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Ashish Xiangyi Kumar
Добавлен 5 апр 2007
I upload videos of (classical) music, synchonised with the score. I try to find the best recordings, with a deliberate bias towards post-1990 stuff that isn't too well known. Then I try to say something about the music which will make you like it more. That's basically it!
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Chopin/Glazunov, Franchomme: Etude Op.25 No.7 (Gabetta/Chamayou, Weilerstein/Barnatan)
Sometimes things are just beautiful, you know? You can say a lot about them, but the most salient musical fact is that the first note makes you stop breathing, and when the work ends you’re not sure if you ever let that breath go.
So it is with these two arrangements of Chopin’s 25.7 for Cello and Piano. Most days of the week I like Glazunov’s a little more, but they both work perfectly on their own terms, despite how different they are.
Glazunov changes things up a fair bit - since the cello now takes over the LH the piano gets an entirely new LH, which neatly anticipates the dotted motif you hear in the cello at 1:07 (the first occurrence of the motif is at 0:35). The piano also gets to ...
So it is with these two arrangements of Chopin’s 25.7 for Cello and Piano. Most days of the week I like Glazunov’s a little more, but they both work perfectly on their own terms, despite how different they are.
Glazunov changes things up a fair bit - since the cello now takes over the LH the piano gets an entirely new LH, which neatly anticipates the dotted motif you hear in the cello at 1:07 (the first occurrence of the motif is at 0:35). The piano also gets to ...
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Balakirev: Islamey (Jando, Pogorelich, Kantorow, Gavrilov, Berezovsky)
Просмотров 48 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Islamey is one of those works (like Schumann’s Toccata, or Liszt’s better paraphrases) whose very substantial musical merits tend to be obscured by the virtuosity of its writing. It’s not uncommon to hear people complaining that it’s loud, messy, repetitive, or some unpleasant mixture of these qualities. And there’s a certain logic to this: Islamey employs a very unusual series of textures for ...
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy, Op.80 (Barnatan, Shelley)
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Is this work kitsch as hell? Well, yes. Do its seams show? Well, sometimes. Is it one of the most joyous, life-affirming, indispensable things Beethoven ever wrote? Also yes. There possibly is no other work (Bolero, perhaps?) that illustrates how silly it can be to think of music as ink on a page, or even ideas in the head, because so much of what is in here that looks ordinary (even crude) is ...
Beethoven: Sonata No.2 in A Major, Op.2 No.2 (Korstick, Levit, Pletnev)
Просмотров 185 тыс.Год назад
The general impression of the Op.2 No.2 is that it is a lithe, graceful thing. This belies, however, its radical (even parodic) tendencies. For a start, the sonata is fiendishly difficult. Stock classical-era devices (arpeggios, scales) are pushed here to silly extremes (and lovely effect). The most infamous example is the impossibly-fingered RH descents at mm.84 and 89, but you also have the t...
Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude (Hough, Korstick)
Просмотров 119 тыс.Год назад
Liszt’s Benediction of God in Solitude is a marvel: a tender, luminous testament to Liszt's underappreciated lyric abilities. For flat-out beauty few things match it. It’s also a masterclass in textural writing - just count at all the ways the main theme is decorated: An inner-voice arpeggio underneath a measured trill (right at the beginning); a semi-measured arpeggiated chord with emphasis on...
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Year 2 - Italy, S.161 (Piemontesi, Gorus)
Просмотров 69 тыс.2 года назад
Compared to Year 1, the second book of the Années de pèlerinage is less focused on textural intricacy, more lyrically concentrated - the three Petrarch sonnets, the centerpiece of the set, all contain stunning melodies which integrate harmonic colour in really fun ways. Book II’s works are also considerably more expansive: only one of them can be called a miniature, and this book’s counterpart ...
Chopin: Fantasy in F Minor, Op.49 (Tacchino, Rubinova, Avdeeva)
Просмотров 67 тыс.2 года назад
Possibly the most un-fantasy-like single-movement fantasy ever written. So much of what makes this masterwork tick is essentially anti-spontaneous: large-scale tonal organisation, structured repetition, subtle motivic anticipation. (That said, it’s worth noting Chopin rather made a habit out of gainsaying genre expectations: his Barcarolle isn’t a barcarolle, the Scherzi aren’t even remotely fu...
