Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music?
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Erik Satie for "modern and intellectual, but also highly digestible".
Arvo Pärt's "Alina" for "full of sadness, but also breathtakingly beautiful".
Glenn Gould's interpretation of Bach's "das wohltemperierte Klavier". A titan (in the Newtonian sense) of piano interpreting the compositions of the perhaps, along with Mozart, greatest composer of western baroque music. Piano was never the same again.
Anything played by Martha Argerich. Also highly recommendable on video. She is one with the instrument to a degree that is absolutely staggering. No technical prowess resists her, and is always played with intuitive grace and light-handedness, because she never practices. She doesn't have to, she just plays.
Arvo Pärt's "Alina" for "full of sadness, but also breathtakingly beautiful".
Glenn Gould's interpretation of Bach's "das wohltemperierte Klavier". A titan (in the Newtonian sense) of piano interpreting the compositions of the perhaps, along with Mozart, greatest composer of western baroque music. Piano was never the same again.
Anything played by Martha Argerich. Also highly recommendable on video. She is one with the instrument to a degree that is absolutely staggering. No technical prowess resists her, and is always played with intuitive grace and light-handedness, because she never practices. She doesn't have to, she just plays.
Wim Mertens has some great piano compositions, although they also tend to sneak in a few strings and voices.
eg:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77R2TuScWU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybqjwf8w8s
and then there's improv; The Köln Concert is superb - but not available on youtube w/out subscription.
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert
eg:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77R2TuScWU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybqjwf8w8s
and then there's improv; The Köln Concert is superb - but not available on youtube w/out subscription.
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert
Check out Jean-Michel Blais. I love his very stripped down intimate recordings.
Also I highly recommend diving into some Oscar Peterson.
Also I highly recommend diving into some Oscar Peterson.
“Blurred Lines & Rape Me” by Reb Fountain and Amanda Palmer (YouTube for it).
Frédéric Chopin
https://open.spotify.com/album/4marX3D0PVQkL8a08MS4mP
https://open.spotify.com/album/4marX3D0PVQkL8a08MS4mP
Thank you all for the recs! This is already plenty to get me started. Really appreciate it!
Philip Glass, Metamorphosis
Henrik Lindstrand - Leken
I'm open to anything, from classical to contemporary, pop to metal, doesn't have to be purely instrumentals either.
Look forward to hearing any and all of your recommendations!