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Instead of having one thread for each YouTube clip, let's keep any posts that link to Youtube in this thread. Feel free to link your favorite clips to want and discuss them.

That being said, here are a some ones that I like:

Roger Muraro plays Messiaen, Regard de l\'Esprit de Joie

Hamelin plays Liszt

Gilels Plays Beethoven op. 26

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Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, 2nd movement - Yundi Li

In the final round of the Chopin Competition 2000...

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A few of my favorites. More to be added later.

Brahms: Waltz in A flat - Kissin
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oy6uV-eMOEs

Strauss/Grunfeld:Fledermaus - Kissin
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yKnbwd7n8IQ

Liszt:Grand Galop Chromatique - Cziffra
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SygS5yz7x5M

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2(with amazing Hamelin cadenza)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6BMMTHeMRM

Rachmaninov/Fiorentino: Voclaise - Fiorentino
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q30JUz8jn9E

Liszt/Volodos: Hungarian Rhapsody #13- Volodos
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ztLQ0LFjSR0

Mompou: Secreto - Hough
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LVUIqMvcHlQ

Mompou:Jeunes filles au jardin - Hough
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9gCquIhX20w

Quilter/Hough: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal- Hough
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mtqQAfoNCeI

Chopin: Piano Concerto #2 - Kissin(at age 12)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gilNaeUsPNQ

Liszt:Transcendental Etude #5 - Kissin
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pPRsJoyKzp8

Chopin: Piano Concerto #1(2nd Movt) - Yundi Li
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mg24YsN0iuU

In Dulci Jubilo -Kings College Cambridge
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXze_TLUTqM

Ravel: La Valse(2 pianos)- Argerich and Tiempo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqIz-p84C-I

Strauss/Godowsky: Wine,Women,and Song -Cherkassky
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uuNDvgwa_XM

Beethoven: Appassionata Sonata (movt1)- Gilels
http://youtube.com/watch?v=joINnT_ncVc

Tchaikovsky/Pletnev: Nutcracker Gran Pa de Deux -Pletnev
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JbZ6Gz5DAy8

Piazzola: Libertango(2pianos) - Anderson and Roe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0INlumRpL8

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p.lvrus,

your last link is takes us not to where you intended, but again to:
Stephen Hough--Federico Mompou Jeunes filles au jardin...which you already posted above...... in case you want to edit your post.

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Thank you very much for providing the Messiaen clip. I was actually ignorant of that composer until I watched it. I was absolutely mezmorized by this composer's music and will continue to explore it beyond these clips. I usually frown at contemporary or atonal music, deem it noise, and return to classical tonal music. Messiaen's sounds, nonetheless, rather impressed me. I have only one to contribute at the moment, which is a pretty popular one:
Kathleen Battle singing Brahm's Requiem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHYBzSVsqQY

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not being objective, i like my baby playing chopin:

Frédéric Chopin Valse Op. 64 no 2 by william chiu on very old school piano....
Ha.That was delightful.

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listening to this one now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Lox6Qab8A

She's quite good. Check out her videos of Chopin 10/2 and Ravel Jeux d'eau, too.


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Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.


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Hopping on the Argerich train for a moment, here she is playing Strauss's Burleske with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic:

Burleske Part I
Burleske Part II

For the more adventurous, here's Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto, with Bronfman (the dedicatee) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with the composer conducting:

Salonen Concerto first movement, part I
Salonen Concerto first movement, part II
Salonen Concerto second movement
Salonen Concerto third movement
Salonen Concerto post-performance interviews

Ashkenazy performs Rautavaara\'s 3rd Piano Concerto, last movement

Gould plays Prokofiev\'s 7th Sonata, part I
Gould plays Prokofiev\'s 7th Sonata, part II

Rachmaninov plays his Paganini Rhapsody, with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra:

Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody, part I
Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody, part II
Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody, part III

Rachmaninov plays his G minor Prelude

Prokofiev plays Rachmaninov\'s G minor Prelude

Prokofiev plays his 3rd Piano Concerto, first movement

will add more to this post as I find more stuff...


