any other piano enthusiasts out there?

If so, what do you like to listen to/play? Post recordings if you've got them.

I'm currently going through a Chopin phase, trying to learn as many preludes and etudes as I can.

I don't play, but here are some of my favorites.

thelonious monk

bud powell

cecil taylor

jaki byard

andrew hill

elmo hope

herbie hancock

Don't play (although I'd love to) but I've been listening to In a Landscape and Dream by John Cage a lot, both sooo beautiful. Also the Metamorphosis' by Philip Glass, all very epic and cinematic. You heard??

erik satie and everyone who has been inspired by him

i play ragtime by scott joplin the most. easy to pick up and play for me... i've played harder stuff in the past while i was still taking lessons but i'm not that good that i can pick up hard sheet music and just play.. i have satie sheet music, been thinking of buying a satie book... i have a couple drukqs track sheet music... also some music from plays

You can buy sheet music for Drukqs tracks?? (just the piano ones I presume)

I'm sure with some google searching you could find some sheets

  On 9/20/2010 at 2:24 AM, Swerm said:

Don't play (although I'd love to) but I've been listening to In a Landscape and Dream by John Cage a lot, both sooo beautiful. Also the Metamorphosis' by Philip Glass, all very epic and cinematic. You heard??

Mad Rush by Philip Glass is my favorite song to play for people... it's also easily my favorite of his piano songs. By the way, if you like his piano music, you should check out the album Circles, with playing by Arturo Stalteri. It's out of print, but definitely findable on the internet. http://www.discogs.com/Philip-Glass--Arturo-Stalteri-Circles/release/420101

  On 9/20/2010 at 3:00 AM, Swerm said:

You can buy sheet music for Drukqs tracks?? (just the piano ones I presume)

These songs are simple enough to transcribe pretty easily, I remember at one point figuring out how to play Kesson Dalef. I have the sheet music backed up somewhere, if anybody's interested I should be able to dig it up.

i have an emi box set called composers in person that has famous modern composers playing their own works... plenty of piano on there, still digesting

  On 9/20/2010 at 2:26 AM, troon said:

erik satie and everyone who has been inspired by him

If you haven't heard them before, you should look into Gnossiennes 4, 5 and 6. Most people are familiar with 1-3, but 4 and 5 are my favorites. Here is a recording of Aldo Ciccolini playing number 5(at least, I think it's him... Ciccolini's recording of the complete piano music by Satie is outstanding, probably the best I've heard... it's also readily available and cheap).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohdSIt0Rn_Y&feature=related

there's a website with quality transcriptions of the songs from drukqs...they even have nannou2 arranged as a duet (cute)...anyway i spent some time looking for it but cant find must have been in my old bookmarks...ill look more tomorrow if no one else knows

http://www.aphextwin.nu/news/100581545278392.shtml

avril 14 & kesson daslef

i prefer these versions over the other couple i've come across

  On 9/20/2010 at 2:26 AM, troon said:

erik satie and everyone who has been inspired by him

Yeah I love to play and listen to the piano. I was trying to learn all the Chopin nocturnes, but I just don't have the time to practice what with school getting in the way. And breaking my pinky on my left hand has done nothing to help.

I love playing blues piano, so much fun cause it's so easy just to roam around the blues scale.

I think Arthur Rubinstein has perhaps my favorite recorded performances of the Chopin Nocturnes.

My mom has an enduring love affair with Bach, and I believe that Gould is untouchable here

although of course his performances of Schoenberg are equally outstanding.

The only problem with listening to classical music (and pianists especially I find) is that you have to deal with such pretentious bullshit.

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Gould's playing radiates a sheen of consummate professionalism which really gives this music a big boost. I've been a big Gould fan ever since the BWV 988 re-recording in '81. Before that, I didn't understand any of his work. Too artsy, too intellectual was the 1955 release with an unbalanced emphasis on virtuosity at the expense of immediate emotional expressivity. Here, Gould really comes into his own through his complete mastery of style, technique, vocal release & emotional maturity.

