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The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
The piano is the most popular solo concert instrument in Western music. One of the key reasons is the fact that it has inspired many of the greatest masterpieces in the concert repertoire. To study these masterworks and to understand their genius and lasting appeal is to know one of the greatest accomplishments of Western culture, works that give great pleasure even as they deepen your insight into the meaning of music.
The 23 works you'll study are carefully chosen to highlight the most important compositional and pianistic achievements in the solo piano tradition.
These 24 enthralling lectures by Professor Greenberg take you through more than 200 years of piano music. Beginning with the monumental figure of Bach, followed by Mozart and Beethoven, you experience the piano music of such 19th-century masters as Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, before moving forward to visionary modernists including Scriabin, Debussy, and Prokofiev. Each lecture presents a single work in a fresh, accessible encounter with its musical substance, welcoming listeners new to concert music as well as experienced concert music lovers.
In addition to your study of the music, the lectures treat you to a rich panorama of music history. You dig deeply into the artistic and cultural environments that the compositions reflect, shedding light on what inspired these great works and how they were written. As a third layer of the course, you delve into the fascinating history of the piano itself, uncovering the ways in which the evolution of the instrument directly influenced the music that composers wrote for it.
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- Jacob
- 29-09-16
Less is more
To much"I" in this audiobook. While the contents of it are good, the performance is just too much. This book is about piano pieces, right? Well then, for the sake of pedagogy, the narrator would do a bit better if he refrained from for example doing an Elmer Fudd voice, referring to Beethoven as one of the "B Boys", throwing in his own cheeky comments every now and then. Which come out "to my ears" contrived, and simply to much. I'm not saying "be super serious" I'm just saying that his sense of humour too often came out cheesy instead of entertaining. (no offence meant, that's just a personal opinion)
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- Maria
- 30-11-18
Why so serious?
Holy damn, why does the narrator sound so incredibly angry right from the start? I wanted to learn about amazing piano works, not listen to an angry tirade about what makes a concert pianist. Why am I being shouted at? What did I do wrong?
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- Rebecca
- 17-10-13
Great listening.
Wonderful course which I'm only one-third of the way through. I've learnt so much through this enthusiastic exploration of the composers' music. How satisfying it must be to be a music buff. This value for money.
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- Manish
- 01-10-19
Best Classical Piano
This is brilliant. A combination of beautiful music, history and witty anecdotes. I was unsure about getting this but now I'll get all of them!
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- Felixstones
- 02-12-17
Laugh and learn.
I am not qualified to comment on the musical merits of the course. I can't read a note of notation, nor can I play a tune on any instrument. So why listen to it? There are some pieces of piano music that I love above all others and I want to know why they grab me by the short and curlies while others leave me unmoved? I thought I'd start here in quest to understand. The course hasn't answered the question. I didn't expect it to. But I learned way more than I expected to. And I had many good laughs along the way. This is not stodgy music theory. This is education at its best, delivered with passion, humour and a good turn of phrase. I loved it and my understanding of the art is the better for it. Thank you professor.
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- C Martin
- 29-04-23
My favourite lecture of all ‘Great Master’ series
So incredibly informative with so much detail to each composer and his composition. Will definitely re-listen to the entire lecture as it was so much information to remember for the first round..
Thank you Robert Greenberg, you are brilliant!!
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- S. Moorcroft
- 27-03-21
A Top Rate Communicator
I love the lecturer of this course, he communicats with such verve and enthusiasm, I learned so much. Introduces me to Liszt, Debussy and Schubert, and enhanced my appreciation of Beethoven.
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- Mr Chris Beesley
- 12-01-18
5 stars not enough
An exceptional audio book so expertly yet without pretentiousness. A joy that as a very new student to piano has opened up a world of music I didn't know about.
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- Florentino Quintero
- 28-08-17
As usual, Profe, Greenberg did it again!
A passionate subject made easy to understand for non professionals is not and easy task. I enjoyed and learned a lot.
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