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Wonderful playing!!!

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Hello, I have been searching for this music for a while and happened upon this video( which is pretty amazing:), do you still know what website has the music for free? My e-mail is machina34@gmail.com

ShortShang 1 year ago

I am so fortunate.I have an old huge pages edition from the 1950's why my teacher a pupil of Cortot ever thought enough of me to give this score to me i will never know. I can't even play the Chopin &Debussy etudes well! anyway .I have it now .It is heavy.Maybe next we can find Herma some where or an old edition of second Boulez sonata!

lovesGenet 1 year ago

wow tom this is by far the best....cant wait to hear you play our messiaen piece!!!!

bagdad4 2 years ago

Hi Thomas. You are a versatile musician - I love how you can do honour to the grace and beauty of the Haydn sonata - or do a masterful interpretation of Messiaen! They're very different, aren't they? (I'm just getting to know Messiaen and am really starting to appreciate him, I'm pleased to say!) Thanks for posting this!!

margyoseven 3 years ago

Hi Margaret, thanks for the kind comment! Yes, I think Haydn and Messaien are quite different, when I play both of them the experience certainly is... Messiaen's music is clearly structured, but and it has scope and a rawness of feeling and expression. The sounds that he creates are amazing too! Haydn's music on the other hand, is subtle and refined, and is probably more intellectual. He has a wonderful interplay of colours and textures in his music.

I really love both composers!

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Hey Thomas! Do you have the score of the "Regard de La Vierge"? :D Hard to find, LOL.

jannokas85 3 years ago

Hi Jan, there is a website where you can get all the music for "Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus" free, youtube wont let me post the URL here so i'll send you a message.

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Hi Thomas. This is a wonderful performance. You really seem to understand Messiaen's music and I tell you not many performances communicate the power as well as you do. I was wondering if I could have the name of that website where I can get the score of the Vingt Regards. Thanks.

kevalkeval1993 3 years ago

Kevalkeval1993 thanks for your kind words, its very encouraging for me to hear these things. Yes, i think Messiaen's music does have a real significance/power in it, you can see it just by looking at the score, and all the pianist has to do, is take it seriously and let the music speak for itself!

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Great...Your sense of direction in Messiaen's Music says a lot for your musicianship and does a lot for the credibility of this music being 'music'. I love Messiaen's works including the Exotic Birds for piano and orchestra and I can't wait to here you play it in concert someday! Again thank you for being a friend of mine and tell Hal I said "Hey there!"

4444matthew4444 3 years ago

Hi Matthew, thanks for the generous comment and for being a friend too.

Actually Messiaen makes the sense of direction in his music very clear through numerous tempo and dynamic markings, making it relatively easy for us pianists... Anyway, hope you are fine, and your music studies are going well.

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

You had a wonderful performance!

pianogirl98 3 years ago

Thanks Vivian :)

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Thomas - in much the same way Salvador Dali interpreted Vermeer's "Lace Maker", perhaps Regard de l'etoile could be seen/heard as Messiaen's interpretation of Chopin's C# minor Scherzo - ??

Just a thought.....

PhillipLWilcher 3 years ago

If this is the case it certainly says a lot for Messiaen, being able to achieve a similar impression with a piece that is half the length and has about a quarter of the notes of the scherzo!

Its an interesting comparison.

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Well, it may not be an absolute case, but I was reliving your performance earlier this morning - playing it through in my head whilst out walking at 5.00 am - and the Chopin C#minor Scherzo took over. Way led on to way and I felt a direct correlation between the two. But yes, both Chopin and Messiaen write economically and as a result elevate what they do. Less is more!

PhillipLWilcher 3 years ago

Oh - and that economy of style and elevation is also in Bach. So there you have it : Bach, Chopin and Messiaen! Quite a coverage across the board with just those three - yes??

PhillipLWilcher 3 years ago

Yes, it always comes back to Bach doesn't it. You know my impression of Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus, as a whole is that they are like Messiaen's version of the the B minor Mass, they may not sound similar but they are of that scope. I wonder how Yudina would have played them, now that would have been cosmic!!!

ThomasJBromley 3 years ago

Just listening to 12 of the 48 from Book 1 last night flawed me! Everything is there. The Eb minor prelude and fugue! When I worked at the ABC there was a portrait of Bach on the wall with a caption reading : Olivier who?

Imagine each fugue of Bach's being prefaced by a Chopin Prelude in the same key or a prelude of Bach's followed by a Chopin Etude, same key! Insert the Revolutionary Etude as movt. in the C minor Partita!Consider Chopin's Op 10 No. 4 - it's really a two part invention!

PhillipLWilcher 3 years ago