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fortmis wrote

If you like her and want more recommendations let me know, I can barely contain my love for her!!!

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subrosa wrote

The thing you linked will last plenty more listens, but a few more sure can't hurt. Any piano-only pieces among them?

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fortmis wrote

Plenty!

Here she is playing the Liszt transcription (he arranged it for solo piano from the original piano and voice) of Schumann's Widmung ("Dedication' to his future wife and composer Clara), a freakin SHOW STOPPER -- although as an encore piece, the show has technically already stopped. So it's a show REVIVER.

Here's another Liszt, an amazing live recording/video, she's playing the Hungarian Rhapsody number 6, in 1966, a year after having won the International Chopin Competition. Liszt wrote a lot of music built upon melodies of Hungarian folk songs, and even a symphony piece about the 1848 Hungarian revolution, in which a friend of his was killed. He was big about Hungary getting independence from Austria. You're gunna want to put your seatbelt on for the last minute or two of this one.

Fast forward about 25 years, and here she is playing Chopin's 3rd piano sonata. The Largo (slow) movement is just heart wreeeenching.

Here is a live recording where she is playing Bach's English Suite number 2 in A minor. One of my favourite favourite Bachs of all time. Is it so packed with action and electriity! She plays Bach in an almost jazzy way and it gives it amazing flow and brings out the rhythm in such a way where you feel like you could dance do it. Here is a clearer studio recorded version, And here is a clip of her playing it live (I personally really enjoy seeing videos of people performing... especially when they look as entertained and amused as she does when she plays haha)

If you want more solo piano from her, she has several albums of solo piano recordings, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt eceteraaaaa

ok bye!

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