Classical Music

Roslavec is amazing.

An interesting piece to get lost in.

Yes, the same Tony Banks who's in Genesis and who my mum used to fancy. Is it just confirmation bias or are there Genesissy leitmotifs in there?

same guys doing a master class

Happy birthday to the big fella, Erik Satie

  On 3/27/2024 at 7:04 PM, iococoi said:

same guys doing a master class

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You know Murcofs take on "Death and the Maiden"? Recommended.

stumbled across a really good interpreter/performer of Debussey, Francois-Joel Theollier, album is called Debussey: Claire de lune and Other Piano Favorites on streaming. The hall reverb on the recording is very tasty, and I think it the performances were recorded to magnetic tape, has a nice tape noise throughout. Best recording of Claire de lune I've ever heard:

Harbor we piano rolls ‘round these parts?

e.g. Scriabin plays Scriabin 

Heh nice sudden influx of impressionism music posts over here

Just discovered this collection which is really lovely imo:

Really like the tempo and sound

Played by Cristina Ariagno

Also if you need more music like this to scratch that itch, check out Henrique Oswald, he's right on the money 

  On 10/2/2024 at 2:39 PM, Berk said:

Also if you need more music like this to scratch that itch, check out Henrique Oswald, he's right on the money 

 

 

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Not *huge* on Impressionism over here but this really kicks 

slight deviation from the norm:

Gotta share this Glenn Gould monologue about Bach - skip to 2:10 

  On 10/2/2024 at 3:07 PM, DyeMyBlueBlack said:

slight deviation from the norm:

Gotta share this Glenn Gould monologue about Bach - skip to 2:10 

 

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Nice, I like Gould a lot, especially his recordings of Bach’s Art of Fugue. He also has an album playing 10 intermezzi by Brahms, really good and chill classical vibes on that one.

  On 9/29/2024 at 6:34 PM, decibal cooper said:

stumbled across a really good interpreter/performer of Debussey, Francois-Joel Theollier, album is called Debussey: Claire de lune and Other Piano Favorites on streaming. The hall reverb on the recording is very tasty, and I think it the performances were recorded to magnetic tape, has a nice tape noise throughout. Best recording of Claire de lune I've ever heard:

 

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Really nice sound indeed. 

Walter Gieseking's rendition of Debussy is also very nice imo, the one from Warner Classics 

  On 10/2/2024 at 5:31 PM, decibal cooper said:

Nice, I like Gould a lot, especially his recordings of Bach’s Art of Fugue. He also has an album playing 10 intermezzi by Brahms, really good and chill classical vibes on that one.

Incidentally been checking out some Brahms lately including Intermezzi which are great and make me feel the same as Beethoven bagatelles (ie happy) — played Brahms 3 in my high school orchestra but wasn’t huge on him other than the famous 3rd movement. Gonna have to peep the Gould recordings - wonder if anyone used AI to remove his humming from recordings yet??

He put this bagatelle to paper after the 9th - baroque simplicity in the first section contrasts well against the lullaby second section 

  On 10/4/2024 at 5:45 AM, DyeMyBlueBlack said:

Gonna have to peep the Gould recordings - wonder if anyone used AI to remove his humming from recordings yet??

that bagatelle sounds great. Regarding Gould's humming, I remember first getting into his recordings and reading about people complaining. It definitely is a little annoying sometimes but I don't mind it all that much. He seems to have been a somewhat controversial figure in other ways. I am not well versed enough in classical to know how true this is, but I heard that on some of his recordings he altered the tempo on some famous pieces, slowed them down rather dramatically based on his own interpretations of the compositions.