I don't know how successful this will be. But my love for classical presses me to do it.
For starters. here's Yulianna Avdeeva in Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 (third stage, 2010)
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I don't know how successful this will be. But my love for classical presses me to do it.
For starters. here's Yulianna Avdeeva in Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 (third stage, 2010)
I like Yulianna Avdeeva. I heard her because I followed the 2010 International Chopin Competition. She won that year, beating Ingolf Wunder. I think Wunder should have won. Here's a youtube comment that sums up my thoughts on it.
Wunder actually had the highest score of the competition, weird that he didn't win.Quote:
2010 International Chopin Piano Competition Scandal
Throughout the competition, Wunder was widely believed to be the best competitor as the audience favorite and leader in points. However, in the last stage of the competition, the judges scrapped the points system being used and evaluated the winner solely based on the final round. Although Wunder won the prize for Best Concerto (the final stage), he
was not given the gold medal (awarded to Yulianna Avdeeva.) This created outrage among the Warsaw public, proclaiming the events a scandal similar to the Ivo Pogorelich case of the 1980 competition.
Wunder plays the piano like I would play it, if I had the talent and had obsessed on it in my teens instead of in my late 30's.
You know, you can take a piece of music and make it say different things, he makes it say the things I would say.
Worth a watch to see his pianogasms. :laugh:
I am a classical music nerd. It took me a lot of effort to learn to appreciate classical, but I'm glad I made the effort.
Mussorgsky is why I ever even gave classical a chance.
Especially good is 24:00 to the end. It's like the composer taps into feelings that never existed before he penned them. For example, 29:56 thru 30:54, I don't know how you put that feeling into words.
I enjoy classical too. It's my go to music when I'm getting my wife in the mood.
I like the way he becomes so emotionally involved. It takes his music to another level.
What impresses me about Avdeeva is the seemingly effortless way her fingers flit over the keys.
Here is her performance of Chopin's Etude in A Minor (as I mentioned to you in a PM, my favorite piece):
What the heck, I'll put it here, too (besides the Guitar thread).
That was impressive, but it was most certainly not the moonlight sonata 😆
Bach was the composer who turned me on to classical. His music still takes me away
https://youtu.be/-ywL_zokELE
The first piece of classical I learned to play on guitar was Bach. This one:
Nice. Really nice.