piano

any recommendations? i want to listen to something that has the piano as the prominent instrument..if not the only one.

Originally posted by trev33
any recommendations? i want to listen to something that has the piano as the prominent instrument..if not the only one.

Mozart, Piano quartets
Brahms: Piano Quintet
Schumann: Piano Quartet and piano quintet
Mozart: Piano concerto #24 in Cminor, #20 in Dminor
Beethoven: Piano concertos#4 and #5
That is if you want classical.

Chopin: preludes and nocturnes.

you can't go wrong with "Glenn Gould- Goldberg Variations"- 32 short piano peices by Bach.

you can google, "Glenn Gould Goldber Variations" and there is a vid of Glenn playing the 32 peices.

Originally posted by trev33
any recommendations? i want to listen to something that has the piano as the prominent instrument..if not the only one.

Hermann Nitsch


Klaviersonate Für Arnulf Rainer

http://www.ubu.com/sound/nitsch.html

Originally posted by trev33
any recommendations? i want to listen to something that has the piano as the prominent instrument..if not the only one.

Peter Erskine Trio. They did 4 albums in the 1990s. The pianist is John Taylor.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

Bobo Stenson Trio.

And, for something a little more adventurous/unpredictable, Paul Bley.

Would I sound like, er, totally uncool if I recommend to the Trev-dude, uh, sumthin' like Richard Clayderman?

I mean, he's like, uh, so cool with those 70s valiant prince haircuts, and the white tux is so, like, uh, disco.

*burps*

Originally posted by trev33
any recommendations? i want to listen to something that has the piano as the prominent instrument..if not the only one.

I heard some Piazzolla tangos featuring piano or a chamber group including a piano on youtube yesterday morning, and I couldn't stop listening until I was keeling over from hunger.

Erik Satie
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel

I've always felt it is an incredible emotional journey to go through all of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, in order, from No. 1 to No. 32. Don't do it all in one day of course, because it takes about 11-12 hours.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Erik Satie
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel

I like Debussy and Ravel; can't say I like Satie though. He's too banal for my tastes.

I would love to read the reasoning behind calling Satie's work banal.

Originally posted by Seitse
I would love to read the reasoning behind calling Satie's work banal.

I'm sure scherzo will deliver the goods.

Originally posted by Seitse
I would love to read the reasoning behind calling Satie's work banal.

Well, when you've heard one, you've heard them all.