A collection of some memorable moments in repeated note-playing. This video can also be seen as a hymn of gratitude to Sebastien Erard for inventing the doub…
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With the danger of *repeating* myself, but these compilations are truly
wonderful! Yes, Chopin wrote relatively few pieces with long passages of
repeated notes, apart from opus 10/7 that you mention I can only recall the
coda from the Second Ballade and the Waltz opus 18…
@pianopera Thanks, I am very glad you liked it! And indeed apart from the
pieces you mention I do not recall anything of Chopin which involves
substantial repeated notes (beyond sporadic appearances like the chords in
polonaise op.40 or the expressive ones as in mazurka op.17/4). Here I
decided to leave out op.10/7 and the coda of the second Ballade as they
already appeared in the double notes compilation.
AHHHH…..you have no idea how much i look forward to these compilations!
Again another awesome job by someone with a true knowledge of the piano
literature and its greatest players. These are becoming my favorite YT
music posts. TY!!!
I would like to add that i consider myself to have a quite deep knowledge
of the past masters of the ivories and yet when i watch these i find
absolute gems of the recorded art i never knew of. BRAVO my friend!
Amazing performances!..And yet it was Richter who made me forget completely
about technical part of these compilations and I just started listening to
MUSIC he was playing. Maybe it just me…
Dear Stockhausenis My Cat, I have never lost the sight of Art. And I am
familiar with most of the performances here and have them in my collection
for many years now, so I hardly need “an invitation to original
performances”. Isolation of a technical problem is exactly what I am
expecting from these videos and you provide them admirably. But Richter
made me forget all about “clinical” aspect of them and I stopped reading
music and just immersed myself in his poetry in sound. That’s all.
thanks StockhausenIsMyCat for this very interesting view on repeated notes.
if i may suggest one thing, i would put too the passage of the 2nd rhapsody
by Liszt played with Horowitz. The repeated notes are unique and spakling
too, as the passage of the 2nd movement of the 3rd piano concerto by
Rachmaninov. And the Dohnanyi Concert Etude in F minor Op. 28 No. 6. Kind
regards
@Stockhausenismycat check out Argerich’s double notes in Liszt totentanz
and Cziffra’s glissandi in totentanz, hungarian fantasy and brahms-paganini!
Superb video.
God damn I wish I could play some of these passages like these guys. These
guys are just ridiculous. There really are such things as great pianists.
Erlkonig((: Your hand certainly feels it by the end of that.. lol
An even more amazing rendering of the passage in Scriabins ninth is
Horowitz’s live performance from 1953. (It’s not the famous 1965 Carnegie
Hall recording.)
I would strongly recommend adding this to the collection
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What a great idea for this dimension of advanced piano study. These
historical compilations are fascinating.
this excerpts are so engaging, i feel somewhat dissapointed every time the
music switches…great collection though. thanks a lot
Haha forget it, it’s there 😛
I would have added to the list Dinu Lipatti’s recording of the Ravel
Alborada del Gracioso. It is superior even to Richter’s, in my opinion.
Inspirational
Beautiful performances, especially Michelangeli playing Ravel’s Ondine. Do
you know which recording this is from?
No disrespect to Mr. Liszt, but what was his point in decorating up Mr.
Wagner’s melody to the Pilgrims’ Chorus in “Tannhauser” in this fashion? I
simply don’t get it. I suppose many people think it’s beautiful. Well, it’s
definitely a lot better than many other things I’ve heard, but I still
don’t understand its purpose. Mr. Bolet’s rendition is very fine, however.
Lolz, alarm clock; haha!!
Umm, no Gershwin? Rhapsody in Blue?
I love all you comparison videos… I might suggest Stephen Hough for
Liszt’s Tarantella… And possibly Hamelin, especially his live performance
at Merkin Hall. Also Hough for the Moszkowski?
Why isn’t this referred to as tremolo?
Oh yes!! I was searching these videos for two years, and today I’ve found
them!! I’m so happy! These collection of memorable parts from classical
music because of their difficulty are one of the most interesting videos on
YouTube!