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
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.
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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.... |
@mahgister Sincere thanks for the reference to the Dorati Liszt Christus. I had never heard this magnificent work previously. A glorious recording with wonderful soloists and orchestra. I am now hooked on finding more Liszt. |
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