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humanodon  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Classical music Owl thinks you should check out - FRENCH EDITION!

Owl, at some point could you please recommend some piano sonatas?





user-inactivated  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am not Owl, but I've been listening to the Okami Piano Arrangements, and I've really enjoyed them. Hopefully this is a bit like what you're looking for.

humanodon  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not looking for anything in particular, as far as piano sonatas go-- just looking to listen to new things, so thanks!

Owl  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. I don't know how far I'm planning to go with this, and I am on russian composers for the moment (And if you want Piano Sonatas, here's one that I was gonna put in that thread: http://youtu.be/GRvlMz6pBXI), but I've been kicking around the idea of doing recommendations for stuff like concertos, symphonies, ones devoted solely to music with Harps (My favorite instrument) or Harmonicas or Pianos in them and other kinds of recommendations aside from nationalities, which was the first thing I thought of to better organize what would otherwise be an absurdly large list of recommendations that I figure no one would really bother to sift through. So, I probably will do Piano Sonatas. In the meantime, here were a few:

Samuil Feinberg:

http://youtu.be/zheDyAzSVM0

Scriabin:

http://youtu.be/WqmOp_rKRqo

and, keeping in the spirit of the holiday of Halloween, his sixth, which once gave me a nightmare and is a work he refused to play:

http://youtu.be/eOSl4BM0vDo

(There are performances with better audio quality, but I chose this just because the antiquated quality gives this already dark piece a dreamy opaque feeling, and he actually plays it well imo)

Scriabin is right next to Satie in fascinating and oddball composers. I dig him quite a bit.

But that's enough for now before this becomes a kind of preview of the Russian composer thread, heh. I'll definitely do Piano Sonatas though.

humanodon  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome, thanks for the links and context! Looking forward to future installments.