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keesan
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response 5 of 10:
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Feb 26 00:10 UTC 2000 |
Mozart's piano music is a delight to play, at least for us nonprofessionals.
People used to play music, not just listen to it.
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md
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response 6 of 10:
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Feb 26 00:29 UTC 2000 |
I love Debussy's piano music, and Ravel's
even more. Ravel is a classy keyboard guy.
Barber fanatic that I am, I love Sam Barber's
piano msic, even the salon parodies. His piano
sonata is wonderful, especially that fugue in
the last movement.
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oddie
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response 7 of 10:
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Feb 26 04:54 UTC 2000 |
resp:4 That's interesting that Stravinsky wrote things out originally for
two pianos before orchestrating it, becuase I *think* (though I could be wrong)
that the final piece on the Rachmaninov cd was first written out for orchestra,
and then arranged for two pianos. Actually, come to think of it I only know
that the orchestral version was premiered before the piano duet, but don't know
in which order they were written.
Were the preludes & fugues of Bach's WTC written only for harpsichord and
similar small keyboards, or did performers also play them on organ?
(For that matter, were they performed in public at all, or were they written
solely as mental exercises for Bach and technical exercises for his students?)
I like Bach's keyboard music, myself, and I think it actually sounds better on
the piano, but that's just because I don't like the sound of the harpsichord
very much. Glenn Gould sometimes performed (& recorded?) Bach on a
"tack-piano," an instrument with small thumbtacks driven into the hammers,
giving a somewhat harpsichord-like sound but with the greater dynamic range of
the piano.
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orinoco
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response 8 of 10:
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Feb 26 20:50 UTC 2000 |
re#5: Oh, I love playing Mozart too. Just keep your scales in decent shape
and you feel like you're going nine million miles an hour. I'd just rather
not listen to them is all :)
"Clavier" literally means "thing with keys," so I guess an organ counts, but
I've only ever heard the word applied to harpsichords and clavichords and
instruments of that sort. Also, organs are much harder to retune than
harpsichords etc., and fewer of them are made, so I wouldn't be surprised to
hear that there weren't all that many organs in well-temperment at the time.
(I don't know much about historical tuning, though, so I may well be wrong).
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coyote
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response 9 of 10:
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Mar 12 05:37 UTC 2000 |
Re #4:
I have a recording of "Les Noces" by Stravinsky. It's probably the most
dissonent piece out of anything by Stravinsky that I've every heard. I'm
really not quite sure whether I like it or not. If you can't find a recording
and still want to hear it, I can loan mine to you.
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dbratman
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response 10 of 10:
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Mar 13 17:49 UTC 2000 |
Mention uptopic of Chopin's tunes. He certainly wrote some beautiful
ones, but they're not what stands out for me in his music, and they
stand out a lot more in arrangements, like "Les Sylphides" (for
orchestra), where different instruments take the different lines and the
tunes aren't drowned in a mass of identical tone color. This is one
reason I like Schumann, who uses the piano in a massive single way
without the heaviness of Brahms, and Beethoven, whose tunes (when he has
them) stand out. But I don't dislike Chopin: what I dislike is the
heavily inflected playing he usually gets from pianists determined to
give him the full Romantic treatment. It may be less authentic to play
the notes as written, but I sure like it more.
Barber, also mentioned uptopic, is one of my favorite 20th century piano
composers, as is Prokofiev, whose complete sonatas I've just gotten.
Mozart's piano music is fine by me, especially the "Turkish" Sonata (I
forget its K. number), and his concertos are good too. The composer I
otherwise like whose piano music leaves me baffled is Schubert.
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