A Couple Of New Henle Editions Today. My Old Edition Of The Nocturnes (Poland 1951) Did Not Include The

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.

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.

Possibly my favorite work of Schoenberg's, certainly right up there, and perfection in every way. I didn't altogether appreciate GG's performance when I first heard it 30 yrs ago or so. I was at that time under the spell of Charles Rosen's complete works performances. (And if I still had my copy of that out-of-print gem, I could talk more intelligently about it.) But I like this very much now, to say the least. Irrespective who you listen to, or play it yourself, this is 12-tone's apotheosis. Worth living for.

atonalitydotnet:

Glenn Gould - Schoenberg, suite Op. 25

Complete playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhNcmmMn0A&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA5853D24983FF&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

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.

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.