So very beautiful, and beautifully played.

Classical

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The Same Smile

Phil Best, virtuoso pianist and composer releases new album - 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

An album of 20 short piano improvisations, occasionally with sections repeated, Phil creates a completely spontaneous outpouring but with a powerful sense of rhythmic unfolding or storytelling that renders even trivial events, dramatic, momentous or pivotal. Nothing is planned or contrived but never whimsical or random. Just true! Phil uses improvised piano music to describe deep inner states - beyond the scope of language - and does so with real precision and clarity.

Forces & Moments

I can’t see you anywhere

Ernesto Cortazar - Our love never dies

One of my favourite pieces! It's slightly strange, with many layers of feeling.

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Chopin - Nocturne Op. 55 No. 2

Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No 2 played by Ethel Leginska 1926 on piano roll Aeolian #70750. The roll converted into a digital form by Dave Kerr 2006. Recorded in 2015 ..and the rec updated** & re-uploaded 14 Mar 2018 by VViljanen (by permission)from playback of the digitally simulated reconstructed original reproducing piano roll, using on its rec. a modeled Grand Blüthner revoiced, reconfigured and the rec. setup made by VV.
ANY KIND OFCOMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Ethel Leginska 1886-1970, was a British pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She was a student of Theodor Leschetizky, later studying composition with Rubin Goldmark and Ernest Bloch, and conducting with Eugene Goossens, Robert Heger and Gennaro Papi.[1] Among her students were harpsichordist Gavin Williamson, James Henry Fields, Daniel Pollack and Bruce Sutherland.[2] She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance and conducting,[3] being the first woman to conduct many of the world's leading orchestras. (source: Wikipedia)
The basic info* of the original reproducing piano roll:
NQCTURNE, Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat
Roll Number: 7075, 70750
Composer/Creator: Chopin
Pianist: Leginska
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.50
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)
**tempo here is 0.97 x that indicated on the digital copy of the roll

Frédèric Chopin: Nocturne op. 9 no 2 in E Flat. Ethel Leginska in 1926, on Aeolian 70750

Prelude

watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro5JoH0y3o&list=RD9ro5JoH0y3o&start_radio=1

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Springtime

We can never tire of this delicious piece!

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Clair de Lune - Debussy

The Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu is one of those iconic pieces of the classical piano repertoire. It is arguably played too much so why have I added my performance? I think the infinite ways a piece can change in the hands of different musicians is actually very interesting. My version is fast but lyrical and I search for an unexaggerated and natural romanticism and warmth.

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Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 - Chopin

Victoria Bragin - F. Chopin: Polonaise E flat minor op. 26 no. 2

Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 1, Op. 23

Michael Lynn - recorder, Kathie Stewart - Flute - with Apollo's Fire

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Telemann - Concerto in E Minor for Flute and Recorder  Allegro

A. Vivaldi - Concerto for Two violins, Cello and String Orchestra: Second Movement

Another dreamy piano improvisation: it's what I do!

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Rare butterfly - improvisation

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.

Chopin - Nocturne Op. 55 No. 2

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