Mining classical music gold.
I’ve been streaming for months now. For some unexplainable reason I’ve been concentrating for the main part on the latest classical releases out there . Quizzically, I have ignored the unlimited access to recorded history that we have in our hands. Heifetz, Horowitz, Reiner, Toscanini, Piatigorsky, Stokowski and countless other twentieth century geniuses are copiously available. I just can’t believe it took me this long to wake up.
I’m writing this for any classical music lovers who, like me, have been blind to the mind-blowing potential afforded us.
Now a new composer genius i will never see mature... I am 75 she is 20...: The Philosophy of Alma Deutscherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHwfvOOSWns
And i regret it deeply to be too old to see the end story of this genius who taught us why beauty exist and cannot go out of fashion as some claim when they taught her otherwise ... An interview revealing more : |
Waltz of sirens by Alma Deutscher : She decided to begin with streets ugly noise and create beauty from it, inversing musical modern history trend and fashion doing so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0xMpLXQNvM&list=RDW0xMpLXQNvM&start_radio=1
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Improvising music from random notes taken from a hat by Alma Deutscher : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezs6S1jq6qs&list=RDEzs6S1jq6qs&start_radio=1
As a personal note, i discovered this genius from Youtube, i used a lot youtube... I dont stream... ....To discover new music i used Youtube mainly ....
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@billsw To add a few more historically significant pianists, to make you life more difficult: William Kapell, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Emil Gilels, Dinu Lipatti. To get a list to last a lifetime Google Wikipedia for Russian Classical Pianists! |
@rvpiano -- thanks for a useful reminder that there’s way more than just "new releases" to consider in classical music. FWIW, it has always been thus. I listen to new recordings and young performers all the time. Sometimes they’re spectacular; many other times they don’t quite measure up to the best of previous generations of interpreters. I always think, "I’ll check back with you in 20-30 years and see what you’ve learned," not that I actually have 20 or 30 years. Since you have "piano" in your screen-name, a related point about piano recordings (there are so many 1000s of them, new interpretations every month). I learned years ago to check out any piece of piano literature that interests me by looking for interpretations by Martha Argerich and/or Michaelangelo Benedetti. Each had their specialties (MB in particular), but in general, these are players who never seemed to have a bad day or a lack of insight about anything they recorded. Much of the time their versions of things just tower over even the best later-generation players. For me, those 2 pianists are a useful starting point to understand an extremely crowded field of piano recordings.... |
