Watch her do it with her playing and and coaching. Uchida has a vision of the best possible execution of this piece and she must pull it into the material world. It sure as hell looks like she is using her super powers to extract perfection from the otherwise merely great musicians, but I think most of the work of a conductor is done in practice, drawing up all the Xs and Os on the chalkboard. That doesn’t seem efficient but the role of the conductor on gameday is a bit of a mystery to me anyway. Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20 – 2001Ī great setting in a beautiful venue and a bit of a novelty, in that Uchida is both playing the piano in this concerto and conducting the other musicians. Have you ever looked at a bar of gold and wanted to eat it? Gould’s tone sounds like what I think an edible gold bar would taste like. I’ve included a version with a brief interview. It’s a video of Gould recording in the studio. I wonder if, when women see a guy play piano like this, they think, “I bet he flicks a mean bean.” In any case, I don’t have much to say about this. What of it? Shiney McShine was a hell of a film.
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Yes, it was because they made a movie about him. Glenn Gould: Bach’s Goldberg Variations – 1981
Also, this is the closest I’ve ever heard somebody come to making an actual buzzing sound when playing this. Did you just say, “if it didn’t want this to happen, it shouldn’t have become a piano and start hanging around concert halls?” Wow. This piano was psychologically traumatized for the rest of its life.
Anyway, the two were friends and Rachmaninoff said, “This is the way I always dreamed my concerto should be played, but I never expected to hear it that way on earth.” Yuja Wang: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of The Bumblebee – 2010įlight Of The Bumblebee is kind of obvious, but it is fun and Yuja Wang completely destroys it. Slash was born twelve years before this video was made. Rachmaninoff was born in 1873, Horowitz in 1903. And it represents a great point of historical continuity. I love the ambiance of the seventies and the fact that a video like this was something special when it was made. I’m doing two Rachmaninoffs but I’m a shred head since I was about twelve, so go suck an egg if you don’t like it. In his this man’s mind, the headline reads “deeply intelligent audience member appreciates Horowitz so much more than others.” An “all about me,” type if I’ve ever seen one. Vladimir Horowitz: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto 3 – 1978įirst off, my entire existence is consumed by a hatred for the man who pops up at :31 and starts applauding like Charles Foster Kane when Horowitz enters the stage. I plan to make a non-piano edition, and maybe I will. So, here’s some stuff I like to watch and listen to before bed. Weird, huh? No matter how good something is, it will soon just seem normal and we’ll desire even more.Īnnnywayyy, I’m pretty dumb at classical music, but I really like listening to it. Even when combined with funny cat videos. But, even though it emerged in our lifetimes, total access to virtuoso performances of the best music compiled over centuries already seems ordinary. Only a couple decades ago, people would have paid thousands to have access to all the music on youtube. For many centuries, hearing musical genius was a special treat for the ultra-privileged. Most people never had the opportunity to hear things like this at all. You know, recorded music is a fairly recent phenomenon. Youtube is one of the greatest examples of our capacity for taking things for granted.
9 Phenomenal Classical Performances On Youtube (piano edition)
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