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Post by Doc on Dec 2, 2008 2:15:00 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Dec 9, 2008 4:39:25 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEt93DGLUi4This is an excerpt from a piano work entitled Opus Clavicembalisticum by composer last named Sorabji. As I understand it, this work is around 485 pages in length, and requires 4 hours to listen to or perform. I admire it in some ways, I even like it--in excerpts. I do not think I could actively listen to it all; sorry I guess I am not that evolved! It's just so much to hear and not enough consonance for me. I can take it is doses, though. Here is another section of the work, the first cadenza, or elaborate solo "show-off" part, played by a MIDI keyboard set-up. It sounds pretty realistic in part, though the give away is the splendid ease in which the semi-demi-hemi quavers unfurl like thousands of grapes dropping at your feet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=82iMCEfGOCUInteresting, yes? Yep, its a wee bit "busy."Like music of the spheres collides with jazz in a neutrino collider and got the swing knocked out of it. Ah, yes, 20th century classical music. Just thought I would share this corner of the piano world today. I'll have something different tomorrow.
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Post by Doc on Dec 9, 2008 22:11:44 GMT -5
Here is an example of a modern, 20th century piano piece. The composer is Sciarrino. Really, for my money, this is a lot of unintelligible banging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6jltHiGXKM&feature=relatedDon't go there and criticize it; the modern art police will castigate and mock you for ding so. Well, actually, I didn't see too much of that at this posting, but soon I will post a couple with on going flame battles between those who love this stuff, and those who don't. Actually, as I listen to it I find myself growing irritated and wish that I could put a stop to his vicious abuse of that piano, and my ears! But then, I guess that is selfish on my part. I am not "evolved" enough to appreciate this kind of horrific silliness. Why notate all this shit out? Anyone with a strong solar plexus, hands, routine coordination, and a lot of energy and perhaps anger, could ad lib the "choreography" of this crap, splash the keys randomly, and get the exact same effect without wasting the ink and paper needed to preserve this "music" for posterity. Or posteriority. Whichever is more of a behind. THis fellow should have his piano license taken away. Don't touch my Yamaha! |
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Post by c on Dec 12, 2008 10:03:46 GMT -5
first post (nervous, nervous)
But that last one had me laughing so hysterically
I just had to break away from lurkdom to thank you
for posting that.
LoL.
I always thought it was too late for me to learn to play
but after watching that I'm beginning to think that maybe
there's a chance I already know how.
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Post by ramone on Dec 12, 2008 12:14:19 GMT -5
He's no Jim Ignatowski, I can tell ya that.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 12, 2008 22:02:49 GMT -5
He's no Jim Ignatowski, I can tell ya that. Hah, great episode! LOL moment: "I must have taken piano lessons!" What a train wreck that video clip. I watched the whole thing..  |
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Post by Doc on Dec 18, 2008 1:04:53 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUiN4zrRf8&feature=relatedA big MIDI composition, with literally fistfulls of notes played at a clip that only a computer could reliably achieve. Kinda funny, kinda scary, kinda awful. And makes a piano player feel a little insecure..........
