Johann Sebastian Bach ~ The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One: Prelude & Fugue II in c minor
Over the coming months, I will be sharing my videos home-recorded on the venerable Steinway CD207 of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier. I have long maintained that there is more to learn about playing the piano from the study of Bach’s music; knowledge, insight, inspiration and imaginative freedom that can be applied to all piano music….
Johann Sebastian Bach ~ The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One: Prelude & Fugue I in C Major
Over the coming months, I will be sharing my videos home-recorded on the venerable Steinway CD207 of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier. I have long maintained that there is more to learn about playing the piano from the study of Bach’s music; knowledge, insight, inspiration and imaginative freedom that can be applied to all piano music….
Tears For Fears (arrO’Riley) ~ Woman In Chains
It’s taken me decades to master this 80’s anthem, a favorite and essential arrangement for my darling of many years; a favorite song of hers. I’d originally planned on playing this on Arielle, my concert grand, but my completely rebuilt mahogony 121-year-old Steinway B, Clarice, was clearly the hardest rocking piano in the house. Good…
Radiohead (arrO’Riley) ~ Glass Eyes
I love my Steinway Concert Grand, CD207, house piano at NYC’s 92nd St. Y in the 80’s when she was born, then became Alicia Delarrocha’s favorite piano in NY, finally retired after touring with Billy Joel, and now come to rest in the Hollywood Hills. Hence, these OneTake captures on my favorite piano in the…
Video of complete masterclass @Schmitt Music, Englewood, CO, 2019.04.19
Thanks to Steve Valdek and Barry Damerell @Schmitt Music, Denver’s Steinway dealer, for capturing this class in its entirety. The kids were great and game for trying new things. This was followed next day by my all-Liszt recital for Englewood Arts, on the beautiful Steinway D on loan from the Colorado Symphony, lovingly and expertly…
An apology
Re: the rally in Tampa, I had a teaching moment, caught up in the outrage viewing this inchoate and virulent mob, the President* egging them on in his dangerously autocratic framing of the press as the ‘enemy of the people’, I posted the spittle-flecked footage and made a good pun on ‘euphemism’ that I quickly…
Mozart Concerto in Eb Major, K. 482 with Maestro John DeMain and the Madison Symphony
So thrilled to be with John DeMain and the wonderful Madison Symphony for this weekend of performances, May 4-6, of my favorite Mozart Concerto. Years ago, when I was learning it, I confided to Claude Frank that I was filling in and writing a cadenza for the last movement. He feigned shock: “the piece already…
Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique extended @HERE thru mid-July!
So thrilled to be part of this amazing production. I’m convinced that this iteration of Symphonie Fantastique, through the passion and vision of Basil Twist and Franz Liszt will be known as the best of all possible. I love our cast of puppeteers, our incredibly dedicated crew, and the ardent support of all the folks…
J.S. Bach ~ Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. I: live tracks from the road
Having lost my hard drive a couple months back, I’m just now getting around to sharing some live takes from my breakpiece slot on live tapings of my radio show. I’ve decided ProTools is way too consumer-unfriendly to re-up, so I’m afraid I’m behind a steep learning curve getting LogicPro up and running. But thanks…
Solo recital @Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck, NY 2017.12.02
My program for this show will be as follows: Radiohead: Let Down Radiohead: How I Made My Millions Radiohead: Knives Out Red House Painters: Void Radiohead: Glass Eyes Robert Pollard: Sea of Dead Elliott Smith: True Love Radiohead: Paranoid Android intermission J.S. Bach: WTC Bk I, Prelude & Fugue in Bb minor J.S. Bach: WTC…