Awesome! I didn't know Nietzsche composed

just listened again to his great recording, Pam, as Jolana is to upload a Nietzsche recording soon as well... I am curious to find out more about his piano music!

very interesting find, both because the piece itself and it's origins, and because I think it's played with lots of passion

I had forgotten Nietzsche ws a composer, and never bothered to hear any of his music, but this quite moving! Thank you for exposing me to this, and wonderful playing!

Awesome.... had no idea that Nietzsche wrote music... One of my favorite quotes by him: "Only sick music makes money these days... " haha!!!

beautiful interpretation and thanks now i know the music from Nietzsche...

Well I cannot say I have heard the piece before Pam but it was very classical and very dark in its mood and feel, it almost sounds like some more fitting with a funeral than a Hero's lament unless he was a dead one of coarse to which hero's generally are on that score. Wonderfully played here by your fine hands sweetheart and with great feel and expression I felt. Very well done Pam and a great piece to play... 

Wagner  to Franz Liszt:

"Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion. I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the ‘black flag’ that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die"

Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Prelude

Pianos - Susanne Powell, Jacob Abela
Percussion - Tim White, John Arcaro, Ian Cleworth, Brent Miller, Catherine Betts

Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring

Rain Drop

Federico Guglielmo violin I & concertmaster 
Pier Luigi Fabretti oboe (Concerto no.6)
L'Arte dell'Arco
Francesca Bonomo violin I  - Carlo Lazari violin II
Mario Paladin viola - Francesco Galligioni cello - 
Paolo Zuccheri violone/double bass -
Roberto Loreggian harpsichord/chamber organ - 
Ivano Zanenghi theorbo

Recording: 31 March-2 April 2014, Abbazia di Carceri d'Este, Padua, Italy
Producer, recording engineer & editor: Fabio Framba

cd Brilliant Classics (2014)

Vivaldi: Concerto Op.11 No.2 In e RV 277 "Il Favorito" (violin, strings and continuo)- 2.Andante

From a recent concert; strings and harp only.

Gustav Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony #5

ohann Sebastian Bach - Partita for solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. 1720. Chaconne. Hilary Hahn, Violin, 1997.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 - Hilary Hahn

IGOR STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (Suite 1919)
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA)
Nacho de Paz, conductor

LIVE RECORDING (April 2011)
[ RADIO BROADCAST ]

IGOR STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (Suite 1919) / ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS [ 2011 ]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19; Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052

J. S. Bach - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor BWV 1052 - Glenn Gould & Leonard Bernstein (1957)

Heldenkalge, translated as Hero's Lament, was written in 1862. This piece is a good accompaniment to his first book 'The Birth of Tragedy' (1872) and the rest of his existential philosophy. 

The sheet music for this piece may be found here: 
http://imslp.org/wiki/Heldenklage_%28Nietzsche,_Friedrich%29

A useful article about Nietzsche's music can be found here:
http://music.mansfield.edu/media/files/nietzsche/nietzsche-5.pdf

Recorded for The Piano Cloud's (https://www.facebook.com/groups/486549744693031/) Oct/Nov Classical Challenge.

Pamela Chng - Heldenklage by Friedrich Nietzsche

live performance from Harpa Concert House - hommage concert to Glenn Gould on his 80th birthday.

J.S. Bach Partita no 6, Tempo di gavotta - Vikingur Olafsson

“This “Gloria” was gloriously sung by Panthaki, a soprano with a lovely plangent timbre and dazzling coloratura technique…”
-Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette

Handel -  "Et in terra pax" from Gloria

In a world of appearances, music is the only thing-in-itself. It is an expression of my metaphysical being, and though it cannot be understood, it must surely be felt.

To all my friends on SoundCloud, and those I have yet to meet, thank you for connecting with me through your music. If you have music you want me to execute, I will be honoured to do so. It is a pleasure to know you.

About Me:
Had my first piano - a Yamaha C108 acoustic upright - and piano lessons when I was seven. Six years later, I was made to quit, so I left the piano and went on to mix records with a mobile disco I co-founded as a teenager. Became a school teacher, and now teaching classical piano privately. My focus is on music interpretation, tone production and technique. 

My other interests and areas of studies are philosophy, sociology, writing, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and reading. My greatest inspirations are J.S. Bach, Kant, Nietzsche, and Einstein (wow, I just realised they're all Germans).

Thank you for your comments and for listening.

My current recording setup comprises:
Acoustic piano - Yamaha C108 (pre-2010), Kawai NS-15 (2010-2014), Kawai K-25EA (2020-present)
External mic - Blue Yeti
Software - Logic Pro X / Garageband

Pamela Chng - Heldenklage by Friedrich Nietzsche

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