What the fuck.

Anyways, for jazz pianists, I give love to Hancock, Tatum, Monk, Evans, Corea, Zawinul, Shearing, Tyner and more...but I gotta give it all up to Oscar Peterson. He might not be as harmonically creative as some of the above mentioned. But he plays the blues like nobody else. Hot damn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjWuPS0aeE

  On 9/20/2010 at 5:37 AM, homecharlie said:

Mad Rush by Philip Glass is my favorite song to play for people... it's also easily my favorite of his piano songs. By the way, if you like his piano music, you should check out the album Circles, with playing by Arturo Stalteri. It's out of print, but definitely findable on the internet. http://www.discogs.com/Philip-Glass--Arturo-Stalteri-Circles/release/420101

Yes Mad Rush is also lovely, love to be able to play that. Also very cinematic and dramatic. Never listened to Circles...

I've always loved Chucho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCME9tp9Es

The man's fingers are on point.

piano music is the epitome of melody and harmony for me. it is pure

i fucking love it. most that i've learned about music theory has come from listening and reading piano scores.

there are some mindfuckingly good videos on youtube that illustrate this

i think the piano roll is the logical way to view a composition. everything about it is superior to traditional notation, in my opinion. apart from the practicality of knowing the limitations of each instrument

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWY9QmRjBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QOlPerH94

and then (unrelated to thread) if you want the most pure distillation of true musical genius, you have this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4

  On 9/20/2010 at 8:31 PM, vamos scorcho said:

piano music is the epitome of melody and harmony for me. it is pure

 

i fucking love it. most that i've learned about music theory has come from listening and reading piano scores.

 

there are some mindfuckingly good videos on youtube that illustrate this

 

i think the piano roll is the logical way to view a composition. everything about it is superior to traditional notation, in my opinion. apart from the practicality of knowing the limitations of each instrument

 

I'm not a big fan of the piano rolls to be honest... I feel like they're too coarse to do justice to the music the way the score does. Very sharp choice with the Scriabin prelude, though. I'm just putting the finishing touches on learning his etude opus 8 number 12:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXjk7GkCF8

Of course, I can't play it with the flair of Kissin... this is probably my favorite performance of the piece on youtube.

  On 9/20/2010 at 5:49 AM, Scrambled Ears said:

there's a website with quality transcriptions of the songs from drukqs...they even have nannou2 arranged as a duet (cute)...anyway i spent some time looking for it but cant find must have been in my old bookmarks...ill look more tomorrow if no one else knows

http://www.lapsura.com/music/AphexTwin/

That must be what you're talking about.

me and a friend playing schoenberg's 5 orchestral pieces (2 piano arrangement by webern) in july. Crappy recording and a bit ragged around the edges, we'll do a proper recording soon hopefully.

http://soundcloud.com/patrick-brennan/bashing-through-some-schoenberg

edit, this isn't the full piece for those who care, cut two slow movements out of the recording

  On 9/20/2010 at 5:44 AM, homecharlie said:

  On 9/20/2010 at 2:26 AM, troon said:

erik satie and everyone who has been inspired by him

 

If you haven't heard them before, you should look into Gnossiennes 4, 5 and 6. Most people are familiar with 1-3, but 4 and 5 are my favorites. Here is a recording of Aldo Ciccolini playing number 5(at least, I think it's him... Ciccolini's recording of the complete piano music by Satie is outstanding, probably the best I've heard... it's also readily available and cheap).

 

Ciccolini is my favorite Satie interpreter as well. And yes, the Gnossiennes series is flipping sublime.

Tchaikovsky's piano works are my favorite. 18 Pieces for Piano being my favorite.

Some performers suck though, so I've been sticking with Michael Ponti.

My favorite song isn't on youtube. It's featured in this beautiful film I made though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHyfUGzjEjA

I'm sorry.