I Haven't Bought A Schirmer Text In A Long, Long, LONG Time. (And Have No Intentions. Still, What A Redolence.)

I haven't bought a Schirmer text in a long, long, LONG time. (And have no intentions. Still, what a redolence.)

In a world of Taylor Swift... talk about heterogeny!

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Elliott Carter: Two Diversions, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

A couple of new Henle editions today. My old edition of the Nocturnes (Poland 1951) did not include the posthumous c# minor so there's my excuse.

The interesting Rihm, not often programmed (to my knowledge) in the US. I am unsure of the significance of his piano works in his overall body of work, but worth further exploration.

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iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/no/album/wolfgang-rihm-samtliche-klavierwerke/id339117899

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5bP89P99fQrtVTAsTD39pX

Wolfgang Rihm: Piano works 1966 - 2000

Back in 1963 a wonderful book of music was published: New Music for the Piano, and it covered a tremendous variety of mid-century composers. I first came across, not the book, the recording of all the pieces in the book by the indefatigable champion of living composers: Robert Helps. I found it in my local public library at some point in the 1960s when I was a boy. I checked it out, took it home, played it over and over. I was especially taken by Leo Kraft’s Allegro Giocoso and Ernst Bacon’s The Pig-Town Fling. I’ve since come to love not only those but many other pieces in the book. I ordered the score through a local music store way back then (it took weeks and weeks to arrive) and tried to learn the pieces, though they were a bit too much for my tiny technique of the time. I've since found many, many other wonderful miniatures in this book. I lost my original copy, I do not know how, and the book seems to be out of print. However, of all places, B+N stocked it and at the original price! So here it is back in my paws. Wonderful.

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Jean Barraque: Sonate pour Piano

Complete playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJqQk3mgpYY&feature=PlayList&p=9B7A6357A2E821FA&index=0&playnext=1