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:: Off Topic ::

With all due respect, I don't think having all the youtube links in a single thread makes very much sense. If a video is intended to serve as a point of discussion (as with a 'new thread'), after a while, with so many links, the discussions on this thread will become very incoherent and eventually, undoubtedly impossible to follow.

I'll have to admit, I've also posted youtube links elsewhere. However, they within the context of and to support an already on-going discussion. I could post those same links here, but to me those same links would have no frame of reference and would make people go, "Huh?"

Its also very likely, as evidenced by the amount of new posts (posted subsequent to this thread) containing youtube links, that many people are unaware of (and will never read) this thread (despite it being pinned).

Difficult to enforce.

If you'd like to voice your opinion, the discussion continues here .

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I've been meaning to listen to Wanda Landowska for some time, and here it was all suppled to me through your link. Thank you so much.

She lived in the vicinity of my materal great-grandparents in Connecticut near Gardiner's Lake. There was a grand piano frame in their front yard supposed to have been removed from "the piano teacher's" home nearby. It fascinated me as a child, just the outline of a grand piano, no innards. Probably they were going to use it as a planter garden.

I visited there about once a year until age 16 then all of that generation who would have known the story of the grand piano had passed away. I wish I could have met Wanda and Denise as neighbors.

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Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.
Stupendous! ...Unlike the extreme forearm fatigue I get from this piece.


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This young lady is quite good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmsQzZz_0k

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Michelangeli plays Scarlatti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXHUIpNCu2k

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[b] Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.
Stupendous! ...Unlike the extreme forearm fatigue I get from this piece. [/b]
That piece is as boring and about as unmusical as "Islamey". Why bother?

Regards,


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fazil say plays ravel's sonatine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68sChKCObYw


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[b] Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.
Stupendous! ...Unlike the extreme forearm fatigue I get from this piece. [/b]
That piece is as boring and about as unmusical as "Islamey". Why bother?

Regards, [/b]
I prefer this other recording of the same pianist:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSqkzsWXlU&feature=related

Works for me.


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I wake up to this short and sweet hymn every morning:

It Is Well With Me

Love this:
Girl Plays Chopin

And of course, though it ain't a Rhodes, can't resist electric piano:

Logical Song


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Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, 2nd movement - Yundi Li

In the final round of the Chopin Competition 2000...
Breathtakingly beautiful... thanks for posting.

There really is nothing to compare with Chopin imo - no words can describe this music. This grown man had a tear in his eye.


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Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 - Rachmaninov - Grimaud

Youtube

Ravel: Miroirs, No. 3 Une barque sur l'ocean Marie-Joseph Jude

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Meeting girls is easy (once you know how to play the piano).

Blue Danube Waltz (as you've never seen it). Enjoy.

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Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (3rd and 4th movements) arranged for piano for 4 hands.


on youtube:

part 1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVOSo8ds7rE

part 2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6sJozprumZ4

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by argerichfan:
Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.
Stupendous! ...Unlike the extreme forearm fatigue I get from this piece.
That piece is as boring and about as unmusical as "Islamey". Why bother?

I prefer this other recording of the same pianist:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSqkzsWXlU&feature=related

Works for me. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, but at least in the version I posted, Mr. Gibbons is playing a Steinway instead of a dodgy Yamaha. Works for me! laugh

Sorry, Bruce, that you don't much fancy this Alkan gem. I find it utterly thrilling, but I'm very enamored with Alkan anyway.


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[b] Jack Gibbons plays Alkan live.

Stupendous.
Stupendous! ...Unlike the extreme forearm fatigue I get from this piece. [/b]
That piece is as boring and about as unmusical as "Islamey". Why bother?

Regards, [/b]
I think that Islamey has some gorgeous moments, so I much prefer it to Allegro Barbaro wink


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You guys have probably already seen Kissin\'s Rage over the Lost Penny before, but I figured it was worth posting.


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Sergei Babayan plays the last movement of Prokofiev 2nd:

Part one

Part two

One of the faster performances I've heard of this, but it seems to be the standard for Volodos and some other Eastern Europeans/Russians as well.

