Location: Brooklyn &Huntington, NYMusic: Gyorgy Ligeti, Piano Etude 9, played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Wendy O. Williams, Goin' Wild, from Kommander of Kaos (1986) Camera: Canon Powershot SX100 Software: Windows Movie Maker [ More Detail ]
György Ligeti - Piezas para piano a 4 manos. Leandro Avalle, Carlos Britez, piano.Polyphonic Etude -- Allegro Comodo (1943)Three Wedding Dances (1950) 1) The Cart is at the Gate -- Allegro2) Quickly come here pretty -- Andantino3) Circling Dance - Allegro Sonatina (1950) Allegro.Auditorio AMIA. Ensayo para Concierto organizado por Bracha Waldman, dentro del ciclo "Jóvenes en la Clásica" 21 de Agosto de 2008. [ More Detail ]
C'est un morceau très difficile, j'espère que je l'ai joué correctement.Merci Aurélien d'avoir filmé (mais filme mieux que ça au début !!) [ More Detail ]
================================ Chopin Etude No.12 in C minor, Op.10 "Revolutionary"Shura Cherkassky,piano.================================ Related information: Born: October 7, 1909 - OdessaDied: December 17, 1995 - London, EnglandThe remarkable Russian-born American pianist, Shura (Alexander Isaakovich) Cherkassky, began piano training with his mother. While still a child, he was taken by his family to the USA, where he continued his studies with Josef Hofmann at the newly founded Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. After making his debut in Baltimore at the age of 11, he appeared as a soloist with Waiter Damrosch and the New York Symhony Orchestra and performed at the White House in Washington, D.C. in 1923.Shura Cherkassky made his first tour abroad in 1928 with visits to Australia and South Africa. Although he also made a few recordings during the 1920's and 1930's, his career did not really take off until after World War II. By that time, the pianists, like Hofmann, who had learned from the 19th century greats Liszt, Moszkowski, and others, were no longer around. Following a major tour of Europe in 1946, he moved to London. Cherkassky was acknowledged as the heir of that particular school of performance, and just as Franz Liszt and the others had had their own idiosyncrasies, he had his own individual style that seemed to give fresh meaning to everything he played. He toured almost continually around the world during his career, making some time nearly every year to take a holiday in Thailand. He made a successful debut in Russia in 1976 and returned for subsequent tours in 1977 and 1987. He gave many recitals at New York's 92nd Street Y, which honoured him in 1986 with the establishment of the Shura Cherkassky Recital Award to be given annually to a gifted young pianist. On December 2, 1991, he celebrated his 80th year with a recital at New York's Carnegie Hall in a program of works by Schumann, Chopin, Bach-Busoni, Tchaikovsky-Pabst, Josef Hofmann, and well-received encores.As one of the last representatives of the hallowed Romantic school of piano virtuosity, Shura Cherkassky regaled audiences with a bravura technique and singing tone in the grand Russian manner. He combined Romantic sensitivity of touch with the power of a modern player, and he traveled easily between works by the Romantics and those by Ives, Hindemith, Boulez, and Ligeti. This blend of talents served him well, particularly in works such as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.Most of Shura Cherkassky's recordings were made later in his life and cover most of his Romantic repertoire. The best representations of his work can be found on the Decca and Nimbus labels.http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Cherkassky-Shura.htm================================ *Note:Support the artist, their families and their legacy by purchasing their music. [ More Detail ]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H0lyS2krbuw&fmt=18III. FacsarAndante cantabile ed espressivo, with swing IV. Presto con sordinoSo schnell wie möglich Tabea Zimmermann, ViolaAdd &fmt=18 to the end of any youtube video URL in order to obtain a higher audio quality.http://www.amazon.com/Ligeti-Chamber-Music/dp/B00138KOEK/The Sonata for Solo Viola was composed in stages between 1991 and 1994. On the surface it seems to consist of a series of six different character pieces and is - despite its virtuosity - quite simple in form. But one can only "understand" the musical coherence in the context of my other pieces from the same period: the Violin Concerto, the second volume of Piano Études and the Nonsense Madrigals.The first movement is entitled "Hora lungă" and refers to a family of slow, stereotyped melodic formulas and figures which are strung together in the Romanian folk songs from the Maramureş region in the northern Carpathians. The movement does not actually quote any known melody; but its contour makes it rather an honorary member of this family of folk songs. These melodies often make use of a series of overtones, so that they shimmer between Lydian and Mixolydian; this was described by Bartók as an "acoustic scale" or "acoustic mode." In this movement the viola plays only on the wonderful and austere-sounding C-string. [...] Now, nothing could be easier than to play overtones (harmonics) on the C-string [...]. In its place I imagined that the viola had an F-string a fifth lower (which in reality it does not posess), whose fifth, seventh and eleventh overtones would then be the "out-of-tune" natural harmonics in the tempered system. Since the F-string is imaginary I ask the violist to adjust the fingering deliberately to produce the desired deviations in intonation. [...] What I have written about the first movement applies, with appropriate modifications, to the strangeness of the entire Sonata. This music makes sense only on a more abstract, figurative level. One can take the sixth movement literally as a chaconne left over from the Baroque period, complete with lamento bass, but this interpretation is misleading. G. Ligeti, translated by A. McVoy and D. Feurzeig [ More Detail ]
It is a wonderful piano work that G.LIGETI composed in 1991. I think music that represents the 20th century. Please hear it. And, it is glad when reproving it. [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Norderstedt/Germany on 18 March 2008, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Neumünster/Germany on 21 Januar 2008, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
Die Pianistin Birgitta Wollenweber spielt aus "HEBDOMADAIRE op. 62" (52 Stücke vom Jahr) von Michael Denhoff die Nr. 33 "Étude" (hommage à Ligeti). [ More Detail ]
Gyorgy Ligeti's 4th Etude, "Fanfares"Played by Samuel Cormier-Iijima (me)Sorry about the bad sound quality, I don't have any good microphones...My first youtube video :-) [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Brussels/Belgium on 11 May 2007, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Wissembourg/France on 10 September 2006, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
Images of Brancusi's sculpture 'Infinite Column' set to Gyorgy Ligeti's piano etude #14 'Coloana infinita' inspired by Brancusi's sculpture. [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Tromsø/Norway on 25 January 2007, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
Live-Recording in Vercelli/Italy on 12 October 2006, performed by BORIS FEINER, Concert Pianist and Composer. For more details please visit BORISFEINER.COM [ More Detail ]
http://www.andersonpiano.com | Imagine: You're in hell, and you want to get out. Piano Etude No. 13, "The Devil's Staircase" (L'escalier du diable) composed by Gyorgy Ligeti, performed by Greg Anderson. [ More Detail ]