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.

I have a Nord too. I confess I like it.

thepianoblog:

I’m sick to death of every band that has a synth player using Nord keyboards. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE! I mean obviously they are good if people use them but it would be nice to see some diversity. At least Enter Shikari used Korgs.

I like this brief biographical assessment by Stephen Isserlis. I cannot say it represents my feelings exactly, as his Schumanning is much more mature, more ripened, than mine, but I'm in enough sympathy with the gist of it as an emotional level.

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.

atonalitydotnet:

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

Balazs Szokolay

Born in 1961, still a young fellow. (What. He's got 50 good years ahead of him!) Quite the competition-monkey, probably hurt his art but he's got some juice in him. His Scarlatti is quite good. I would post it but Tumblr won't let me do more than one a day. So we'll pretend you actually need me to open the audio portal for you and I'll give you a Szokolay Scarlatti sonata tomorrow.

Image Source: Gigamine

In Short: Splash

In short, I think the division of music into good and bad, even perhaps more shockingly into what one likes and what one doesn't like, is a bit of an ass puddle. This isn't to say you cannot or should not have an opinion if you like. Have any opinion you will. But opinions too are a bit of an ass puddle. Wouldn't it be a classic to find something a little more substantial to set one's foot to? These puddles, after all, dry up and blow away so soon, so soon. You didn't like that yesterday, today you might. It changed your life, now you could as like to flush it. I'm not even sure there is a proper way around these matters. Music is a special case. We'll have to speak more about why.