Not only for fans of Battlestar Galactica - I think this piece stands well on its own! McCreary, Passacaglia (piano version from 2010).
Three short pieces by Shostakovich. Comments welcome! Joachim
Chopin op 33 no 4. It is like being at a dance workshop where some things are repeated excessively, some things explode emotionally, some things...
Chopin op. 63 No. 3 in C#-minor, my favourite. Joachim Chopin - Mazurka in C Sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3
As promised: Ture Rangström, Mälarlegender 2 and 3, completing the set. In the second piece we arrive at the noisy and boisterous city and have...
Ture Rangström (1884-1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to...
I'll continue to contribute some Swedish music. Here is one of the most famous (among Swedish pianists) 20th-century pieces: Gunnar de Frumerie's...
Here comes the rest of Book1 of Frösöblomster. In "Congratulations" a boisterous and not always completely coherent party congratulates us very...
Summer has come to Sweden! Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942) was born too late. His idioms are close to Grieg, sometimes embarrassingly so,...
A few weeks ago I heard Andsnes in Stockholm, an all Beethoven program which completely blew me away. He now seems to be touring and if he comes...
http://www.vimeo.com/simonestoll/meer Check the credits at the end! Joachim
No introduction needed here. Some music is famous for a reason. Comments welcome, also on the sound. This recording is unprocessed, should I add...
I am quite satisfied with my piano (Steinway O 1916), but some say I would get a much richer sound if I got new strings. My tuner claims they are...
This is Off the Beaten Track, in fact it may be where No Man Went Before. If you can find another recording of this I would be very intrigued....
The numbering of the Chopin nouvelles etudes is apparently not completely universal. My edition (Paderewski) lists the Ab major etude as the last...
Stephen Hough: Sonata for Piano (broken branches) Prelude (Autumn) - desolato 1:42 – fragile 2:46 - inquieto 3:34 - piangendo 4:18 – immenso...
This spring I posted an initial effort on Stephen Houghs Broken Branches here, and got a (well deserved) response that my playing is a bit dull....
I am not a great fan of minimalism and it appears no one else is around here, but rules have exceptions. I first heard this piece several years...
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough (b. 1961) published his piano sonata ”Broken Branches” in 2011. It consists of sixteen ”small, inconclusive...
Spring is coming to my part of the world! I know this should go a bit faster, and with cleaner trills, but what the heck, spring is here! (A...
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