Eduard Kunz performs Scarlatti Sonatas.
A fight with a piano that came near proving disastrous to the greatest of pianists, occurred on shipboard while Paderewski was on his way to New York a short time ago. Paderewski in his state room had a small upright piano on which to practice. It was fastened to the floor by means of bolts. On the opposite side of the room was the bed. In a heavy storm the piano was loosened by the rolling of the vessel. Straight it made for the pianist and crashed into his bed, nearly pinning him to the wall. Paderewski on reaching the floor rushed to the opposite side of the room. Instantly the piano followed, coming at him with great force. He dodged it, but it came at him again, being hurled about in the room by the rolling of the boat. The pianist tried to get out the door, but could not loosen the bolt and he was thus hemmed in with the tumbling piano which threatened to crush him to death at every second. There was nothing to do but wrestle with the instrument. He grasped it as it came toward him again and after lengthy struggle in which he was nearly exhausted, succeeded in binding it to the wall.
(Source: 90scup90sbusseat)
Does anyone know what piece this is?
Anderson & Roe plays arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring - Augurs of Spring (Part 2 of 10)
This is the best thing ever. Muppet(?) singing La Donna e Mobile.
This! This! This!
Anderson & Roe plays arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring - Introduction to Part I
Live (unedited) audio recording of Yehuda Hanani (cello) and Walter Ponce (piano) playing this rarely-heard piece of Chopin, October 17, 2009, in the concert series of Close Encounters With Music in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Rosalyn Tureck performs an aria from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations,
from a 2002 lecture on Bach’s ornamentation for the Taubman Institute in Williamstown, Massachusets a few months before her death.
Schubert
Octet In F, D 803: (II) Adagio
Mozzafiato & L’Archibudelli
MET / Le Comte Ory -
I wonder where some people get complete operas from the Metropolitan opera.
Sandrine Piau sings Felix Mendelssohn’s “Schlafloser Augen Leuchte, trüber Stern”.
Schlafloser Augen Leuchte, trüber Stern,
Dess’ tränengleicher Schein, unendlich fern,
Das Dunkel nicht erhellt, nur mehr es zeigt,
O wie dir ganz des Glück’s Erinn’rung gleicht!
So leuchtet längst vergang’ner Tage Licht:
Es scheint, doch wärmt sein matter Schimmer nicht,
Dem wachen Gram erglänzt die Luftgestallt,
Hell, aber fern, klar, aber ach, wie kalt!
One does not reveal one’s magic tricks..
but I won’t talk to her directly. I know she reads this, so I’ll just passive aggressively post this here.
I dreamt that teebao showed me a card trick. It was incredibly realistic too, as far as dreams go. I chose a card from a deck, then she just picks out 7 cards to create a smaller deck, and…
Devil’s Trill, composed by Giuseppe Tartini, performed by David Oistrakh and Vladimir Yampolsky