In the HandsPaul Cantrell's music weblog: Original recordings of piano music old and new, classical and otherwise, from a devoted amateur. The podcast features complete pieces -- not just snippets! -- and spoken commentary. Music ranges from Chopin, Brahms, Schubert and Schumann to avante-garde improvisations.Brahms Intermezzo 116.4 (remastered)- October 31, 2005 This was the first Brahms I ever learned to play. It looked to me like a relatively easy piece, simply because it doesn&8217;t have all that many notes &8212; but I was wrong: never having played Brahms, I didn&8217;t recognize the difficulty that was there. Brahms doesn&8217;t always divide his music into clear layers of melody and accompaniment; he&8217;ll have bits of melodic thread appearing in different voices, different layers. None of these threads is complete in itself, but they form a..http://innig.net/music/inthehands/2005/10/31/101/ In a Perfectly Wounded Sky (remastered)- October 20, 2005 Here&8217;s an older piece of mine, newly remastered. I&8217;ve gone back and forth in the past on whether I like this one, but I like it very much today, so I&8217;m publishing it! The title is based on my mishearing of a Tori Amos lyric (from Cruel). I generally go for titles that are evocative and somehow seem to fit, without actually having any clear meaning that listeners will try to impose on the piece &8212; I want the title to be an opening into the music, not a box to stuff it...http://innig.net/music/inthehands/2005/10/20/100/ Schubert D946.1, played by Don Betts- October 12, 2005 I&8217;m a fellow of diverse musical tastes, and there are a great many composers I love who don&8217;t appear in the meager list over on the right of this page. So it&8217;s a delight to post this recording, because I get to add a &8220;Schubert&8221; category. Yay for Schubert! This is another one of the recordings I made in the living room of my teacher, Don Betts. He&8217;s playing a little gem of Schubert&8217;s that one doesn&8217;t hear often &8212; in fact, I&8217;d never heard it at...http://innig.net/music/inthehands/2005/10/12/99/ |