Pletnev Plays The Sublime Op. 99 No. 1,Bunte Bltter, Albumbltter I. Ziemlich Langsam, Sehr Gesangvoll

Pletnev plays the sublime op. 99 no. 1, Bunte Blätter, Albumblätter I. Ziemlich langsam, sehr gesangvoll

Opus 25

Continuing... you'll have already noted, from the previous post, my tendencies toward speed and a certain violence in the Etudes. Even the slow ones, truth be told. But take it with a grain of salt and the pepper will come later.

Wilhelm Backhaus

Ren Zhang (?!)

Vladimir Ashkenazy (?)

Nelson Freire

Dinu Lipatti

Mikhail Pletnev

Dubravka Tomsic

Lazar Berman

Andrei Gavrilov

Maurizio Pollini (?)

Andrei Gavrilov (!)

Grigory Sokolov

It starts with the Bat. And then the Bat is replaced by the Gryphon. Thus we listen to our private rebroadcast of Live from Lincoln Center with Ax, Perlman, and Ma. I justify this inclusion because there is my piano in the background.

Fascinating texturals. I'm not sure this is its ultimate realization, but fine introduction to a composer unknown to me. I assume the performer is Thomas Bjørnseth, although I could be wrong about this. My applause in any event for decoding a difficult text. (I love the video methodology of following the score, brilliant.)

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SCIARRINO Piano Sonata no.5

Complete playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVL6FopD_E&feature=PlayList&p=EE0742EFCB8874F4&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

Whistling

Has anyone ever scored a work for piano and whistle? It seems the sort of thing Ives or Cowell or even Crumb might gave done but I can find no evidence. Perhaps the sound in my head is one I'll have to realize myself.

84 (and one-half)

Yes, you're right, technically speaking it's not 85, it's 84. Cameron Carpenter is an organist. I'll have more to say about that once we get to talking about op. 10 no. 12, the "Revolutionary".