Pianophilia

The devil plays the piano too — not only the violin …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsGSMze_6Q

Yuja Wang performs Strauss-Cziffra : Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5lf_NxVjQ

Mussorgsky-Khudolei "Boris Godunov"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HlieZVXD0

Prokofiev transcribed by Prokofiev and performed by Evgeny Kissin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asWU3OzOrK8

Tchaikovsky-Roberts : Overture 1812
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRNlF4zuvc

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sergei Kursanov : Grande Fantasie on Scheherazade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnjM3wkGz4

Bach-Samaroff : Little Fugue in G Minor BWV 578
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVYKeWDL7XA

Beethoven-Rubinstein Turkish March
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t7Y3VTD480k

Konstantine Tchernov's transcriptions for Modeste Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain".
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X0-WjPyY9gY

Nikolai Tokarev perfoms Montageus & Capulets
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EYbdEUOvByQ

Wanger-Blackford : Ride of the Valkyries (8 Pianos - 16 hands)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQd2pse-psU

Liszt/Cameron : Hunneschlacht
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DbAA1J11fe4

Horowitz Carman Fantasie, performed by Arcadi Volodos, Evgent Kissin & Yuja Wang
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5JgjCdroPQc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9YewbkNLzCg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0MiyBuHciY0

Sousa-Gould : Stars and Stripes Forver (8 Pianos - 16 hands)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-p3LjzccT80

Vivaldi-Economou (4 Pianos - 8 hands)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5hR8ojqE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYpO6M-LyY8 Hope it hasn't been posted before.

Marc-André Hamelin - Valse Irritation d'après Nokia (Ringtone Waltz)

a dear friend of mine suggested the below links to a long interview with Horowitz made in 1985 by one of Berlusconi's TVs (!)

the interesting parts are those where VH plays in a hotel room excerpts from unpublished works like Paderewski's Minuetto, something from Aida, the Liszt-Rigoletto quartet and many others

the technique is a disaster but some clips are quite enjoyable

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u57xCWrGutY

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFNUfDNI8A

part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKj_KrdN4Q

part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMPeooqPpM

About a week ago the entire 1963 Raymond Lewenthal WBAI broadcast on Alkan was posted, in 19 parts. The first part is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCOreZjHRg

This is a reminder of how Lewenthal is utterly without peer in today's piano world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj8T7rp8kkg

World first performance of fluid piano.

Tony

Thanks for the notice about the Lewenthal radio (now youtube) program on Alkan. I started listening and was again reminded that Lewenthal had been working on a book about Alkan (reminded by virtue of the fact that L continually refers to it). Does anyone know what became of the book? I don't believe it has ever been published, but I wonder if anyone has done any work on it. I suspect it would make for an interesting read!

alpha wrote:About a week ago the entire 1963 Raymond Lewenthal WBAI broadcast on Alkan was posted, in 19 parts.

I have extracted the audio from these and it may be downloaded from here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y0kujwmnjo2. It is about 104 mByte, fairly large.

Regards
Fred

I wonder whether anyone could help me with a video of Prokofiev in his dacha that was posted a while ago. I'm interested to know whether I remembered correctly that he made an analogy between chess and composition.

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