Music Thread ~ CLASSICAL ~

**Kryztian** · 5th April 2024 03:38

Today, April 4th is the birthday of Eugène Bozza (1905 – 1991)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CsxZcXuaS18

**Tintin** · 26th August 2024 12:22

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨 (𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐨𝐥𝐥&#119834

- 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦
Beautifully performed

**Ivanhoe** · 10th January 2025 03:18

Just thought I'd share something I needed to hear.
Hope you enjoy!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLmSpBsDxdk

**Michel Leclerc** · 24th January 2025 22:58

Posted by Ivanhoe (here)
Just thought I'd share something I needed to hear.
Hope you enjoy!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLmSpBsDxdk

Oh, oh... Kempff‘s 1964 recording.. Have just listened to the Allegro con brio... Kempff‘s celebrated depth of tone, tenuto.. What an extraordinary differentiation really – and by this means of song-likeness, achieving an utterly persuasive exposition of the piece’s divine architecture. The staccatos in the left hand singing even; the “stumbling” little ritardandos at about 3:10 and 7:40. The extraordinary expressiveness of the three times halted upward phrase right before the final chords. Not too fast, and yet, the waves of sound keep coming, irresistible (after 6:00 for instance). The German piano school... imbued with Italian grace...

Thanks Ivanhoe..

p.s.: the short bridging middle movement (like in the 4th Piano Concerto of the same Olympic middle period) how clear! and then the Finale, which is so often emptied of lyricism when the note figurations become the sole object of focus – how Kempff, from about 18:38, achieves the mysterious three-minute buildup until the song theme of the Finale comes back, shining as if it were a greeting from the angels.. leading to the Coda presto Kempff holding the tension (the right-hand trills!) so that in the left hand, the staccato of the first movement quote can clearly be heard.. and the listener can be said goodbye to by the friendly three-chord “Le-be-wohl" motif — !

**Michel Leclerc** · 22nd March 2025 16:36

In these end times the value of real artistic creation shines stronger than ever.

The growing interest for the greatness of a young Soviet pianist who four decades ago managed to “flee to the West” in his mid twenties, then in 1988 died from aids when he was 33 in Amsterdam, Youri Egorov (actually to be pronounced Yegorov), is a balm on my heart. The reincarnated Dinu Lipatti he has been called – and that is an apt description because he has Lipatti’s purity of line, emotional subtlety, sincerity..

I will briefly introduce three of his most masterly readings. Mostly just his music – there are not many live performances to be seen.

But first a moving documentary about Youri Egorov made in the Netherlands, where after his post-Queen Elisabeth contest participation (he won 3rd prize) he found the love of his life.

**Michel Leclerc** · 22nd March 2025 17:31

Youri Egorov the incredibly empathic interpreter of Chopin, Schumann, Schubert – yes. I will present this music later.

But first I would like to introduce what I am only discovering now, while typing this: Youri Egorov’s version of Sergei Prokofiev’s 8th Sonata, the last of the trio of War Sonatas (together with the 6th and the 7th, obviously) written in 1943, if I am right, while Prokofiev was in the USSR Georgia. Whereas the 6th Sonata is sharp, aggressive, witty and the 7th mobilises the demonic and the forces of madness, the 8th is more the music of introspection and melancholy sadness at the terrible human cost of the “Great Patriotic War”. Most pianists however emphasise its towering size (half an hour for its three movements) and its monumental, virtuoso Finale.

Not so Youri Egorov. His is simply the best version I know of this sonata since I was so fortunate to hear Emil Gilels play it in Antwerp when I was 16 or so. Supreme clarity, unerringly sounding its depths. A live recording from 1981. Youri was 26 or 27.

The comment on the Youtube recording is moving and enlightening.

**Ivanhoe** · 17th May 2025 23:38

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DHJsjZFu89U

**Lunesoleil** · 30th May 2025 21:10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7dOvJlb8Xo

I listened a lot in my youth 🎹

**Kryztian** · 31st May 2025 02:19

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ybq6Ea79nZ4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_IzI0vn8egw

Heil’ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder;
Nieder wallen auch die Träume,
Wie dein Mondlicht durch die Räume,
Durch der Menschen stille Brust.
Die belauschen sie mit Lust;
Rufen, wenn der Tag erwacht:
Kehre wieder, heil’ge Nacht!
Holde Träume, kehret wieder!

Holy night, you sink down;
dreams, too, float down,
like your moonlight through space,
through the silent hearts of men.
They listen with delight,
crying out when day awakes:
come back, holy night!
Fair dreams, return!

**Ivanhoe** · 22nd December 2025 22:23

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7aXEvCeXY

**bojancan** · 22nd December 2025 23:54

Still watching Palestinians dying... and my heart is broken... there is NO Christmas for them...

MALAKAI sings 'Pie Jesu' from his debut album GOLDEN