Alec Sievern: Prelude No.1
Просмотров 64 тыс.2 года назад
Once in a while you come across a work that’s such a absolute and immediate joy to listen that it’d be criminal not to share it: this is one of them. (When I finally got around to listening to the file Alec sent me I think I was only 20 seconds in when I told myself this had to go on the channel.) What’s so great about this prelude? In short: it manages to stuff a huge variety of ideas into jus...
Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann (Pace, Korstick)
Просмотров 62 тыс.2 года назад
A masterclass in thematic transformation from the first book of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage. Texturally, lyrically, and harmonically, there’s so much wonderful stuff going on in here it’s easy to overlook how taut and ingeniously put-together VdO is. In short: a single theme (in minor) gets major-ised, and then its major and minor versions become treated as different themes in a four-part form...
Liszt: Dante Sonata (Nakamatsu, Khozyainov, Korstick)
Просмотров 57 тыс.2 года назад
A stunner of a work. The Dante Sonata is basically a massive set of thematic transformations on two (linked but very different) themes, interleaved within a sonata form. The efficiency of the musical engineering here is insane - all the music here is derived, more or less, from just a chromatic scale and a descending tritone motif, and yet the result is 16 minutes of music which traverses huge ...
Chopin: Barcarolle in F# Major, Op.60 (Volodin, Dong-Hyek Lim, Zayas)
Просмотров 73 тыс.2 года назад
This isn’t a barcarolle. I mean, sure, it’s in the name, but if you’ve actually listened to this and thought, “What a lovely Venetian gondola-song,” you’re insane. The Op.60 is really Chopin’s 5th Ballade - and it probably ranks alongside the Op.52. (I know only one water-based description of this work that doesn’t reduce it to kitsch, from Iwaszkiewicz: “We walk on water into nothingness.”) Th...
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Year 1 - Switzerland, S.160 (Pace, Piemontesi)
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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Year 1 - Switzerland, S.160 (Pace, Piemontesi)
Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Op.35 (Kikuchi, Katsaris)
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Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Op.35 (Kikuchi, Katsaris)
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61 in Ab Major (Yoshihiro Kondo, Kate Liu, Leonskaja)
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Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61 in Ab Major (Yoshihiro Kondo, Kate Liu, Leonskaja)
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28 (Pogorelich)
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Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28 (Pogorelich)
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Tharaud)
Просмотров 194 тыс.3 года назад
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Tharaud)
Liszt/Gounod: Waltz from the Opera Faust (Leschenko, Thibaudet)
Просмотров 92 тыс.3 года назад
Liszt/Gounod: Waltz from the Opera Faust (Leschenko, Thibaudet)
Stravinsky-Agosti - Three Movements from The Firebird (Rana)
Просмотров 107 тыс.3 года назад
Stravinsky-Agosti - Three Movements from The Firebird (Rana)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in Cm, Op.37 (Argerich)
Просмотров 493 тыс.4 года назад
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in Cm, Op.37 (Argerich)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in Cm, Op.37 (Minnaar)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in Cm, Op.37 (Minnaar)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb. Op.19 (Helmchen)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb. Op.19 (Helmchen)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb, Op.19 (Schwizgebel)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb, Op.19 (Schwizgebel)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58 (Minnaar)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58 (Minnaar)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op.15 (Anderszewski)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op.15 (Anderszewski)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op.15 (Brendel)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op.15 (Brendel)
....in my heart.
Preciosista sin límites.. graxieee SIEMPRE MAESTRO..
Elgar included the main theme of this Nocturne in his orchestral prelude "Polonia" Op 76 written in 1915. I suspect he liked everything about it, the tentative melody and the fact it is in g minor, his favourite key.
The principally theme is like The Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement principally theme!
Schoenberg had to be such a genius, the rythmes are so catchy and original and it makes (along with the structure) the pieces good and not sounding like a total mishmash, even despite using dodecaphony!
