'Anything but piano' listening thread

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As the title says. I don't think we have a non-piano thread, even though this board is supposed to be "anything but piano". Do you listen to much music that isn't related to piano, or are you pretty happy in your piano bubble? Or something in the middle?

To start us off my favourite piece of music not involving the piano is Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe. My favourite recording is Manuel Rosenthal's, he was a student of Ravel so it feels the closest we have to what he wanted:

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And my most recent discovery is Schmitt's ballet La Tragédie de Salomé (apparently one of Stravinsky's inspirations for Rite of Spring). The abridged version of Act 2 is especially good (III. Les enchantements sur la mer onwards)

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Alain is worth a hearing outside of the organ world.

A mixture of brutality and tenderness.

I used to try to wake up congregation playing these pieces.

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I haven't heard much organ music. I'm so used to hearing this kind of sound world on piano that it takes some ear adjustment to hear it on an organ. How did the congregation take it?

Also from the lack of posts I'm guessing people here pretty much only listen to piano music/music that includes a piano.

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How did the congregation take it?

It depends!  I tended to play the above pieces at evensong, which has a more mature small congregation, and they probably appreciated it.

On the other hand, i played this at the end of a Christmas Carol service, with a large congregation, and I overheard some people saying how much they hated it. I gave up ever playing for services again.

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a lot of times I deliberately listen to non piano music, like vocal or strings or chamber music , because i think it improves my piano playing , I figured this out when i was working on a 2nd movt of a mozart sonata , and they are all usually very hard to pull off, i came across kyrie - mozart from mass in c minor , and that made me better at phrasing in piano , so i listen to a lot of non piano music, both for fun and because of the fact that it actually makes me a better musician and pianist .

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On the other hand, i played this at the end of a Christmas Carol service, with a large congregation, and I overheard some people saying how much they hated it. I gave up ever playing for services again.

That wasn't very 'season of goodwill' of them ><

a lot of times I deliberately listen to non piano music, like vocal or strings or chamber music , because i think it improves my piano playing

Absolutely. In all musical periods chamber/orchestral works had more of an influence on keyboard music than vice versa. And in some cases music beyond the classical world- how many people play Debussy but have never heard gamelan, for example?