Oh, okay! I would most like to know how to play the piano like Scriabin or Ravel or Chopin or Liszt. I'm assuming that at least one of these guys could play the pieces they wrote and could *improvise* pretty well in the style they wrote. I'll pick that one.
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Replying to @johncarlosbaez @MathPrinceps
i think i understand your reservation. i also thought about not wanting it (getting someone's brain), cuz it occurred to me perhaps i might end up not better off. in past years been thinking about which superhero power is better and philosophy of consequences…1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
the prospect of not stealing a top mathematician's brain is too much to turn down. :D i want it, and worry about consequences later.
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Since I'm a halfway decent mathematician, but a really crummy pianist with ideas on music that I can't realize due to lack of technical skill, I think it would be better for me to get an implant of music theory and virtuosic keyboard technique.
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Replying to @johncarlosbaez @xah_lee
I think if you want an ideal combination of music theory and virtuosic keyboard technique, then perhaps you should choose Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov. His keyboard mastery was Liszt-level, and his grasp of harmony and counterpoint second to none.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @xah_lee
Okay,
@MathPrinceps, sounds good! I find some other composers a bit more interesting, but what I really *need* is keyboard skills and music theory knowledge. I'd settle for being able to play Gaspard de la Nuit like Yuja Wang does.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfwcW07yhSo …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @johncarlosbaez @xah_lee
Since all this is pure fantasy, I'd urge you to aim higher; for Yuja Wang's performance is far from the best I know (which is this one, from Ashkenazy in 1963 -- it's even better than Michelangeli.) http://bit.ly/2I4o1U6 / http://bit.ly/2U1XwpV /http://bit.ly/2Wyv9wh
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Among Wang's contemporaries, the greatest "Gaspard" interpreter is clearly Benjamin Grosvenor: http://bit.ly/2GJXSse / http://bit.ly/31ebbt2 / http://bit.ly/2KfXAvI This is a recording for the ages.
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See also: http://bit.ly/2T3663L If you don't already know Ashish Xiangyi Kumar, then you're in for quite a treat.
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Finally, for proof of Rachmaninov's astounding pianism, there's nothing better than this: http://bit.ly/2YE9CqA / http://bit.ly/2MAbPgh Listen to both discs, and you'll see how impeccable he was; not for nothing did even his most eminent pianist contemporaries bow to him.
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Oh, and just one last thing -- if you're really going to be a die-hard "Gaspard" nerd (like me, the obsessed owner of more than 20 recordings of the work), then you're going to want to listen to this one: http://bit.ly/2LXeZLG N.B.: Perlemuter was Ravel's private student.
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