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

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

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

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15 years ago

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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14 years ago

atonalitydotnet:

Jean Barraque: Sonate pour Piano

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


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14 years ago

komangography:

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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!

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14 years ago

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.


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14 years ago
Back In 1963 A Wonderful Book Of Music Was Published: New Music For The Piano, And It Covered A Tremendous

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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