Of All Schnberg's Magnificent Works, I Can't Help But Love Op. 25 Best. So Marvelous, I Love It As Much

Of all Schönberg's magnificent works, I can't help but love op. 25 best. So marvelous, I love it as much as anything in the world. And Gould's performance is a favorite too, along with Rosen's (good luck finding it).

atonalitydotnet:

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/schoenberg-piano-music-piano/id203939737

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3WSSe3NXOOs1HqyAVSCRoU

Suite op. 25

Complete playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhNcmmMn0A&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA5853D24983…

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Glenn Gould plays Arnold Schönberg

Bechstein upright. Gives you a nice feeling of C major there, even though A major or minor is more logical.

This fellow plays piano the way Charlie Daniels plays violin: until the bow is torn into shreds. I don't know that that's a bad thing, but I don't say it's a good thing either. I suspect this piece is a mess, but I'd like to have heard the feeling of 3 in the 6/8 passages. Structurally it can't cohere because it's rhythmically all over the place. Again, the player, Mr Demenko, has studied it and perhaps has found its best virtue. Novel, but not for me.

boysandbach:

Lyatoshynsky - Concert Etude Rondo (1967)

Borys Demenko, piano

Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968) was a major Ukrainian composer noted for teaching Valentin Silvestrov and founding a Kiev Avant-Garde school later in the 20th-century. His output is prolific and his style, like most of his contemporaries, was chameleon-like due to the shifting aesthetics in the U.S.S.R., from the experimental freedom allowed in the early 1920’s to the restricted idiom demanded in the 40’s and 50’s. Lyatoshynsky studied with Glière and his earliest compositions are primarily solo piano works. While he was aligned with the avant-garde movement of the 1920s, his thematicism and piano-writing suggest the Romanticism of middle Scriabin and Feinberg rather than the complexities and atonal language of Roslavets and Lourié. Larry Sitsky calls Lyatoshynsky the “Passionate Slav” and the appellation is fitting as these fiery and lyrical piano works demonstrate.

The beauty of stewardship.

fantasyofawanderer:

classicalliterature:

The Steinway Hall in London was opened in 1875 and became the first Steinway Hall in Europe. It has showrooms as well as several practice rooms available for musicians of all ages. The “piano bank” at London’s Steinway Hall consists mostly of Hamburg Steinways, and also has a few New York Steinways D-274, in order to satisfy a greater range of performing artists.

Wow!

Piano players! Worry no more about carpal or repetitive stress injuries! The future will give you an arm, forearm, and fingers to practice 24 hours a day if you've got the stamina for it!

fastcompany:

As part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) new priority program for breakthrough technology in medicine, a mind-controlled prosthetic arm may be on the market in a few years. Seriously crazy. Just check out the video above and read the details below:

The arm, which was developed at a cost of over $100 million by DARPA and Johns Hopkins University over the past five years, is controlled by a microchip in the brain. The microchip records neuron activity and decodes the signals to activate motor neurons that control the prosthetic.

DARPA’s prosthetic works much like a regular arm, with the ability to bend, rotate, and twist in 27 different ways. It is designed to restore almost complete hand and finger function to patients dealing with spinal cord injury, stroke, or amputation.

Now that the arm has been expedited through the FDA’s program, Johns Hopkins will implant its microchips in five patients and monitor them for a year. There are few safety concerns, but the university anticipates issues with maintaining chip quality over time, according to the Los Angeles Times. If all goes well, the arm could be on the market in just four to five years.

We’re almost scared. Didn’t anyone see Matrix 2: Neo Returns? Machines will be our downfall.

Mistress... how mysterious. She does look somewhat post-flagrante.

oldbookillustrations:

Mistress W. G.

Paul Gavarni, from Daumier and Gavarni, by Henri Frantz and Octave Uzanne, London, Paris, New York, 1904.