I made my "transfer" from classical to jazz through Nina Simone's love me or leave me.Jazz is something we all should embrace. It is awesome because of its variety.
close your eyes and imagine this as multiple pianists on multiple pianos... the fluidity of all the voices is just amazing. I feel dirty for not having heard of this guy during my playing years, but he gives every pianist something to look up to.
Wow.... some of the sounds he makes on that piano sound impossible for a piano.... I don't know how he does it. He's a master all right, and not just a master, but A Master.
Amazing voicing and pedaling. I've learnt this piece before, but this video really makes me rethink how some of the lines should be played...time to learn it a second time!
It's the evenness of tone that's amazing to me-- how each tone matches the others with such clarity. This is something that good woodwind players spend a lifetime trying to do. Michelangeli was a strange, impassioned genius. No wonder that most pianos he found while on tour were not up to his excruciating standard. Could this be one of the reasons he cancelled appearances so often?
I love how clear each of his notes are. The music sits easily, without seeming to be hurried or too loud even when it's not exactly pianissimo. It's a different kind of amazing altogether how he can bring out the notes he wants to bring out so clearly and so musically...
I am bowled over just as many of you are... but i just had a thought: why is it so often of either hero worship or demonization? We tend to create teams and choose sides... this certainly plays out in the current politically polarized environment we are in right now.... enough of that; I'm gonna listen again. This is brilliant!
lolz...love it....an assessment of the current political state of things and its effect on the state of the masses subconsciously....and you would rather listen again than keep going...awesome :D
you were right my friend. i have never heard a pianist who has more nuance than ABM. some maybe as good, but that would be a very short list. i am always in awe of his pedaling also.
Debussy is NOT jazz, guys.
DafniElissa 10 months ago
@DafniElissa Jazz is a state of mind. It is incomparible. If you want to call this jazz, if it's in your state of mind to call it jazz, it is.
+ it was composed in the ragtime-era (around 1909). One could call it jazz.
MrZekervan 4 months ago in playlist Claude Debussy
@MrZekervan perhaps I'm a bit too conditioned by my personal hate for jazz! :)
DafniElissa 4 months ago
@DafniElissa If I may make a suggestion then:
I made my "transfer" from classical to jazz through Nina Simone's love me or leave me.Jazz is something we all should embrace. It is awesome because of its variety.
MrZekervan 4 months ago
close your eyes and imagine this as multiple pianists on multiple pianos... the fluidity of all the voices is just amazing. I feel dirty for not having heard of this guy during my playing years, but he gives every pianist something to look up to.
adzbarkley 11 months ago
He knows exactly what he is doing.
TheWanderingNight 1 year ago 2
Wow.... some of the sounds he makes on that piano sound impossible for a piano.... I don't know how he does it. He's a master all right, and not just a master, but A Master.
YuTe3712 1 year ago
Amazing voicing and pedaling. I've learnt this piece before, but this video really makes me rethink how some of the lines should be played...time to learn it a second time!
fuyukimi 1 year ago 3
waw!
joseodelot 1 year ago
The Origin of this piece is very haunting... It has a tendency to keep one's attention.
defek310 1 year ago
I'm a jazz pianist myself but this is so cool!
thepingsound 2 years ago 7
@thepingsound What do you mean 'but?' This IS jazz.
hymnofashes 1 year ago
Genius :)
TheFetusWillEatUs 2 years ago
pleasant to listen him play debussy (and anything else)
kempff95 2 years ago
It's the evenness of tone that's amazing to me-- how each tone matches the others with such clarity. This is something that good woodwind players spend a lifetime trying to do. Michelangeli was a strange, impassioned genius. No wonder that most pianos he found while on tour were not up to his excruciating standard. Could this be one of the reasons he cancelled appearances so often?
ipmoic 3 years ago 6
I don't like what he does with the first page, but I love the way he plays from the B section on.
bewth 3 years ago
I love how clear each of his notes are. The music sits easily, without seeming to be hurried or too loud even when it's not exactly pianissimo. It's a different kind of amazing altogether how he can bring out the notes he wants to bring out so clearly and so musically...
...Gah! He makes it look so easy!
SeitanoShuuki 3 years ago
O___O I am in awe. Right now I'm struggling through "Cathédrale Engloutie" itself, and... wow. Slightly intimidated, bloody genius...
BlueCranberry 4 years ago
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puta el pelo pa feo XD
carolislolis 4 years ago
I am bowled over just as many of you are... but i just had a thought: why is it so often of either hero worship or demonization? We tend to create teams and choose sides... this certainly plays out in the current politically polarized environment we are in right now.... enough of that; I'm gonna listen again. This is brilliant!
apollodionysus7 4 years ago
lolz...love it....an assessment of the current political state of things and its effect on the state of the masses subconsciously....and you would rather listen again than keep going...awesome :D
diefuhreroffunk 2 years ago
beautifully played
afertyus1000 4 years ago
you were right my friend. i have never heard a pianist who has more nuance than ABM. some maybe as good, but that would be a very short list. i am always in awe of his pedaling also.
brianCIM 4 years ago
don't need 2 look good when you're perfect
RE144 4 years ago
The master at work!
257sc07 4 years ago
Exquisite.
antyo 4 years ago
I hear this guy is dead now.
maddpianist 5 years ago
Really? Wow. You've got your finger on the pulse of reality, don't you?
joeyjojo4 4 years ago
fortunately that does n o t affect his way of playing the piano ;)
ASilentMelody 5 years ago
an interesting dance from debussy. yet michelangeli has a really bad hairstyle
rorylion52 5 years ago