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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? @Dominic Cheli Hey Dominic hope all is well! I find that my Knabe has a lighter tone than my Mason, particularly in the bass and baritone ranges (the Mason is a monster),…
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? My favorite is Fazioli. I've had the good fortune to perform several times on a Fazioli concert grand, and when I went to the retailer in Manhattan to select the instrument for the events it was…
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Re: What piece of music never fails to make you smile or feel uplifted, and why? @JGILLSON (sorry for double-post!)
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Re: What piece of music never fails to make you smile or feel uplifted, and why? Dona Nobis Pacem from JS Bach's Mass in B Minor. If admission via pearly gates is in fact what might happen if you're well-behaved, this might the first thing that greets you.
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Saw Yunchan Lim play the Goldberg Variations at Carnegie Hall last month. Otherworldly. I last heard them played by Igor Levit in 2015 at a rather eccentric art installation in the Park Avenue Armory…
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Re: Springtime Recital! Is it too late to submit videos of performance? If it's still possible, where should they be sent?
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! @Judy Kuan Sounds great!
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! ...and then last night, at Carnegie, Nobuyyuki Tsujii....as many know, he's 36, blind since birth, swept the international competition scene when younger,…
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olaffson - two piano program at Carnegie Hall/NYC. Berio, Schubert, Cage, Nancarrow, Adams, Part, Rachmaninoff. Every NYC pianist I know seemed to be there!
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- 3 mths ago
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Re: What was the last concert you attended? Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olaffson at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Fantastic two-piano program.
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! Thinking of playing: Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me'" (transcribed from his August 1926 live radio performance) Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind" (transcribed from Oscar Peterson's 1963…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 MAYBE RESURRECT: Ravel - Ondine Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie; Ballades 1 and 4; B minor Sonata, last movement; C# minor Etude Opus 10 #4 Beethoven - Sonatas, Opus 54;…
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Yuja Wang at Carnegie. Excerpt from Messiaen Vingt Regards...all four Chopin Ballades...much more. No limits whatsoever. Up in the balcony, sounded great.
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? @Kenneth Hoyle I have a Mason & Hamlin BB from 1998 or so. Fantastic instrument. Sarah Faust from NYC's Faust Harrison Pianos (who retailed new Masons at the time) knew I was looking;…
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand? Fazioli, without a doubt. I had occasion to select a concert grand for a performance several years ago. The dealership in NYC/Manhattan from whom the instrument was rented had a Fazioli F 278 and…
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Re: Who was your first music teacher and what valuable lesson did they teach you? I met my first teacher in 1958 when I was 7, in the Bergen County NJ town where I grew up. Her name was Claire von Hofe. She and her husband Henry were 60 and 77 respectively at the time.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Nigel Rogers Friedman's Chopin Nocturne in E flat Op. 55 No. 2 is looked upon by some as one of the greatest piano recordings ever. He performed prodigiously on Australian radio later in life,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” The Scriabin Opus 42 Etudes (and, needless to say, the 10 Sonatas) deserve much more recognition as greatly important works. Ching-Yun Hu's performance is wonderful,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” (1) Alexander Slobodyanik. Ukranian pianist, 1941-2008. Hailed as the most jawdropping phenom since Ashkenazy when he debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1968. Powerhouse romantics interpreter,…
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- 1 yr ago
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