Saturday, 4/14/12

by musicclipoftheday

The keyboard is the stage on which the fingers dance.

Sviatoslav Richter, piano
TV performance (CBC, Toronto),* 1964

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lagniappe

reading table

even grass and vines
don’t part willingly . . .
lantern for the dead

—Kobayashi Issa, 1822 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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*Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo in E Minor, Op. 116, No. 5
Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14
Maurice Ravel, Jeux d’eau, Alborada del gracioso