Atonalitydotnet:

atonalitydotnet:

Jean Barraque: Sonate pour Piano

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

Fred Hersch is a beautiful player. This is an interesting and well-written expo of his recent tribulations, which I very much wish he hadn't had to go through.

Thanks to @concertmarvel for bringing this to my attention.

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.

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!

In piano playing, I do not want to hear (or rather, I do not need to hear) an "ideal" performance however I might define it for myself. What I need is to hear the mind and the making of another, someone of wonder and intelligence and beauty telling me something delightful, painful, astonishing, banal, etc, but not trivial, or trite, or pretentious (except in certain circumstances I cannot quite define), or easy. In this performance by my long-loved Alexis Weissenberg of Schumann, I hear an Arabesque I have not heard before. Is it how I would play it? Is it how I should like to play it? Those are not the right questions.