Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music?

Posted by samh748 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've only recently started to appreciate piano music and would love to increase my repertoire.

I'm open to anything, from classical to contemporary, pop to metal, doesn't have to be purely instrumentals either.

Look forward to hearing any and all of your recommendations!

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by defrost on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:39AM (#34158541)

Wim Mertens has some great piano compositions, although they also tend to sneak in a few strings and voices.

eg:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77R2TuScWU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybqjwf8w8s

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by chrism238 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:31AM (#34158488)

“Blurred Lines & Rape Me” by Reb Fountain and Amanda Palmer (YouTube for it).

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by tornadofart on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:46AM (#34158585)

Erik Satie for "modern and intellectual, but also highly digestible".

Arvo Pärt's "Alina" for "full of sadness, but also breathtakingly beautiful".

Glenn Gould's interpretation of Bach's "das wohltemperierte Klavier". A titan (in the Newtonian sense) of piano interpreting the compositions of the perhaps, along with Mozart, greatest composer of western baroque music. Piano was never the same again.

Anything played by Martha Argerich. Also highly recommendable on video. She is one with the instrument to a degree that is absolutely staggering. No technical prowess resists her, and is always played with intuitive grace and light-handedness, because she never practices. She doesn't have to, she just plays.

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by shpx on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:04AM (#34158709)

Frédéric Chopin

https://open.spotify.com/album/4marX3D0PVQkL8a08MS4mP

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by beardyw on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:34AM (#34159190)

Henrik Lindstrand - Leken

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by samh748 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:21AM (#34159878)

Thank you all for the recs! This is already plenty to get me started. Really appreciate it!

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by bediger4000 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:48AM (#34160893)

Philip Glass, Metamorphosis

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Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for emotive piano music? by _spduchamp on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:08PM (#34176531)

Check out Jean-Michel Blais. I love his very stripped down intimate recordings.

Also I highly recommend diving into some Oscar Peterson.

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