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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone would take the time to give advice on my rendition of einaudi's "le onde".
I would appreciate it if you posted any comments you have on the comments section below the video
Thanks,
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Meeting girls is easy (once you know how to play the piano).

Blue Danube Waltz (as you've never seen it). Enjoy.
That's really cool!

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I just came across this piece while searching for videos of Ravel's Jeux D'eau.

Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este - Liszt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P834X6jjqps

Anyone who has a misconception about Liszt should hear this composition.


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Mauricio Vallina playing the Kempff transcription of Bach's Siciliana from the Flute Sonata #2 - I especially like the dudes chilling in the background; I wonder who they could be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHOUj4kaOU

I thought she was telling him to stop humming at one point - but she was just after the splif...

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Some of my faves...

Vocalise - Fiorentino piano transcription - Fiorentino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q30JUz8jn9E

Vocalise - Anna Moffo (reduces me to tears)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8RwT8ODHA

Vocalise - Kocsis piano transcription - Daria Rabotkina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-GwyUOmUs

La Valse - piano solo - Berezovsky - I think I'll learn this for the next ABF recital... smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzEkQxOcXQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7XQ5bDVxqM

Gaspard' - Perlemuter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1s9JCzvQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdwmrT2A1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRrcSEVzgI

Chopin Nocturne 1 - Maria Joao Pires - it's a soppy video, but I do like her performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IlOlvlTLLY

And for for J. Mark... (well, somebody had to post it!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAb2nI2hVqk

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La Valse - piano solo - Berezovsky - I think I'll learn this for the next ABF recital... smile
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7XQ5bDVxqM
Excellent, LaValse! Thank you for posting this, as I've not seen it. Berezovsky is my favorite heart . In my opinion, nothing can top his TE #12, but the last few minutes of this piece come pretty darn close! Wow!

p.s.- psshh, you got this one for the next recital, no problem! Besides, don't you kind of feel obligated to learn it? smile

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I stumbled across this guy's Moscow Conservatory recital when doing a YouTube search on "Hummel". I have no idea who he is - I assume a student there - but his playing is a wonderful throwback to another era. Listening to him was like suddenly finding myself transported to the so-called "Golden Age" of pianism, when pianists were expected to have BIG musical personalities, and were feted for it if they did. The Hummel op. 11 Rondo was the first thing I heard, and it was obvious right away that he was someone special. He takes some liberties with the score (which is totally appropriate for his style of playing) and I love it.

Speaking of liberties, his Chopin waltz fantasy is plain outrageous and will curl the hair of purists.

If that sounds interesting, give him a try - it's all interesting playing, and at times, especially in the Rachmaninoff sonata, it's breathtaking. It wouldn't surprise me if he ends up being well-known.

Also, he's got physically rather amazing hands. I'm beginning to wonder if people destined to play piano may be able to alter their DNA to grow these things at the ends of their arms....

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Well for my few pennyworth I think having a dedicated forum for this youtube access and comment would be very useful. I also think that youtube is a huge success in every aspect and we are so fortunate to be living in the computer age,in spite of the relatively small amount of snags that can blight the system, in total we are much the better off with it, in my view.

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Well for my few pennyworth I think having a dedicated forum for this youtube access and comment would be very useful. I also think that youtube is a huge success in every aspect and we are so fortunate to be living in the computer age,in spite of the relatively small amount of snags that can blight the system, in total we are much the better off with it, in my view.

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Agreed - it would make sense to have separate forum so that threads regarding the postings would be possible.

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Well I suppose I have posted this here before, but now it is in the "official" thread.

Sir Charles Groves and Martha Argerich... and the great hilarious moment from Martha: "I'm not afraid of speed on the contrary... on the contrary that is my problem!" And some nice footage of her legendary octaves...

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Thanks, wr, for linking us to V. Vartanian. He is fantastic. I love his Chopin Waltz transcription. He is definitely someone to watch out for in the future! Beautiful playing - and an incredibly exciting performer.

