What was the last piece of music that inspired you?
Tell us about the piece you cannot stop thinking about!
You all know this feeling! You hear a piece of music, and suddenly a particular melodic line, a harmonic change, or the timbre of an instrument sends goosebumps all over your body!
Fo me, it was during a recording session with a vocalist performing a piece by Grieg I had never heard of!
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Coincidentally, in the last few days, it's been another Grieg piece: His "Melody" Op. 47 No. 3 -- beautiful, elegiac, with amazing harmonic progressions.
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Hallo everyone! Yes , there is one piece. Last year I was following the Chopin Competition on youtube and on the third stage the Spanish pianist Garcia Garcia played Chopin Sonata Nr. 3. Fell in love especially with the 1. movement- with these different melodies, the chromatic parts and polyphony and this interpretation. I always come back and listen to it. Maybe 30 times since then. Brings me to another world.
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Hi, Martin, Your piece Diamonds in the snow reminded me of a piece that I love which is a choral piece The Snow by Edward Elgar. It’s scored for piano, strings and voices. We sung it in the choir that I am a member of. I searched in vain to find an arrangement for piano only but with no luck. I thought I might have a go at arranging it myself but haven’t got round to it yet.
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Nina Simone - 'Wild is the Wind'. Someone on the internet has written out exactly every note she played. Amazing - but it's probably using a piece of software - who cares! I spoil myself each weekend by playing through it with masses of rubato on the sixteenth note runs.
I had surgery yesterday and wasn't sure that I would be able to make Paul Lewis's concert tonight - the first of four of all the Schubert piano sonatas!