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

@bernadie5317 

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. 

Great pianist may appear as virtuoso but they never die as virtuoso but as great artist...

We must not feel the virtuosity...Only the music expression...

i am stunned...

 Samson Francois playing Scriabin sonata no 3 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GJ-p9GWUBg&list=RD0GJ-p9GWUBg&start_radio=1

 

 

@bernadie5317 

That's what this forum is about. People who love music posting about what they like and how they like music. No thanks necessary. 

@mahgister 

I have a record of 
Samson Francois playing something. I'll have to dig in my record collection and see what I have him playing. I have a "Mind" interface for my moon streamer. I wish I could interrogate my records as easily.

I am posting an album I pull out and play very often. You'll probably all be scratching your heads, like what? Why does he like that? Partly for her poetics. Also I heard it when it first came out on the radio and it's been with me for many years. Nostalgia? Don't know. Just like it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTIb4fKCEAevye8E5UTN8boXbA4RWHcOm