Are you ready for quarter tones? It doesn’t take long to get used to them if you give it a go. Alois Hába (1893-1973)
From: Wellesz Theater
Category: Piano
Mandinga improvisation — Rubén González
Anthropology — Bud Powell (1962)
Erroll Garner LIVE in ’64!
I haven’t posted much piano jazz, but it was Erroll Garner’s birthday a couple of days ago and I came across this video. Great pianist (who couldn’t read a note of music).
3 Gymnopédies, 6 Gnossiennes — Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Minimalist. Everybody was into Satie to one extent or another when I was in college. I don’t know how it is anymore.
Nocturne in E flat major, op. 33 No. 1 – Gabriel Fauré // Kathryn Stott, piano
Composed c. 1875.
Walter Gieseking plays Franz Schubert Impromptu in B flat Op. 142 No. 3
Impromptu // theme and variations
Piano Sonata — Charles Griffes
Charles Griffes (1884-1920). U.S. composer. Generally known as an “impressionist” (but you may know by now that I think music and art can be, and often is, overcategorized.) This is his only piano sonata. There is no question that Debussy, etc. had a strong influence on him as did Scriabin. But his music is his own..recognizable, I think.
Alexander Tcherepnin: Eight pieces for piano, Op.88 (1954/1955)
Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977). Exciting original stuff (to me).
