Archive for the 'Piano' Category

Schubert’s Impromptu In Gb
Sunday, 14 December, 2008

Tonight I revisited a piano piece which I hadn’t played in at least a year and a half…and it certainly brought back a lot of nice memories.
Schubert’s Impromptu in Gb (Op. 90 No. 3) has to rank as one of my favourite pieces of music. Ever.
And nobody plays it quite like Alfred Brendel.
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High Flying, Adored
Monday, 3 March, 2008

One of my favourite Evita tunes is ”High Flying, Adored”, without a doubt.
I’ve loved it since the first time I heard it many years ago. (Though I can’t really make sense of the title lyric, but ah well.) 
It’s such a charming song. Great for singing.

But anyway, what I really want to say is this: [...]

The Importance Of The Piano
Monday, 9 April, 2007

You know how when you sing a capella as a small group, sometimes (or more often than not, actually) the whole group would all veer off-key in unison, and when at the end of the song you strike the original tonic note on the piano…you realise everyone had unsuspectingly gone off-course at some point in [...]