Maybe it's because both my parents were pianists, but I cannot 'hear' solo piano music. All I hear is a piano, not the music.

I don't mean piano as provider of melody within the context of a band, but solo piano.

Doesn't matter what genre.

CRAP.

I understand your sentiments, although I can't agree with you.

For similar reasons, I cannot listen to god anymore.

The voice of god + lp filter + compression + reverb = guaranteed nosebleeds.

NOT CRAP. Unless you're using the 'piano' settings on a Casio keyboard. Or if you're Jamie Cuntem. Or if you're the dick at school who knows only how play the opening few notes of Axel F, and does so repeatedly.


Satie, my man, SATIE?! No?

So much not crap.

Debussy wrote some of the greatest music ever for solo piano - completely transcends the limitations that previously existed. Ravel too.

Chopin's Nocturnes. Beethoven's "Hammerklavier", Bach's "Well Tempered Klavier", Haydn's 52nd & 55th sonatas, Ligeti's Etudes, Boulez' first and second sonatas.

Then there's Monk's solo stuff, and Fats Waller, McCoy Tyner, Hampton Hawes. Solo and solos in the context of accompiament.

Fortepianos are cool too. Period pianos and reproductions of pianos from the late 18th century. Sound kinda like a harpsichord in tone.

Not Crap

Thelonious Monk.

N/C.

Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert is not crap

honestly i have no idea what you are talking about. You hear the piano but not the music?

Listen, the Piano is the most perfectly created instrument. All twelve semi tones layed out in a beutifully sequencial order.

oh yes, and solo Monk.

Not Crap times one million bagillion

GhostFace wrote:...Listen, the Piano is the most perfectly created instrument. All twelve semi tones layed out in a beutifully sequencial order...

Yes, beautiful....this Equal Temperment that we've had for the last 350 years or so.

As cool as the greek & church modes, just intonation, microtonal & Partch scales are - we are used to and appreciate the implied intervallic relationships found in equal temperment more than any other form....correct or not!

geiginni wrote:So much not crap.

Debussy wrote some of the greatest music ever for solo piano

Hell yeah.

If for the rest of eternity, I could only listen to one musician/group, it would have to be Debussy, specifically his solo piano stuff. The things I've heard for "four hands" are alright and all. But there's something so magical about the feelings and images he was able to create with one piano and two human hands.

Debussy's solo piano works are my favorite music.

Obviously then, NOT CRAP!

Andrew L. wrote:Thelonious Monk.

N/C.

Agreed. I love the solo Monk piano stuff. Also Glenn Gould....solo piano can be not crap.