What are you listening to right now?

[visitor]

visitor do you like this guy? ^that was hideous btw

szymanowski is incredible, but i like middle and late more than very early, sort of how like Scriabin very early is too tame for my taste but the middle period transition gets really good, same w Karol. ie this is way more interesting than the super tonal early preludes (though those are pretty, i dont' think it's Karol at his best, thus that Sonata excerpt you posted though pretty, isn't very captivating/attention getting)
this is though

As for above, i only said i was listening to it, i didn't say that it was great , i don't think it's awful but i didn't like it either, i believe recording quality made a difference and the balnce was off, I also think the piano should have been visible to the string players so all could make eye contact and coordinate and fine adjust as needed in performance, i do however love the composer music most of the time, i was just exploring this and it happened to what i was listening to, but certainly would not have said i liked it  

[pencilart3]

Wow! That was cool! I'm in the middle of exploring Szymanowski right now, that's near the top of the list (so far) for me.

[pencilart3]

Oh yes I also meant to ask you what you think of this guy Edward Elgar. He has some very interesting ideas...

< oh yes just close your eyes and listen the video is STUPID!

[rubinsteinmad]

Oh yes I also meant to ask you what you think of this guy Edward Elgar. He has some very interesting ideas...

< oh yes just close your eyes and listen the video is STUPID!

That music was moving.

But, Elgar is a very famous composer. He has composed one of the unofficial anthems of the UK, one of the most famous cello concerti, the Graduation Song, as well as a popular violin piece known as Salut d'amour, in addition to "Nimrod", one of the most famous tunes in England (according to a list by the BBC or something).

Elgar is a very known name.

[pencilart3]

Elgar is a very known name.

So? I thought visitor would like him.

[lhb_]

Da Xenakis unleashes.

[visitor]

So? I thought visitor would like him.

yep. Sir elgar is groovylicious.

[deandeblock]

[pencilart3]

No I'm not joking. These, especially the first one, are really nice! And yes, I played this game a few times, a very, very long time ago (back when I still had time for tomfoolery like that LOL). Then a few days ago I looked for the soundtrack, and I FOUND IT!

[visitor]

[pencilart3]

i agree, though to me it's just middle of the road, a meh so-so piece. i love *heart late liszt (from period where he gets w the clergy and mellows out, from 'Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este and onward)
like this jewel of a piece. sign me up. more please

I love that one! Is this one the right time period / style?

[Bob]

[visitor]

I love that one! Is this one the right time period / style?

Its a bit early a d stylistically dates it self, jusy not quite as daring and fwd thinking.  The best stuff comes to us as he deals with death if loved lones, failed love, his own mortality, etc.   That piece is from the set around yur time the shift starts to transition but it is still reflective of his past and the aesthetic norm of the time...pretty conventional in other words.

Ie see how different it us from this. Which is really revolutionary for the time uf you analyze the harmonic progressions. You hear his despair and struggle in this work

[visitor]

A little tame and doesnt really represent his genius but still pretty, its a bit unfortunate that the rarly etudes get more attention it seems than middle period ones. Op33 gets some play but for broad audience popularity it seems ealy ones are easier for non Szymanowski fans to appreciate

Fast fwd and we see and hear his sound bloom into wonderful new colors. The early ones are attractive and foreshadow what is to come but they are too bound w romantic and Chopin ibspired conventions of 19th century treatment of tonality. Lovely but bit as progressive (similar to what we see with Scriabin and Liszt transitions from early to middle and late periods)

[visitor]

[visitor]

wow, i've read through bits of this when deciding onmy current two etudes from the op 8 set, but didn't know someone had recorded this. awesome piece and don't know of another recording of this. stayed hidden until i set out to specifically look for it

[rubinsteinmad]

This is so beautiful.

[visitor]

This is so beautiful.

Am so glad im  ot the only that thinks so. Lysenkp os so rad
 Take a little tchaikovsky some chopin, a hint of mikuli, sprinkle some bortkiewicz and a dash of liszt.  Thats all the flavors i get in listening to his output. Btw his c sharp minor nocturne will sweep you off your feet

[visitor]

Am so glad im  ot the only that thinks so. Lysenkp os so rad
 Take a little tchaikovsky some chopin, a hint of mikuli, sprinkle some bortkiewicz and a dash of liszt.  Thats all the flavors i get in listening to his output. Btw his c sharp minor nocturne will sweep you off your feet

some might link this, i love it

[lhb_]

[visitor]

glad more Akimenko is being programmed and recorded/uploaded. Love this.

"...Fyodor Yakimenko was Ukrainian - also known as "Akimenko". Studied with Balakirev then at St. Petersburg Conservatory with Liadov, Vitols and Rimsky, graduating in 1914. Later taught Stravinsky composition, and was based in France from 1923 - Paris, then Nice....". some listings may put as "Theodore".  


*ps bonus - dear P3, as 'promised'
 

kindest regards, - the visitor

[rubinsteinmad]

This Concerto is SO BORING...

