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.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyH_FVnRS7g

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    • Ernest Davis wow, beautiful, thank you for sharing! 

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  • The final minute of Argerich playing the Schumann concerto.  Unbelievably uplifting!

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    • Kerstin
    • Kerstin
    • 1 yr ago
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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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    • Hazel
    • Hazel
    • 1 yr ago
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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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    • Ted
    • Ted
    • 1 yr ago
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    It takes a certain kind of composer to just write "Chopin Mazurka Opus 17" in the middle of a score and make it work.  Shaw has inspired me to include "Insert (chopin piece)" into just about everything from comments on student papers to daily shopping lists.  Because why not?  

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  • Thank you for posting this beautiful piece of Grieg op 48. Otherwise , I would not have known. It is gorgeous. Priscilla

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    • Mat
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    • Mat
    • 1 yr ago
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    I know it's not piano but it's inspiring. 

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      • Roy
      • Royhj
      • 1 yr ago
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      Mat wow, thank you for sharing

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    • ndmyquyen
    • ndmyquyen
    • 1 yr ago
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    I've been always thinking of Chopin Sonata N.3, but in the last few days I'm a little bit more with Charles Tomlinson Griffes - The White Peacock

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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!

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  • Schubert Impromptu Op 90 n 1

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  • Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 1, Gould's Recording

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    • Howard
    • Howard
    • 1 yr ago
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    Shostakovitch's Preludes and Fugues. 

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