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Thanks, wr, for linking us to V. Vartanian. He is fantastic. I love his Chopin Waltz transcription. He is definitely someone to watch out for in the future! Beautiful playing - and an incredibly exciting performer.
And thanks for posting a response. It's nice to know someone else agrees when it comes to the playing of someone unknown.

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Thanks for linking us to V. Vartanian. He is fantastic.
Well indeed! This a major young artist at work. Just goes to show -I suppose- how much God-given talent is out there. Something to marvel at and be grateful for. Yeah, I studied that Chopin waltz, but I take my hat off to him. I am truly, and very happily, impressed.

No doubt this wonderful gentleman has worked very, very hard -you know, I did too!- but (once again) pace all the piano teachers here: this is a prime example of supreme piano playing that cannot be taught. Ultimately you either have it or you don't. No teacher can change that, they can only refine.

And now watch his Rachmaninov: Amazing!

Very much to admire of course, but listen to how carefully he voices those chords...


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Well I suppose I have posted this here before, but now it is in the "official" thread.

Sir Charles Groves and Martha Argerich... and the great hilarious moment from Martha: "I'm not afraid of speed on the contrary... on the contrary that is my problem!" And some nice footage of her legendary octaves...

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Thanks for posting this! I confess I'd never seen it before and it's always so interesting to get an insight into her personality. Oh, and the octaves at the end are amazing!


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best performance of extremely difficult score

My fave.
I love it when he turns the page and his eyes bulge out - I've had exactly that experience!


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Bronfman plays the Rach3 with the ossia cadenza. I've purposely linked to part 2 (I believe there are 5 parts in all) so you can hear the cadenza which starts at about 2:25 or so. Took my breath away...

Clickey here.....

I know Horowitz & Martha A's versions have always been considered benchmarks for this piece. But neither of them have anything on Bronfman where this is concerned (IMHO). What power !

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Godowsky - The Swan

does anyone have this piece's sheet music?
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Some amazing performances of PW member Koji Atwood:


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Some amazing performances of PW member Koji Atwood:


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Those thirds make me jealous, and the Tchaikovsky-Feinberg is just out of this world!

I like Barber Ballade a lot.


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Hello everybody
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Can anyone identify this song? I desperately need to know what it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFChiv3930

Thank you in advance

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posted in another topic, but it belongs here smile

one hand and a hook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcsCG6Fgykc

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the end of one of my favorite concertos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3VDR_MkkHfM


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check out Myra Hess
Great, thanks! Never noticed the similarity to the 5th Symphony before... da da da daaaaahhh....


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check out Myra Hess
Great, thanks! Never noticed the similarity to the 5th Symphony before... da da da daaaaahhh....
And of course you'll find that same motive -in a sense- in the 1st mov't of the 4th Piano Concerto.

Thanks apple* for the Myra Hess. Interesting that she breaks the pianistic eruption in measure 14 between two hands. Tovey doesn't mention that option in his edition, but I believe (?) Bülow did in his edition.

It seems fair enough without compromising Beethoven's intentions. And perhaps Beethoven wrote the passage as he did with the idea that a resourceful pianist would find an intelligent way to divide between the hands.

The parallel passage at measure 149 has the left hand otherwise occupied, but try it: the right hand starts with a crescendo and with the underpinning from the left hand, it feels easier. But yet is anything in the Appassionata easy? Charles Rosen considers it overall as hard as the Op. 106.


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check out Myra Hess
Great, thanks! Never noticed the similarity to the 5th Symphony before... da da da daaaaahhh....
And of course you'll find that same motive -in a sense- in the 1st mov't of the 4th Piano Concerto.
... and of course in Brahms Op. 5 (sonata), Op. 9 (variations), Op. 10 No. 1 (ballade)...... sometimes I wonder if it's just a nice rhythm that Beethoven, Brahms et al liked to use, without any perhaps-popularly-blown-out-of-proportion connection to the 5th?


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Apple, thanks for the link. That is a GREAT performance of the first movement of the Appassionata. Now, where can I find the rest?


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Not piano but a wonderful performance of an extraordinary piece of music. I find myself going back to this video over and over. Elgar's music does something for my soul.

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Elgar, Nimrod Variation - Barenboim and the CSO
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