Its probably one of the greatest American piano concerti, but that's not saying much

[chopinlover01]

This thing is so damn beautiful, I just can't stop listening to it..

[rubinsteinmad]

This thing is so damn beautiful, I just can't stop listening to it..

Me neither. It reminds me of some of Grieg's "Lyric Pieces".

[visitor]

This thing is so damn beautiful, I just can't stop listening to it..

+ 1 the mazurkas are dope. The only std chopin solo works i really enjoy listening to and playing.

Listening to these things again btw her videos rock folks should click i to her channel to listen to the rest of these and other stuff she has up
Her website is slick too

[lhb_]

I love the instrumentation.

[chopinlover01]

Visitor will be proud of me 

[rubinsteinmad]

Visitor will be proud of me 

HA. Here's evidence that your hate of Grieg and Schumann is based on peer pressure. It's kind of needless to say this, but you're TOO gullible.

[chopinlover01]

No, my dislike of them both (and after hearing a different recording of the Grieg today I must say I like it a bit more, but Bobby still is low) comes from me listening to them and falling asleep.

[ahinton]

szymanowski is incredible, but i like middle and late more than very early, sort of how like Scriabin very early is too tame for my taste but the middle period transition gets really good, same w Karol. ie this is way more interesting than the super tonal early preludes (though those are pretty, i dont' think it's Karol at his best, thus that Sonata excerpt you posted though pretty, isn't very captivating/attention getting)
this is though

As for above, i only said i was listening to it, i didn't say that it was great , i don't think it's awful but i didn't like it either, i believe recording quality made a difference and the balnce was off, I also think the piano should have been visible to the string players so all could make eye contact and coordinate and fine adjust as needed in performance, i do however love the composer music most of the time, i was just exploring this and it happened to what i was listening to, but certainly would not have said i liked it  

Fine as the pianist is, Szymanowski's first piano sonata strikes me as impossible to rescue from itself; indeed, it's one the the few real disappointments in an output otherwise studded with many truly great things (not least his other two piano sonatas). One of the great composers of the first half of the last century, without a doubt, but this early sonata is a real let-down as, to a much lesser extent, is also his sonata for violin and piano from around the same time, even when the finest possible case is made for it by Alina Ibragimova.

Best,

Alistair

[visitor]

wish i could have also had a keytar in my band days

[pencilart3]

*ps bonus - dear P3, as 'promised'
 

kindest regards, - the visitor

Hey! I didn't see this! I liked it! I just found it a little boring. It's funny how we find different things boring. As you said, most Chopin pieces "Just don't hold your interest".

< The melodic theme which starts at 0:22 certainly "holds my interest"

[visitor]

[rubinsteinmad]

Wow that video is beautiful

[deandeblock]

Wow I like this a lot. Subtle audio effects on that piano it seems:

[visitor]

superb, EG 's da man!

[pencilart3]

Listen to this guy. Sheesh. @5:17 HOW!?!??! After 5 minutes of pure exhaustion/torture, (and yes he played all 12 of them in a row), but how do you muster up the energy to play those? I mean, jumps, thirds, octaves, etc... for 5 minutes, then THIS?!

[ronde_des_sylphes]

I'd suggest that the passage at 5.17 is one of the easier "virtuoso" parts. In principle it's 5-1 substitution on the way up and 1-5 on the way down (iirc). The jumps preceding are a lot harder.

[iamazombie911]

Listen to this guy. Sheesh. @5:17 HOW!?!??! After 5 minutes of pure exhaustion/torture, (and yes he played all 12 of them in a row), but how do you muster up the energy to play those? I mean, jumps, thirds, octaves, etc... for 5 minutes, then THIS?!

I thought he omitted #6 (or #7, I can't remember) due to time constraints... Doesn't take away from his performance though.

[pencilart3]

I thought he omitted #6 (or #7, I can't remember) due to time constraints... Doesn't take away from his performance though.

Nope. I have the CD they made of his live performance.

[visitor]

[Bob]

A bit too realistic for me.... Yet I can still hear the good stuff in their performance.  And in the audience.

[pencilart3]

Bob, you are at 12,999 posts. Will you please quote me in your 13,000th post?!

[Bob]

Bob, you are at 12,999 posts. Will you please quote me in your 13,000th post?!

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[visitor]

lots and lots and lots of Voříšek

[visitor]

[goldentone]

A thank you to Visitor.

[siveron]

Ludovici Einaudi, always!

[pencilart3]

Ludovici Einaudi, always!

SCREEEECH AHHHH NOOO ACCHASHDFAHSDGAHILWEIUWHASKRUHAKL BARF

[rubinsteinmad]

SCREEEECH AHHHH NOOO ACCHASHDFAHSDGAHILWEIUWHASKRUHAKL BARF

Oh, well, his music is beautiful.

(more beautiful than Szymanowski or Medtner, anyways)