pianopera
"I love the piano and those who love the piano. The piano as a medium for expression is a whole world by itself. No other instrument can fill or replace its own say in the world of emotion, sentiment, poetry, imagery and fancy."
(Leopold Godowsky, 1870-1938)
On this YouTube page, I share my favourite historical recordings and artists, as well as some recordings of my own playing.
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If you are interested in (some of) the historical recordings I posted, please buy the ORIGINAL transfers from the best specialist independent labels, such as APR, Arbiter Records, Biddulph, Dante, Marston, Music & Arts, Naxos Historical, Pearl, Testament and VAI Audio. They have the best sound quality.
Enjoy my channel, mainly dedicated to V.S.O.P.
(Very Superior Old Pianists)!
Ezra Rachlin plays Liszt – Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (1956)
"Happy Birthday" – Marshall Izen (ca. 1965)
Liszt Liebestraum No. 3
Arcadi Volodos plays Schubert-Liszt – Der Müller und der Bach (live)
Myra Hess plays Tobias Matthay – Album Leaf Opus 22 (1938)
Mendelssohn – Song Without Words in D-major, Opus 85 no. 4
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 K. 271 in E flat major ("Jeunehomme") – Novaes/Scherman/LOS (live, 1950)
Peter Katin plays Schubert – Impromptu Opus 142 No. 3 in B-flat major, D. 935 (live, 1961)
Wilhelm Kempff plays Three Pieces of Mendelssohn (ca. 1924 rec.)
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Sonata Opus 90 (ca. 1924 rec.)
Maria Grinberg plays Chopin – Polonaise Opus 53 (live)
Maria Grinberg plays Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3
Leonid Kreutzer plays Beethoven – Sonata Opus 26 in A-flat Major (1938)
Schubert's Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574 – Joseph Szigeti/Myra Hess (1952)
Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand – Claude Helffer/Jean Martinon/Chicago SO (Live, 1968)
Feinberg plays Scriabin – Four Pieces, Opus 51 (1947 rec.)
Richard Farrell plays Granados – The Maiden and the Nightingale (1958)
Richard Strauss at the Piano (1949)
Matvey Gozenpud plays two of his own pieces (1937)
Walter Rummel plays Chopin's Waltz Opus 34/2 in A minor (1943)
Lili Kraus plays Bartók – Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs (1980 rec.)
Myra Hess plays Bach – Prelude in G major, BWV 902 (1956)
Horszowski plays Schumann's Kinderszenen (live, 1986)
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D-flat major – Erwin & Ai Poelstra
Schumann – New Year Eve's Song
Morning Practice Session (Bach, Schumann)
Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 – Ogdon/Boulez/BBC SO (Live, 1967)
Mozart/Liszt – Ave Verum Corpus (Erwin Poelstra, piano)