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Gary
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From A Buick 6
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Jul 15, 2015 - 07:40pm PT
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selfish, you like those Russkies! Tatiana is a favorite of mine, too. Her Bach is very good, interesting, even if she can get a little heavy on the pedal. This partita is nice, but a bit on the romantic side. Variety is the spice of life, eh?
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I bet John E has played the Diabelli Variations?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 15, 2015 - 11:31pm PT
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I bet John E has played the Diabelli Variations?
I have, Gary, but it's been about 40 years since I had them reasonably in hand. I started trying to get them out of my mental deep freeze about a year ago, but sloth took over, so instead I learned a much shorter (and much easier) set of Beethoven variations on "Rule Britannia."
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Jul 16, 2015 - 09:52am PT
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selfish, you like those Russkies!
Yes, I'm somewhat partial to them, thanks to all the trips to the Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall and spending all of my college stipend money at the Melodiya recording store...
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 30, 2015 - 12:51pm PT
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Diabelli variations.... always felt far more mysterious to me than op. 111..
For some reason, I'm unable to edit my earlier post. I've been listening to a recording of Richter playing the Diabelli Variations while commuting the last few days. I need to figure out a way to post that up given my primitive computer equipment. It's pure Richter, and wonderful. That said, I can only concur with Anton Rubinstein's comment that humanity didn't deserve the Arietto of Op. 111.
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Jul 30, 2015 - 02:51pm PT
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John,
which of Richter's recording were you listening to? I own a CD with a late 1980's version, which I Iove, but I've just discovered a much earlier recording from 1951. For some reason those old 1950-1960s tapes were not readily available in Russia and I'm just discovering the amazing concerts he gave long before he was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union ...
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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the first showing of this piece
occurred in berlin in 1824.
by then beethoven was deaf,
though he insisted that he conduct
the opening performance.
the hall manager agreed,
but assigned a phantom composer
to stand beside the master.
the symphony delivered astoundded the audience,
and throughout, beethoven
wildly waved his conducting hands to the music
in his head, which was not quite consistently
timed with the music performed.
so much so that when the show ended
and the audience rocketed from their
seats to standing ovation,
beethoven, eyes closed and hands still
wildly flailing, continued to conduct.
the lead contralto, she
approached ludwig and respectfully
tapped his shoulder, then
turned beethoven to face
his audience.
he then knew of his gift to the world,
-paraphrased from
john suchet's "beethoven, the man revealed"
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 12, 2015 - 05:40am PT
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legend has it that beethoven
courted one Therese,
about who he was madly passionate.
he took her on as his student
of piano, which was odd,
because he detested teaching.
but when you're trying to
earn a piece, i guess the
situation warrants unconventional means.
so he begins lessons with therese
and realizes that's she shite at
the piano.
so he does what he did so many times
before and later,
he composes a lick of notes
honoring therese,
and dedicates it to her.
but he has to "dumb it down"
so that she can actually play it.
and that is how we get
"fur elise"
(it is uncertain to biographers
just exactly why therese was changed to elise)
oh and by the way
the bitch rejected him!
-paraphrased from
john suchet's "beethoven, the man revealed"
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Karen
Trad climber
Casper, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2015 - 05:42am PT
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Anyone see Joshua Bell last night at the Hollywood Bowl?
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Aug 12, 2015 - 06:08am PT
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Back in the day there were "Oistrakhians" and there were "Polyakians". Unfortunately, for some reason the only way Myron Polyakin is remembered now is as a Heifetz's classmate... Neuhaus, who is playing with Polyakin in the audio below once wrote that you couldn't stop listening to Polyakin even if he was practicing scales and arpeggios
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 25, 2015 - 06:00am PT
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a romance without words[Click to View YouTube Video]
words only complicate
the intrinsic communication of lust.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 26, 2015 - 02:28am PT
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"i am dead to all pleasure.
my true love is gone." - michael bannett
i'm lovin' me.
a good melancholy
diddy.
good morning, suitors of the unlikely.
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