Many pieces of Western art music are inspired by or drawn directly from the nomadic itinerant people who call themselves Romani. Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 #5, Zigeuner (“Gypsy”), is no less problematically titled, but it might be the shortest of them all. #dailypiano #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/nLcDsusxZjM

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Drizzly café morning listening to more new-to-my-ears Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, some of them astonishing. Here’s one. I doubt much of the magic made its way into my third reading, but my body’s still vibrating as I type this.

Op. 62 #5 Drømmesyn (Phantom).

https://youtu.be/ii16kGewt1Y

#dailypiano #piano #classicalpiano #romanticism #pianominiature #pianominiatures #grieg

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It’s been a solid couple #dailypiano weeks of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. I sorta want to get into something else. But when flipping through scores keeps turning up gems I’ve not yet heard, it’s hard to step away.

Here’s another: Op. 43 #5 Erotikk (“Erotikon”). https://youtu.be/djzrKDOFFjY

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Today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature was selected from Grieg’s Lyric Pieces to appeal maximally to my dad’s musical tastes, and was embargoed until he and I could listen to it together — several times. Success!

Grieg’s Op. 65 #5 I balladetone (“Ballad”): https://youtu.be/eeAw66MIqIU

#piano #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #romanticism #grieg

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Continuing my discovery-by-hands of Grieg’s Op. 12 Lyric Pieces, here’s #5 Folkevise (“Popular melody”). Characteristic of this thread, we really miss that C#. #piano #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #romanticism #grieg

https://youtu.be/lDp4mZs39Kw

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Not exactly a miniature.
Not much smooth to listen to.
Not entirely sensible without that C sharp.
But here and there I heard some sounds I needed to hear.
For today, that’s enough.

The slow movement from Bowen’s Piano Sonata #5:

https://youtu.be/sGyd9J8k6k0

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Yesterday, after I lamented my home country having lost far more at its own hand than it ever lost to England, my home town became national news.

Today, more music. The next of Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes — the first w/subtitle — is #5, “Pájaro triste”.

https://youtu.be/HM19JI1cXeM

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The composer I’m most influenced by, of course, is Medtner. You might be surprised to learn, after weeks of Scriabin’s tiniest gems, that my second-most composer is someone else: Mompou.

Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the Canço from Mompou’s Cançons i danses #5.

https://youtu.be/_1Z7Zep0WcM

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