The Galaxy Playlist

October 29, 2007

Some serious piano.....

A program of piano music, by request. (The request was for piano music - I turned the request into a theme).

Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
Frédéric Chopin
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Etude, Op. 10 No. 10 in A-Flat
Classical music, Romantic era, music for solo piano
BMI, 2001
Live recordings from Richter's noted 1960 American tour, the first time he had been allowed to perform in the West.
Etude, Op. 10 No. 12 in C Minor ("Revolutionary")
Mazurka in C, Op. 24 No. 2
Modest Moussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (original version)
Classical, Romantic era, tone poem, music for solo piano
Phillips, 1958
A 1958 live recording, originally issued on a Bulgarian label, and later released by Phillips (date of the Phillips release is unknown). Note the manner in which he allows the massive block chords to resonate during the last section, the section subtitled "Great Gates of Kiev". No wonder there were so many orchestrations of this majestic piece of music
Ludwig van Beethoven
Murray Perehia, piano
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101
Classical music, Romantic era, music for solo piano
Sony Classical, 2004
A new revised edition of the sonata edited by Perehia that corrects some errors in previous publications of the sonata.
Claude Debussy
Phillipe Entremont, piano
Deux Arabesques
Classical music, "Impressionist" era, music for solo piano
Sony Classical , 1959
Composed between 1888 and 1891 (Debussy was 26 when the project was begun)
Franz Schubert
Babette Hierholzer, piano
Twelve German Dances, Op (posthumous) 171
Classical music, Romantic era
Marus, 1995
Discovered and published by Johannes Brahms in 1864, although two of the dances (Numbers 2 and 10) had been published by Schubert in 1825 as part of Op. 33. Although parts were published earlier, they were numbered sequentially in Schubert's own hand and share similar character and tempo traits, and as such are grouped together in this manner.
Maurice Ravel
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano, -w- Myung-Whun Chung, piano
Chants Populaires (Folk Songs)
Classical music, post-Romantic era
Decca/London, 1996
A set of folk songs set in French, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew/Yiddish.
Erik Satie
Reinbert De Leeeuw, piano
Trois Gymnopédies
Classical music, post-Romantic era
Phillips, 1995
 
Petite ouverture a danser

 

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