In A World Of Taylor Swift... Talk About Heterogeny!

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

atonalitydotnet:

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

Exactly what I saw in the Keys, night diving, about 15 years ago... except they were looking straight at me. What does this have to do with piano? Um. Um. Alternating key-like patterns on their bodies?

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atonalitydotnet:

Jean Barraque: Sonate pour Piano

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

komangography:

thepianoblog:

The Compiano is an amazing computer which looks like a piano. It does not play music unless you play your mp3 files on the Compiano and connect it to a speaker however. =/

Awesome!

As promised, here is Mr Szokolay playing that delightful K.9 of Scarlatti. Whether or not it's everything you want it to be, it has some tight dynamic and juice: an enthusiasm for putting the key down into the keybed.

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.