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13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 5. 04:18
“13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” is a set of new pieces inspired by the aria of the Goldbergs, the piece that is the subject of the original variations themselves. Twelve composers were commissioned to write these solo piano works by the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in 2004, where they were originally played by the pianist Gilbert Kalish. No one variation ex..
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Rudolf Buchbinder Embraces Beethoven and the Art of Live Performances◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 04:50
Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder confirms the Vienna legacy through two powerful Beethoven releases dated year 2011, a DVD/Blu-ray of the Piano Concertos Nos. 1 – 5 with Wiener Philharmoniker and a CD box with the complete 32 Piano Sonatas, both recorded live, in Vienna and Dresden respectively. Often considered being the shining successor of the legendary Viennese-tro..
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Michelangeli’s “Only Other Pianist”: Sergio Fiorentino◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 04:38
“Recently I listened to a pianist on the radio who impressed me very much: Sergio Fiorentino, do you know him?” – Vladimir Horowitz He is the only other pianist, said the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli of Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998). How is it that one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century is still so unknown? Sergio Fiorentino was an except..
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Unique lecture with Garrick Ohlsson; “Why Chopin? and Other Questions”◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 04:23
At University of California, Berkely, The Townsend Center’s Forum on the Humanities and the Public World presents eminent artists, political leaders, writers, and scholars, each representing a unique discipline, viewpoint, and medium. The series brings the humanities into dialogue with the critical issues at play in the public sphere. The Townsend Center at UC Berkeley has a..
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A tribute to legendary Alexis Weissenberg 1929 – 2012◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 04:18
Bulgaria-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg, one of the legendary performers of the twentieth century, died on January 8th in Lugano, Switzerland. He was 82. Alexis Weissenberg passed away after a long illness, people close to his family said. Born in Sofia, the noted Jewish-born, French pianist of Bulgarian birth, Alexis Weissenberg, was taught to play the piano by his mother. S..
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Where is the Remote Control? and a World Record!◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 04:07
"Without music life would be a mistake." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Alek­sey Igudes­man and Hyung-ki Joo are two clas­si­cal musi­cians who have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilar­i­ous the­atri­cal shows, which com­bine com­edy with clas­si­cal music and pop­u­lar cul­ture. Their clips on YouTube, to..
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Dinu Lipatti’s Chopin Waltzes◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 03:53
Dinu Lipatti gave his final recital, which was recorded, on 16 September 1950 in Besançon, France. Despite severe illness, he gave unmatched performances of Bach’s Partita in B flat major, Mozart’s A minor Sonata, Schubert’s G flat major and E flat major Impromptus, and thirteen of Chopin’s 14 Waltzes. He excluded No. 2, which he was too exhausted to play; he offe..
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John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano◆ 추천레코드/┗⌒Pianostreet 2012. 9. 3. 03:47
“Tranquility through austerity” had become Cage’s watchword by the time he composed the Suite for Toy Piano in 1948. His new musical heroes were the master miniaturists Webern and Satie and in his polemical addresses to the students he championed their sense of scale against the “deadening” monumentality of Beethoven. Cage: “As soon as I began to study oriental phi..