Так много рекламы😢
Siirala plays this piece with incredible drama, definitely does justice to it
8:24 Goosebumps
29:01 Romantic Climax 30:57
Sean botkin is still the best
블레하츠의 전주곡은 32분음표와16분음표의 구분이 명확히 되지 않아 긴장감이 떨어지고 급하게 들립니다. 건반 컨트롤 능력이 굉장히 뛰어난 피아니스트인데 왜 저렇게 어설프게 트릴처리를 했는지 모르겠네요.
New to piano, what would that pattern at 2:40 to 3:00 be called? It’s so beautiful
Is it just me or is it a truly double reference? In the second theme of the last movement there is a descending fifth, which can be considered the "Clara" motif. But at the same time it can also be considered a descending fourth as well and it's exactly the same descending fourth (moving down from G to D, with the prolonged G) which is primarily used in the first movement. Also, the second theme in the rondo repeats thrice just like the first theme of the first movement (that opens the piece). Honestly, though, I prefer the original finale to the rewritten one.
Hi Ashish. Could you do an analysis on Schumann's humoreske?
The first movement is my daily mood. At the edge of insanity. It describes perfectly the feeling of having 36 missing assignments.
I can't get enough
24:32
Not sure if it's a coincidence, but the section of first key change from F minor to F major in the finale starts with F-A-E and the beginning melody is exactly the same as that of the slow movement of the FAE Sonata that he had worked with Schumann and Dietrich. Both composition were worked on at similar time as well.
I hear him vocalizing?
What I find interesting about this is sonata is why Beethoven preferred F sharp over G flat major. G flat major has the same number of flats, but you wouldn’t need double sharps because everything would be naturals instead.
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Grosvenor and Rana have set new standards for the Chopin scherzos. They have digested the golden age style and with the aid their sonic engineers have raised their iterations to heights of perfection that mat be unprecedented.
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25:09
La idea armónica que se subscribe de las notas si b - la - do - si ¤, es de una indefinitud tonal. Ésto es aprovechado por Lizst, compositor a caballo entre el romanticismo puro y el postromanticismo. Los choques disonantes, no es más que la prolongación de las disonancias que tienen las notas desnudas. Momentos + grandiosos + líricos, y todo el saber hacer de un compositor que ha sabido encontrar un buen filón para desarrollar su arte en 4 notas guerreras. 😅 ❤ 🎉
Thankyou
22:18 This section is my favorite moment in Beethoven’s early sonatas
Thank you for this wonderful score-video. I love the score you used. Can you tell me which edition it is?
those chords at 20:00 throw me off and give me chills in a good way
un jeu beaucoup trop "perlé" il faudrait contraster avec des passages liés, ça aurait plus d'allure que cette sorte de boite a musique!
32:16 a cut 😠😠
Muy bien sitio para escuchar obras enteras para piano.
Classical music is one of the greatest wonders ever invented by man ...
06:25 - 2 часть начало 09:53 - тема среднего раздела
The climax is insane at 28:41
12:40 jeopardy?
I strongly prefer the Korstick performance: this is the way I play this piece (or imagine I play it!) - with deeply felt passion. Beethoven wasn't just writing music, he was pouring his heart out!
7:30 is one of my favorite moments
35:01-36:07 Look at the Sheet Music..and listen; it Looks and Sounds like a fairground ride, but the brakes have come off, it is out of control, and you plunge downwards into....
2:00 - 2 этюдичек
Holy spirit 😮😮 😬😬
@7:14 circle of fifths. Also @9:09, @9:36, @9:47, @10:26 (honestly a lot of Contrapuntus 4). Nice scales in C.5 (more lyrical, less chromatic). More circle of fifths @1:08:36 (C.13 also quite lyrical)
Every time I read the description (analysis) I realise how much I don't understand (yet)😂 For instance I know what the interval of a third is, but how do you see that this is a motif here?
Fue tan dificil encontrar este nocturno en youtube, ya que absolutamente todos los resultados de busqeuda apuntaban al op 9 no 2
En estos teléfonos. DESAPRENDEN. 🎶🎶🎶cada quien. pone lo que. NO saben. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
En estos teléfonos. DESAPRENDEN. 🎶🎶🎶cada quien. pone lo que. NO saben. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Transcripción Lizst. ....Nadie más. ❤
Lizst transcripción. 💞🇲🇽México.Carmen.
Así transcripción de Lizst.
Carmen Reyes exelente obra. Lizst.