Let's talk music, no genre boundaries


This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.

 

audio-b-dog

Mozart lacrimosa as you never heard it by Maria Yudina the pianist saint  whom Stalin did not kill because she played like angel and did not fear Stalin at all : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVP6uWKBMbk&list=RDcVP6uWKBMbk&start_radio=1

 The last piece of Music Stalin was listening , the gramophone still on the piece when he was found dead was a Mozart piece by Yudina Stalin ask for a recording the same day he listen the live performance at the radio and he died listening to her, the only one who without fear accused him of "great sins" to his face  : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riRK7P_ynfc&list=RDriRK7P_ynfc&start_radio=1

 

This concerto of Mozart the 20th is my prefered one since 50 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3HCVVajKU&list=RDriRK7P_ynfc&index=3

A not well known Genius able to play Scriabin :

Alexey Sultanov died at 35 American citizen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77SEOjA7Vw&list=RDa77SEOjA7Vw&start_radio=1

 

To play Scriabin the pianist must enter in a musical time dimension which cannot be physically and linearly measured... All ideas for Scriabin cames down from this dimension ...

@mahgister 

That Yudina performance of Lacrimosa is very intense!!!  Perhaps I’m shallow but I don’t find listening to that particularly enjoyable. But then I'm admittedly not an experienced Classical music listener. I'm just reacting to how it feels energetically.  

On the other hand, I enjoyed the Sultanov performance and listened to more of them on youtube. 

 

You are right for sure!

Yudina like Sofronitsky is pure spiritual power...

You cannot  enjoy an erupting volcano...

You can only learn how to deal with his eruption...

Spiritual interpretation in my experience are too intense to be merely enjoyable...

You cannot listen to his Mozart like listening the magical Murray Perahia or any other magician on repeat just for pleasure...

Yudina lives on another world...you must listen to her in some sacred moment...Then you will understand why a giant like Shostakovitch considered her the greatest pianist he knew not because there is not many great pianists in Russia or in the world but because very few artist touch the spiritual plane or what he called the goal of art...

 

Sultanov gave a truly good Scriabin... I did not even knew him yesterday...A pity he died so young...

I would have bought his Integral piano work of Scriabin ...I did not like much any modern well recorded Scriabin ...I have many...  All the one i like are not well recorded except  Boris Zukhov  a great pianist just under Sofronitsky the truly one god in Scriabin...

 

 

 

@mahgister 

That Yudina performance of Lacrimosa is very intense!!!  Perhaps I’m shallow but I don’t find listening to that particularly enjoyable. But then I’m admittedly not an experienced Classical music listener. I’m just reacting to how it feels energetically.  

On the other hand, I enjoyed the Sultanov performance and listened to more of them on youtube. 

@stuartk 

That Lacrimosa must have been transcribed for the piano. Here is Karl Bohm conducting it. You might like this better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNs2J9U_W4