I Like This Brief Biographical Assessment By Stephen Isserlis. I Cannot Say It Represents My Feelings

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

wordsandeggs:

Album cover via Project Thirty-Three.

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

atonalitydotnet:

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

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.

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!