"Bread" is a 1930 silent Ukrainian film banned in the USSR by Soviet censors.
It was rediscovered in the 70s and recently, my friend Luke Corradine, an award-winning composer, composed music for it.
This film was premiered in February at the Alborada Classica Music Festival in Granada, by whom it was commissioned. The piano at the premier was played by famed Australian pianist, Duncan Gifford.
Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen, Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson
It's been out since April, but this is only the 2nd time I have listened to it. I must not have been paying attention the first time because this is an outstanding album. 5 stars.
@classicalmusic
Johannes Brahms:
Klaviersonate Nr. 3 f-Moll op. 5
György Kurtág:
"Szálkák" für Klavier op. 6d
Ludwig von Beethoven:
Klaviersonate Nr. 21 C-Dur op. 53 "Waldstein-Sonate"
I never thought I would say this, but Andrew W.K.'s #NPR Tiny Desk Concert is actually very interesting. It is just him and an electric keyboard. Yes, he is not the most talented pianist in the world, but there are some very interesting piano compositions happening here. Some #ExperimentalMusic, Some even #ClassicalMusic, though when he starts sings his playing becomes much more simple. Still, I think you would be surprised, @classicalpiano. I was.
Another album released Friday, also from #DeutscheGrammophon, is Julius Asal's Scriabin – Scarlatti, which seems to have some good reviews, but perhaps I will have to listen to it a couple of times to see it? Asal seems like a competent pianist, yes, but not "uncommon." #piano
As I listen further to Julius Asal's Scriabin – Scarlatti, it really does show potential. I don't think he is there yet, but the potential is there. He should still be an understudy.
Ah, Julius Asal is 27. Much older than he looks. I don't imagine many of the great teachers in Europe are going to take a 27 year old under their wings. He's just been thrown out there like it or not with the skill-set he has now. That perhaps happens too often. Still, he landed a great record deal. Perhaps I am at fault and I just don't hear it.
Well, this is not something I ever thought I'd hear.
#Piano covers of #orchestral / vocal /whatever pieces? Fairly common.
Doing the opposite, orchestrating a piece that was originally written for solo piano, is decidely less so. But this is what happens when a film composer gets his hands on Beethoven.
Italian maker of musical instruments Bartolomeo Cristofori was born #OTD in 1655.
Cristofori's most significant invention, the piano, came about as he sought to develop a new keyboard instrument that could offer a greater dynamic range than the harpsichord. His groundbreaking idea was to create a mechanism where the strings were struck by hammers, allowing the volume of sound to vary with the force applied to the keys, the so called "gravicembalo col piano e forte".