Instrument use: Piano as solo instrument.
21oh, geiginni: what do you think of boulez's "structures pour deux pianos"?
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Eksvplot wrote:tmidgett wrote:i have one of those Gould recordings of the Golberg Variations (i forget which one) and it doesn't do much for me at all.
yeah, i just looked and it's the newer one i own.
geiginni wrote:steve wrote:Conlon Nancarrow, but I'm not sure that counts. He completely changed my perception of the instrument. He's not really "playing" it, but it is being played because of him. What a tornado.
Thirded. I agree with the "not sure it counts" statement. What really does it for me in listening to Nancarrow isn't necessarily how he used the timbre and tonal characteristics of the piano so much as how revolutionary his compositional ideas concerning rhythm, tempi, polyphony, and the interlocking of these aspects in his work.
When thinking about solo piano music, part of the criteria for me is the exploitation of the timbral capabilities of the instrument, which can be quite impressive. It seems that often the piano is treated simply a note producing device with less consideration for its actual tonal possibilites and more focus on the straightforward range and dynamic abilities of the instrument.
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