Biophysical research by de Manzano, Theorell, Harmat and Ullen on the psychophysiology of flow during piano playing found that classic pianists who played piano pieces several times over can drop into a flow state.
BROOKVILLE Tilles Center for the Performing Arts Emanuel Ax, classical pianist.
Former classical pianist.
SUMMER STARS CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES July 7: Di Wu, concert pianist; July 14: "Classic Brahms," featuring Peter Winograd, violin; Wolfram Koessel, cello; Thomas Muraco, cello and piano.
This is not a classic brains-and-brawn pianist, a la Jeremy Denk or Garrick Ohlsson.
Coltrane's former group was a classic quartet (featuring the pianist McCoy Tyner, the bassist Jimmy Garrison, and the drummer Elvin Jones).
Fresh baked scones with cream and jam were light and crusty, and the handsome pianist playing classic favorites evoked the glory of the room.
I am now discovering extremely old recordings of pianists performing classic works by Brahms, Chopin, Clara Schumann and other romantic composers.
Working through a brace of the pianist's classics and Monk-ified standards ("Blue Monk," "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"), the quartet kicks up a dust storm of idiosyncratic invention.
There are classic recordings by legendary pianists who performed the Chopin études in concert, including Alfred Cortot's elegant, if imperfect, accounts from the 1930s, and the tasteful, technically exquisite recordings by Claudio Arrau from the '50s.
