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Charles Finnegan
Приєднався 8 жов 2013
Robert Schumann - Toccata in C major, Op.7
A Toccata is a musical composition, usually for the keyboard, intended as a virtuoso showpiece and featuring fast-moving passages that emphasize the performer's dexterity. The name comes from the Italian toccare, "to touch." Toccatas were especially popular during the Baroque period. Robert Schumann's Toccata is one of very few from the Romantic era. At the time he composed it in 1836, Schumann believed that it was the most difficult keyboard work in existence. However, not long afterward a number of keyboard virtuosi, notably Franz Liszt, composed works of even more devilish difficulty.
The Toccata is the only composition of Schumann whose main reason for being is virtuosic display. Among the more challenging technical aspects of the work is the extreme spread of the fingers of each hand during many of the rapid passages.
I have not performed this piece publicly for several years. However, I heard a friend's performance a few month ago, and that prompted me to return to it. This is a recording from a recent practice session.
The Toccata is the only composition of Schumann whose main reason for being is virtuosic display. Among the more challenging technical aspects of the work is the extreme spread of the fingers of each hand during many of the rapid passages.
I have not performed this piece publicly for several years. However, I heard a friend's performance a few month ago, and that prompted me to return to it. This is a recording from a recent practice session.
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Franz Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
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This is the third section of Liszt's Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S.173. The title translates into English as Blessing of God in solitude. The work was originally published in 1853.
Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor
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Franz Liszt composed his only piano sonata in 1853, and it was published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann. It was first performed by Hans von Bülow in 1857. The work is in one continuous movement with several distinct sections. Major expressive markings in the score are displayed in the video. Performance by Charles Finnegan. Recorded at a public performance in Leeds, England, Octob...
Johannes Brahms - Piano Sonata No.3 in F Minor - Second Movement
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The second movement, Andante expressivo, from Brahms's 3rd Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op.5. It was composed in 1853, when Brahms was 20 years old. Performed by me, when I was 20 years old.
Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in A minor, D.845 - First Movement
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Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version)
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Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements, with interpolated variations on a Promenade theme, composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. One of Mussorgsky's friends was the artist Viktor Hartmann, who died suddenly in 1873 at the age of 39. Over 400 Hartmann works were exhibited in the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia in February and March 1874...
Little Waltz 1
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A little waltz I wrote for my mother when I was 8 years old, before the 21st Century hit me. Played by myself on her piano.
enjoyed your Beautiful video
Excelente. Enhorabuena.
TRANSFORMING! Pianist of the times!
Ashkenazy's version on my fathers cd gave me inspiration for months of practicing just to get 20 secs right, you are giving met that feeling all over again, thanks! you are amazing!
A beautifully limpid and meticulously articulate performance. Gives the impression of letting the music speak. Plenty of subtle but never overdone dynamic contrast. Worthy of repeated listening. Super!
viva la 3a internacional!
You'r a genius
Realmente una de las más claras y bellas rendiciones pianísticas de CDUE de Mussorgsky, tanto en la técnica como en la interpretación. Felicitaciones. Muchas gracias.
wonderful version, Mr. Finnegan. personal but persuasive. (I may prefer it to Plowright or Pletnev, since I'm on a roll with "p")
Pletnev is perfect!
Such an excellent rendering of this great work. Mi complete admiration for your art and for your strength of character. In my humble opinion your tempo in this rendering is a ne plus ultra.Then, it is so clear that you got so deeply identified with the spirit of both the works of Hartman and the way that Mussorgsky wanted to express them. It has been a most gratifying and satisfactory experience to have had the opportunity to listen to this great performance among many others which do not catch nor transmit the original feeling of the composer. If I was to be as so absurdly picky as to ask anything more in it, accordingly with my particular taste, would be only some more energy, some more emphasis and force in the founding notes of the contrasting attacks and then in the same attacks in Baba Yaga's isba and in The Great Gate of Kiev (I guess that if I could have been a pianist I would have tried to "re-translate",. to "re-transcript" the way that Ravel made these two parts sound in his superb orchestral version into a piano rendering). Again, my most expressive thanks and my very best wishes and regards to you.
Excel.lent! Bravo
I was able to hear and feel the bells of the Great Gate. Thank you for that.
This is definitely one of the BEST versions of Pictures I've ever heard! The only other was Byron Janis's playing.
I must say, I LOVED the "Catacombs". Now I'm a tuba player who loves great brass pieces and man are there some awesome chords with the brass but, I just love THIS piano interpretation. It's so genuine. The mental picture it paints is just breathtaking. Mussorgsky is truly a musical genius. Thank you very much. I have enjoyed it very much.
Although minimal schooled in music , i would like to add that for the raw piece that mussorsgky composed the piano versions reflect the true spirit of his compositions, not polished
I'm glad to know that Pictures is still loved and performed today. I thought that when I started learning it, all of the videos I would find would be from the 1990s and maybe early 2000s. I'm a classical music freak and pianist, and I can't stand the modern music today. I'm glad to know that this a fresh recording of Pictures at an Exhibition from such a distinguished, virtuoso pianist as yourself ! Just a bit of trivia, there was/is no original picture for Limoges, le marché. Hartmann's most distinguished watercoulours were from Limoges, France, most of the prestigious cathedral. However, none of them are in alignment of Mussorgsky's work. It is likely the general milieu is of Mussorgsky's invention. None of Hartmann's paintings contained Frenchwomen quarreling and gossiping in the marketplace at Limoges. Mussorgsky DID have two paragraphs of the gossip (La Grande Nouvelle) in the original autograph, but later omitted them.
Hermosa interpretación
Wow! A+ for performance, recording and presentation!
Absolutely stunning! Thank you so very much for this virtuosic performance.
I've listened to this the whole way through about five or six times in the past three days.
Splendid! Mussorgsky has long been my favorite composer and I periodically check for new performances of 'Pictures' on youtube. This has been the best I've heard for some time. Thank you for posting it!
The background of the exhibition of Hartmann's works as well as Mussorgsky's motivation are well illustrated and explained. The interpretation of this piece is very authentic and so clear as I have rarely heard it before. Well done.
Beautifully played as always Charles!