Classical Music for Aficionados
**** One could imagine Rachmaninoff himself playing. **** https://youtu.be/sTUxrPJfpqk https://youtu.be/lRkTOx2WwTU https://youtu.be/ZcG-DnGdWRw https://youtu.be/M8RyWFA7PSY |
Franz Schubert PIANO SONATAS Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Philips 2000 Notes: "The Sonata in A minor, D784, dates from February 1823. It was Schubert's first piece of it's kind for several years, though just three months earlier he had composed his greatest and most important piano work to date--the "Wanderer" Fantasy. The sonata is as different in character from that work as could be imagined, yet the two have an important feature in common: both seem to be conceived without regard for the limitations of the piano." Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 14 in A Minor, D. 784 1. Allegro giusto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8mVi1pKNaY 2. Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoM4Xs_yN9Y 3. Allegro vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq5TJx2XZpQ Cheers |
Franz Schubert PIANO SONATAS Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Philips 2000 Notes: "Among Schubert's sonatas, D850 is the most brilliant and extrovert. Its opening movement is unusually quick for a composer whose tempo indications characteristically include the qualification "moderato". ...It is clear that Schubert intended the piece to be extremely energetic." Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 in D, D.850 1. Allegro vivace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0bk97FuEo 2. Con moto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOE8NOgLlj0 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQg2D6TPJeA 4. Rondo (Allegro moderato) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmG0GxcMuwc Cheers |
And that is why there will never be anyone from our age to equal him because todays people do not want to work hard other than the special instrumentalists we have today. Todays' composers spend days if not months "composing" a five minute piece of tripe and expect to be exalted to the highest levels for it. It's even so bad now that prior to a concert by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra we are "treated to a piece by a leading female computer games composer" yawn. Heaven help us, there is no future for new classical music. |