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Post by eyesbleed on Dec 18, 2008 8:00:57 GMT -5
What... you mean you can't play that Doc? here's something for your enjoyment. A little John Cale on piano. He also plays some mean guitar & currently has an amazing touring band doing stuff from all stages of his career. Their live cd from last year is one of the best live cd's I've ever bought. But this is just Cale at the piano..... enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAmQL1zkWM |
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Post by Doc on Dec 19, 2008 1:08:02 GMT -5
What... you mean you can't play that Doc? here's something for your enjoyment. A little John Cale on piano. He also plays some mean guitar & currently has an amazing touring band doing stuff from all stages of his career. Their live cd from last year is one of the best live cd's I've ever bought. But this is just Cale at the piano..... enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAmQL1zkWMI have heard his name a bunch but didn't know his music---thanks for introducing me to him! I love what he does! Good composer. I'll be scouring the net for his stuff y'all. |
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Post by Doc on Dec 19, 2008 1:19:07 GMT -5
I love this piece, and I love this pianist! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLHU2ES51uwMarc André Hamlin, playing the Concert Etude in Db-major by Franz Liszt, "Un Sospiro." I have been listening to Mr. Hamlin on Youtube, and I am about to download some things by him from emusic, but I think that he is like, one of the best, cleanest, most musically conscientious of the current roster of world class concert level pianists. There seems to be nothing beyond him technically; and his musicianship at every turn is revelatory, inspiring, and highly nuanced. I give a ginormous thumbs up for this man! |
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Post by Doc on Dec 19, 2008 4:24:03 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Dec 19, 2008 6:00:02 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Dec 19, 2008 6:14:46 GMT -5
first post (nervous, nervous) But that last one had me laughing so hysterically I just had to break away from lurkdom to thank you for posting that. LoL. I always thought it was too late for me to learn to play but after watching that I'm beginning to think that maybe there's a chance I already know how. If you can tickle the tabletop, knock on a door, pound on pizza dough, and twist your wrist freely, there is hope for you. |
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Post by Doc on Dec 26, 2008 2:44:59 GMT -5
Years ago, I had a friend who challenged me to learn, or at least familiarize myself with a great piano work of Franz Liszt's, frankly a rather bombastic creation, entitled "Saint Francis de Paule; Marchant sur les Flots", or, in English, "Saint Francis of Paul, Walking Over the Waves." Well, I decided at last to download the sheet music and give it a listen or 4, I actually got a couple from emusic and listened to some at youtube, but Ilove this adventure in rumblings, waves, and the sound of one man's spirit as he overcomes the sea, walking thru the waves themselves, conquering nature in a sense. Here is Horowitz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=apoxTCHoDcQ&feature=relatedI love him normally, but in this case I find it overplayed and messy in the intense parts. This young lady does a fantastic job, though sadly, her performance was captured by a minicam microphone, but what magnificent control she has over the music! Cecile Licad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZFzN73xHwand Janica Hristove: www.youtube.com/watch?v=THKhth71438 |
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Post by Doc on Dec 26, 2008 3:12:33 GMT -5
When Liszt wrote that piece about St. Francis, he wrote two pieces, a suite, called Due Legende, or Two Legends. The "Walking Thru the Waves" was the second piece, the first one was St Francis Preaching to the Birds. OK, I know, far fetched. Were these mid-Romantic classical music composers on drugs? No, Just VERY fanciful. Lizst could tell some sordid stories from his earlier years, one hears, but he turned grouchy arch-conservative Catholic in his maturity. Any, here is Jeno jando playing a very nice rendition of Francis Lecturing the Birds. Well, again, ir's bad sound and its live and he is playing a shit smaller grand piano, yet he is so musical in the face of all that. Enjoyed this version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwiaby2N44 Although I like Robert Plano's version of both Legende's the best, the Waves and the Birds, I got them from eMusic, can't find him on youtube playing them, but he has the best on these two pieces so far.... |
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Post by Doc on Dec 26, 2008 3:36:12 GMT -5
But, good grief could this man play! Glenn Gould! I even love his "fast" version of the so called "Tempest" Sonate, last movement, by L. Beethoven: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY58Bfjy3kg&feature=relatedGould played so cleanly, so accurately, so precise, with such clarity in lines, melodic contour, harmonic direction, everything, Brilliant, gifted, died too young. |
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Post by Doc on Dec 26, 2008 3:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Jan 3, 2009 20:37:49 GMT -5
I loved this, it made me laugh so hard until my sides split: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb1ZyfZw6r8&feature=relatedI am not ridiculing them; obviously they picked their own title, tehe, but I love the jocular, innocent, animated way in which the trumpet and clarinet go for the golden grrove and they can-not-play-an-ever-livin'-note. Enjoy. Eventually I'll put some comedy of my own up. (With a paper bag over my head, of course. The unknown Doc.........) |
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Post by Doc on Jan 3, 2009 21:15:36 GMT -5
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Post by Doc on Jan 3, 2009 21:29:03 GMT -5
If you are a fan of Creed do NOT watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZLjJy0abf8&feature=relatedThey're fine but somebody did this mash-up substitute audio and it leaves me on the floor in pain, drooling from laughter. I need serious Rx to recover from this one. I am in puddles. |
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