The first two movements of “Five Piano Pieces”, Op. 3, by Richard Strauss, performed here by Glenn Gould:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4BRPqHE5Y
Some beautiful stillness and reflection for a Wednesday afternoon.
The first two movements of “Five Piano Pieces”, Op. 3, by Richard Strauss, performed here by Glenn Gould:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4BRPqHE5Y
Some beautiful stillness and reflection for a Wednesday afternoon.
“Watchman’s Song” – Lyric Pieces Book 1, Op. 12, No. 3, by Edvard Grieg:
More on the Lyric Pieces here.
The second movement of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, performed by Leonard Bernstein and accompanied by the Orchestre National de France:
I have never been a tremendous aficionado of Bernstein’s piano performances – a great (if variable) composer and conductor, he simply spread himself too thin to have made himself one of the greats. But this is a superb performance, very well conducted from the keyboard.
It is also interesting to see Bernstein (partly through necessity) adopt the pre-Liszt piano/orchestra configuration.
Bach/Busoni, Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004.
French pianist Hélène Grimaud is at the keyboard in an excellent live recital recording from the Berliner Philharmonie.
Scheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y
A fine performance of the full work by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the LSO’s principal conductor, Valery Gergiev.
More on the background of the piece here.