Hey Sup Forums, I've recently begun learning piano as one of my college classes. I really want to start listening to more piano music, partly because I want some inspiration to keep me going when I struggle with classics like "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "Row Row Row Your Boat," and partly because it's a really expressive instrument I barely paid any attention to until now.
The only pianist I really knew of before now was Chick Corea, but I really like his stuff. I can only listen to so many covers of anime OP/EDs (covers of KLK's Blumenkranz are great though). Do you guys have any suggestions, or an infographic I can check out, for piano-centric/exclusive music?
>I can only listen to so many covers of anime OP/EDs (covers of KLK's Blumenkranz are great though). How about listening to real piano music. youtube.com/watch?v=qlFT1QGgu6Q
Henry Fisher
>How about listening to real piano music. Why do you think I made the thread?
Thanks for the link though, I appreciate it.
Robert Torres
>Why do you think I made the thread? :) Sorry, I'm a dick from years of Sup Forums and no real friends. Maybe if you browse the classical threads you will see some good recommendations.
Art Tatum Bud Powell Bill Evans Herbie Hancock Keith Jarrett Brad Mehldau David Kikoski
Dylan Ramirez
>have regular access to a high-quality Steinway baby grand piano and a recording setup >use it only to play anime covers on youtube youtu.be/CfD8embOaHQ
If you want some interpreters: Barenboim, Zimerman, Rubinstein.
You can also listen to Yiruma. His songs are beautiful. Very very simple, so maybe you could try learning one of them when you are a bit more advanced. "River flows in you" is one of the first pieces I ever learned by myself.
Damn, this is catchy. I haven't made any plans to see the movie but I might have to now.
Lincoln Cooper
Start with these Beethoven piano sonatas: 8 (Pathetique), 14 (Moonlight), 17 (Tempest), 23 (Appassionata), 29 (Hammerklavier), 30, 31 and 32 (no nickname). The last 4 are the toughest ones to understand, listen to them after having memorized and internalized the earlier sonatas I've mentioned.
These sonatas are the most accessible ones by Beethoven. I'm pretty sure that you will often have troubles with his 2nd movements (they're usually mellow, in a major key at a slow tempo), but everything else should blow your mind. The first sonata imho should be the Appassionata, it's the easiest one to listen to and the 3rd movement will surely catch your attention. Listen to it multiple times, they're somewhat complex and you will miss most of it.
Also keep in mind that they're actual masterpieces and that they've been played extensively by every living classical pianist of the last 200 years, therefore give some slack to him, it will worth it.
youtube.com/watch?v=cHECZiDs1b8 Listen to this, and when you do it don't do anything else. Don't fucking multitask, this is high art, you should devote your entire attention to what you're listening to.
Noah Turner
Thanks user, this looks pretty cool.
>Listen to this, and when you do it don't do anything else. Don't fucking multitask, this is high art, you should devote your entire attention to what you're listening to. I listen to a lot of music and I appreciate the advice but this is my first time trying to listen to or find piano music, not my first time venturing out of the Billboard Hot 100.
Carson Fisher
I wasn't trying to be patronising, it's just better being safe than sorry.
His Appassionata is my 2nd favourite Appassionata, the first one being the Arrau's one, but honestly most of his recordings are pretty low quality, that's why I linked to him a 1995 Ashkenazy performance.
James Hall
>Michel Camilo - Caribe That's some good jazzy stuff.
