Your favorite musical performances

[vidgil]

Like most pianists I've fawned over Glenn Gould since I began playing. He was a strange little fellow but he could sure play the hell out of a piano.

I prefer his 1981 Goldberg variations recordings over his 1956 recordings. He slowed it down a bit and played with more UMPH. Maybe my favorite performance!

[Master]

That was nice, I wish I could have learn to play. My nieces are learning and it helps with their mental development that play stations/x box do not seem to do for my boys.

[vidgil]

Ah yes! Nothing wrong with a bit of video games but nicer to learn an applicable skill!

[Batman]

Valentina Lsitsa playing Liszt's De Paganini Grande Etude No 3

The version she played at the Royal Albert Hall is my favourite, I've heard other people play it but no one gets it anywhere near her version in my opinion.
She's my favourite concert pianist that is around at the moment. This is one of my most listened to tracks of any artist or genre over the past 2 years

[vidgil]

She's terrific! Incredible performer!

I'm quite fond of Haochen Zhang as well. Impeccable articulation

[El Kabong]

Concert pianists eh? I tend more to the jazz piano players, but whatever.


This little guy can fucking play


Then of course the greats: Oscar Peterson, Count Bassie, Red Garland, Duke Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton


but you guys like the concert pianists, I guess I'll have to study them.

[Batman]

There is a Chinese fella called Yundi as well, I'm pretty sure that he does some original stuff but I love his album of Schumann and Beethoven, he attempts the Grande Etudes as well but as I said before it just falls slightly short.

Robert Schumann done a piece called Er Und Sie, I used to have just a piano only version on CD somewhere but that went missing ages ago, the only versions I can find online now have singing over the top of the piano, as much as I love my classical shit I can't stand operatic vocals, I was lucky enough to learn how to play it before I lost it.

[walrus]

I like Brent midland tickling the ivories on bird song with the greatful dead

[TitoFan]

I love the piano, be it concert performances, jazz, or a good piano solo and arrangement in classic salsa.
Some of the piano giants from here are: Eddie Palmieri, Papo Lucca, Richie Ray, Larry Harlow.

[vidgil]

I love the piano talk but I'm talking musical performances in general... can be anything!

I always loved SRV playing after he got off the drugs and got his head straight, shortly before his dead. My dad's from Texas and met SRV and saw him play many a time. So his records were always playing growing up!

[walrus]

I love the piano talk but I'm talking musical performances in general... can be anything!

I always loved SRV playing after he got off the drugs and got his head straight, shortly before his dead. My dad's from Texas and met SRV and saw him play many a time. So his records were always playing growing up!

I saw Stevie Ray open for joe cocker about a year before Ray died. Fookin incredible show I felt like I was floating listening to him

[TitoFan]

I love the piano talk but I'm talking musical performances in general... can be anything!

I always loved SRV playing after he got off the drugs and got his head straight, shortly before his dead. My dad's from Texas and met SRV and saw him play many a time. So his records were always playing growing up!

I saw Stevie Ray open for joe cocker about a year before Ray died. Fookin incredible show I felt like I was floating listening to him

Wonderful stuff!! The first number right off the bat was probably my favorite. There was one in there that reminded me of a movie, then I remembered.
"Under Siege"!

[vidgil]

I love the piano talk but I'm talking musical performances in general... can be anything!

I always loved SRV playing after he got off the drugs and got his head straight, shortly before his dead. My dad's from Texas and met SRV and saw him play many a time. So his records were always playing growing up!

I saw Stevie Ray open for joe cocker about a year before Ray died. Fookin incredible show I felt like I was floating listening to him

That's awesome. Shame I never had the pleasure of seeing him live, he died way too soon. Dad saw him a lot during the Couldn't Stand the Weather era where he'd open with Scuttle Buttin and it'd be insanity from there.

There's something special about those great guitar master/singers through history, Jimi, Clapton, etc.

[Master]

I am glad a guitarist is in this thread, George Benson is my personal favourite.

[vidgil]

I am glad a guitarist is in this thread, George Benson is my personal favourite.

What a master, George Benson. Always dug his stuff!

@TitoFan have any great Puerto Rican stuff to recommend?