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Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Op 27 # 2 Mov 3 Played by Valentina Lisitsa

My take on Chopin's saddest little prelude.  Two and a half minutes of ache.


Chopin Prelude No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 28

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 K. 415 I. Allegro

Beethoven  Moonlight  Sonata Op 27   2 Mov 1, 2 Played by Valentina Lisitsa

Concert for the Armenian Community in Jerusalem, May 2014.

Khachaturian Violin Concerto, Jenny Hünigen, JSO, Frédéric Chaslin

J.S.Bach - Concerto Nr. 5  in F minor, BWV 1056
II. Largo
London Chamber Group - Conductor: Harry Curtis
Piano: Olaf Eliasson


J.S.Bach - Keyboard concerto Nr. 5  in F minor - Olaf Eliasson - II. Largo

This piece has an outdoor, pastoral feel, its long meandering melodic phrases suggestive of an English riverscape (although the piece was written in Dublin). The meteorological conditions vary from the warm sunny opening to something rather more blustery mid-way through.

SWW set 3 no1

Miley Cyrus - When I look at you, lovely piano²

The fabulous pianist GraceAnn Cummings premiering my original solo piano piece "Impromptu in Black" in Seattle, Feb 3 2024. The show was called "Impromptu", a multi media piano concert that beautifully connects the idea of impromptu and the qualities of water.

Impromptu in Black - solo piano

emotional valse sentimentale played on Roland RD 800

Valse sentimentale Opus 51 Nr 6 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - new record

one famous valse composed by P. I. Tschaikowsky
from my serie "romantic piano II"
played on a Steinway B-211 piano

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky - Valse sentimentale Opus 51 Nr 6  Steinway B-211 piano

Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 4

Facet 5

Chopin's G minor Ballade is one of those pieces that is played a great deal and often rather mangled by exaggerated rubato and mannered interpretation. I love to reveal the unvarnished truth about music, to reveal its natural patterns and structure. For me, allowing the rhythm and melodic lines to flow with natural flexibility only adds to the extraordinary cathartic beauty of Chopin's refined yet emotional and virtuoso composition.

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Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

The joy we feel at the sighting of a butterfly when the warm weather arrives after the long, dark cold of winter is a very special feeling. Music can bring us this joy whenever we need it!

First Butterfly of Spring

First Butterfly Of Spring

For Phil, traditional classical piano training was something of a straitjacket. He rebelled from a very young age by teaching himself to improvise and play by ear. Fundamentally gentle by nature - he’s a vegan and life-long meditator - the competitive world of classical piano seemed brutal. Phil plays music simply for the love of it and nothing else matters to him. He’s not interested in definitive interpretations or who-can-play-the-fastest performances: what Phil offers is real musical sense, through delivering rhythm and groove, melody and harmony with depth, clarity and unconventional intelligibility.

Phil plays in a refreshingly unpretentious and accessible way, telling musical stories with vivid, straightforward passion. Being a Yorkshireman, he says it how it is, and music for him is profound solace, catharsis and joy: so this is what he offers. Being extraordinarily fluent in the language of music on the keys, he loves to improvise freely, allowing the music to pour forth spontaneously, from a place of deep body-and-soul consciousness. And he aims to make the music of Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and every piece he plays, come from this place of real transformation and healing.

Ballade in G minor op. 23 - Chopin

Phil Best

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