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Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.
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Keyboard Conversations
- The Power and Passion of Beethoven
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- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.
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- Original Recording
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A revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time, Beethoven used the piano as his personal musical laboratory. The piano sonata became, more than any other genre of music, a place where he could experiment with harmony, motivic development, the contextual use of form, and, most important, his developing view of music as a self-expressive art.Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas include some of his most popular works as well as some of his most experimental.
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- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 555
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Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony.
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- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
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- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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The strangest rabbit hole yet!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great Survey of Mahler's Life and Major Works
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 163
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 146
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Johannes Brahms was a man of contrasts. His serious Teutonic music was balanced by joyful dance music. His kindness to working people with a biting, malicious wit reserved for those he encountered in artistic and aristocratic circles. Yet you can know this enigmatic genius though this 8-lecture series, which uses biographical information and musical commentary to link the complexities of Brahms the man with the electrifying music of Brahms the composer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First class introduction to a wonderful composer
- By Jane on 08-20-13
Publisher's Summary
Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers. In this edition, Jeffrey Siegel discusses Mozart and other classical composers, including:
By Johann Christian Bach:
- Sonata in D major, Op. No. 2By Clement:
- Sonata in F minor, Op. 14, No. 3By Salieri:
- Six Concert Pieces (Unpublished)By Haydn:
- Fantasy in C major
- Hob, XVII, No. 4By Mozart:
- Fantasy in D minor, K.397
Critic Reviews
"His performances were expressive and full of passion...This is an artist who means every note he plays." (The New York Times)
"Pianistic eloquence with a special gift for commentary." (The Washington Post)
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- 01-04-18
A FRAUD !!
"WHERE'S THE MOZART ??!! JUST OVER 5 MINUTES OF HIS MUSIC. EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED, MR "PIANIST"...
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