theme, but he went and added the third movie that makes the piece pretty different.  I didn't know what he was doing at first.

[Bob]

I guess this too.  It was next on the list.   

 

[visitor]

ah, that hit the spot

[j_tour]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Night_Session!_Vol._1

Back when Jim Hall wasn't being all artsy and Hampton Hawes still had the balls to play straight bebop.

[visitor]

Costa was a gem, this is so freaking good, this music  is a chilly walk outside at sunset in late november w a hot cup of cider

[ranjit]

[visitor]

Whole thing is so great esp the dueling pianos and stride and swing

[quantum]

[Bob]

[visitor]

Dope

[quantum]

That fugue 

[ranjit]

Three years, and you'll still be hard pressed to find a person who makes better arrangements of popular music than this guy.

[visitor]

This is it chief,  and how many "pros" I had to stop 20 sec in,  so many pianists  use this etude : which is really one of the lyrical  ones, as a chance to blast through it like a race,  this girl get the tempo just right and the articulation everything it's so good

[j_tour]

A propos of nothing, I was just reminded of this tune last evening while chatting with an old school friend online.  I find it not surprising that Chester Thompson kept the signature Hammond organ fills and the general shape of his solo from the studio recording, but his trick of moving a half step up for a bit — i.e., going "outside," then coming back in — during his solo is something I should work on.  It'll be effective on piano as well.  Best used sparingly.  After all, I'm not some funk saxophone player wearing a funny hat playing in some crappy dive.

It's a neat, idiomatic trick, but I never got around to incorporating that in my own playing. 

[goldentone]

This is it chief,  and how many "pros" I had to stop 20 sec in,  so many pianists  use this etude : which is really one of the lyrical  ones, as a chance to blast through it like a race,  this girl get the tempo just right and the articulation everything it's so good

Playing Kapustin slower. . . always good advice.

[Bob]

[visitor]

Playing Kapustin slower. . . always good advice.

hi Goldentone I tend to agree , but it has to be within reason,  there is too slow , and w the Kap,  one needs to try and abstain from romanticizing it too much , Ie excess rubato and tempo expansion and contraction need to be kept in check and subtle if at all!
Ie the Elaine Rodrigues recording , she's a good pianist, well regarded and its earned but her prelude etude , its ,um, well, ...here see for yourself,  not my thing .....

Then there is a place for excitement and super agility and briskness, the no 8 for example , still many a pianist  miss places of great expression , here this guy is awesome there's good videos of him in the competition scene , he's from Belarus. I used to think I had a favorite recording of this one and that I had heard pretty much the best way it could probably be done by a few pianists, then I came across this, and , well here, speaks for itself...esp around 1:41 +  GAH! so good!!!!

[goldentone]

hi Goldentone I tend to agree , but it has to be within reason,  there is too slow , and w the Kap,  one needs to try and abstain from romanticizing it too much , Ie excess rubato and tempo expansion and contraction need to be kept in check and subtle if at all!
Ie the Elaine Rodrigues recording , she's a good pianist, well regarded and its earned but her prelude etude , its ,um, well, ...here see for yourself,  not my thing .....


Then there is a place for excitement and super agility and briskness, the no 8 for example , still many a pianist  miss places of great expression , here this guy is awesome there's good videos of him in the competition scene , he's from Belarus. I used to think I had a favorite recording of this one and that I had heard pretty much the best way it could probably be done by a few pianists, then I came across this, and , well here, speaks for itself...esp around 1:41 +  GAH! so good!!!!

I enjoyed both selections, Vis.  The romanticized Pretude:  I thought she played very well.  Those black sleeves, though.  They even came into her hands.  The gentleman played  most dexterously, yes.  I am no expert on Kapustin as you know but these pieces have warmth, and so if they are characteristic of Kapustin, I can enjoy his music.  I don't see any classical in it, however.  Perhaps one could call his genre refined jazz.

I can imagine playing these at a dinner party. . . A delicious evening of refinement.  If you can associate refinement with Kapustin, then no such evening can carry embarrassment.           

[visitor]

[quantum]

[Bob]

[visitor]

So freaking awesome

[ranjit]

[visitor]

[visitor]

[quantum]

[Bob]

(FULL ALBUM) Scriabin - The complete Mazurkas - Artur PIZARRO
Collins Classics


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Alexander_Scriabin#Piano_works

Moved down to the mazurkas but didn't want to hunt for the first one...

[visitor]

[quantum]