Interesting about the speaker floating in water. The waves it creates look like record grooves. I'm sure you've all made a paper cone and put a needle through it, then played it on an old beatup record. The paper cone translates the grooves into music, just like speakers receiving an electric signal.
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.
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greetings & kind regards a few random thoughts : taste is a matter of taste . always of interest what others consider pleasing and of quality . when a child i heard Elvis Presly on the house radio the size of a small refrigerator and decided to myself i will never choose to listen to such common music . it seems i was born a snob . it perhaps may be of scientific / psychological / sociological interest to note traditional Japanese music in particular Kabuki is not accepted in West however the opposite is not true as Beethoven etc. are there listened to or so i assume . re/ taste i can not not listen to Chopin Preludes . also first few Chicago albums all day long baby . as for pianists i inquire of @audio-b-dog your thoughts on the incomparable Yuja Wang as you are obviously more knowledgeable than myself . i myself laugh out loud in astonishment at her pyrotechniques . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpnr8dI_50 unfortunately i have attended few live concerts . Beethoven V Chicago Symphony front row seats . Beethoven IX Des Moines Symphony . Cat Stevens balcony seats . Drake University Orchestra balcony seats unfortunately i do not recall piece other than it was Classical . i relate this to note the most enjoyable by far was the Drake University Orchestra performance so much so i stood and shouted "Bravo !" by coincidence one of the violists was a student of another grad student and upon conversation stated re/ prior evenings’ performance "Someone in attendance shouted Bravo." . i confessed to her doing so . it seems to me youthful presentation ore imbued w/ a certain quality also in the visual arts which i are regularly organized and presented near former home in Chicago . cheers |
It is impossible not to admire and love her...
I admire and love her for sure... Once this is said his virtuosity takes all the place and this maybe a problem. I like as much if not more some other pianists which are not so technically gifted... But my observation is not intended to be a critic of her genius, just to remark that virtuosity can put a veil sometimes on the music ... But she is the most talented pianist i heard these last years ...
Music is not about walking fast or slow in the right tracks but about breathing... |
I have seen Yuja Wang live several times and I will see her again soon. I met a violinist in the L.A. Phil the first time I saw her in a short, sexy dress. The violinist said that they don't talk about what piece they're playing when she performs. They talk about what dress she's wearing.He also said that the orchestra had a lot of trouble keeping up with her. Yuja Wang is a petite woman, but she is one of the most powerful pianists I have heard. My impression of her is that her technical brilliance has been what shines when she plays. I have a few of her CDs. One of her playing Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. I like her playing of that. She uses nuance. For now, I like Mitsuko Uchida, Martha Argerich, and some younger pianists, Fazil Say and Igor Levitt more than Yuja Wang. Yet, I think she is young, extremely talented and as she learns to pull back on speed and power and gets more into nuance, she will be as good as the pianists I have mentioned above. I think you might listen to Fazil Say and Igor Levit. They are into deconstructing pieces and putting them back together in very interesting ways. I would recommend listening to Fazil Say's recordings of Mozart's piano sonatas. I compared them to Maria Joao Pires's pristine recordings and it almost had me laughing to listen to how Say has deconstructed those sonatas and plays them so differently than Pires. I also think that Igor Levit has very interesting and modern interpretations of Beethoven's piano sonatas. I heard a live concert of the Phil. with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting with a woman violinist whose name I've forgotten. They played Tchaikovsky's Violin Conceto, and talk about deconstructing! In the places where a violinist like Itzak Perleman would play bold sweet lines, these women played small, almost satiric passages. I came away saying that only women could forgo large sweet passages with small, internal interpretations. I love listening to the new, young performers playing these old, classic pieces. And I will go to watch Yuja Wang perform whenever I get a chance. Now that I mention it, I will stream her and hear recordings I have not heard. Hopefully later recordings. |
Apologies. The above long answer about pianists should have been to you. When I have extra time on my hands, I try to compare pianists playing the same piece. Listening to Schubert's Impromptus, especially D899, is when I realized I like Mitsuko Uchida so much. I have listened to that Impromptu by Alfred Brendel, Andras Schiff, Vladmir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and others, and her fingers seem to possess so much more subtlety on that piece. I do not, however, think that she is best on all pieces. She specializes in Mozart and I have heard pianists I like better than her on certain piano concertos. I think I would recommend Geza Anda as my overall favorite on Mozart's piano concertos. I think that was because he was conducting the orchestra as well as playing piano. I have a recording of Mitsuko Uchida also conducting the orchestra while she plays two Mosart piano cincertos and I liked thos a lot better than when Jeffery Tate conducts while she plays. |
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