Tonight, this is what I have been listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2ypkzQ5qw
Great voice on her, and this whole album is very well done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRS3y3y_2k
Again, more Haggard, as I usually post in these threads. These guys and gals are some of my favorites. I love this sort of blend in music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk&feature=related
And Wilhelm Kempff, the man who I think of when I think of Piano. When I hear Beethoven in my head, I hear this man playing his works. Listen to the silence behind his strokes. Hear the deep void perched just beyond the music, and understand that the apparent simplicity of this musical passage is entirely false. There are thousands of ways to play it, but only one way sounds like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg&feature=related
Here we observe him playing the third movement, and find that he extracts something else, something other than that which is extracted by more common pianists from the piece. There again is an underlying emotion that is absent from most recordings of this music, and underlying darkness and frustration. The man knows, or knew, how to pace, how to extract rather than regurgitate. I see Beethoven playing in such a manner of frustration and genius. I see his anger and peace being starkly contrasted, starkly timed, to please his tortured ears.
God whispers in your ear, he shouts into mine! Never since the death of the man himself can this have been so painfully conveyed.
Cheers,
Kennith
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