- StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Music-Map - The tourist map of music - StumbleUpon. Kickball - Stop. THE PLAYLIST: MASOCHISTIC PIANISTS. Satanic climaxes, perilous fireworks, duelling fencers: there's nothing quite so seductive to piano students as a nearly unplayable piece of music. Irving Wardle finds some models on iTunes ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Summer 2009 Piano students tend to be difficulty snobs for whom nothing is worth playing unless it’s unplayable.
It’s a thrill akin to bull-fighting to look down at a page of Liszt and then observe some reckless newcomer or leathery old slogger heading into the minefield of double-flats, octave marathons, multiple time-signatures, and copious droppings of demisemiquaver fly-shit. If some music arises from this collision, so much the better, as in the following gladiatorial items.
If they do not shatter your iPod, they may melt your heart. LUTOSLAWSKI: VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI FOR 2 PIANOS Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (Universal 1997)There is no technique to beat Argerich, but for Freire she still raises her game. Picture Credit: gagilas (via Flickr) Everyones Mixtape - StumbleUpon.