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The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works
- Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's 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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Janet M. Hawn
- 27-04-15
Wonderful!
My degree is in Classical piano, and, still, I learned so much.
Thank you. I will listen to it again.
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- Numagick
- 14-06-14
Greenberg is the Best
If you could sum up The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works in three words, what would they be?
Greenberg's grasp of the subject is masterful but always entertaining. This is my 11th Greenberg Great Course purchase.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-12-16
A great introduction!
Any additional comments?
I agree with other reviewers - many of the audio samples are of poor quality, both in performance and in volume. Some of them are played on small pianos that do not do passages justice, or are poorly recorded, or are so quiet you can't hear them at all unless you're sitting somewhere very quiet while listening to this (almost never the case for me). I'd assume that if people are buying this audio book they probably care about sound/music/audio. Please get some better samples. The professor, however, is wonderful!!!! Still definitely worth a listen.
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- Jeff Zuckerberg
- 12-06-16
Prof. Greenberg is terrific as always, but!
Any additional comments?
Prof. Greenberg is terrific as always, but Great Courses could have used better recordings of the music!
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- Kindle Customer
- 30-06-15
Brilliant!
As always, professor Greenberg fills this entertaining and informative series with interesting anecdotes, technical explanations, and, last but not least, his own idiosyncratic and witty teaching style.
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- fingerpickerguy
- 09-07-16
Magnificently interesting
Robert Greenberg does an amazing job explaining what could be boring material in a very entertaining way. I learned a lot from this series. I am likely to listen to it again. I learned things that have affected my own compositions. I am going through all of his lectures. Some may find him overbearing, but not me. I think he is terrific.
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- Forest Panzy
- 18-06-16
A Grand & Glorious History
I loved the narrator's "characterizations" helping to make the history come alive. A most fascinating tale of the piano and those composers and pianists who helped develop it into the magnificent instrument it became and still is. A must read for true music appreciation.
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- David
- 21-03-16
Information is OK; sample quality is poor
Introductory info that some might find interesting or amusing, but the many examples are not only poorly recorded, but poorly performed as well.
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- Privet
- 03-10-19
Great Mix of Music and Stories
I'll admit it. I came here for the virtuosos - I love Liszt and Rachmaninoff. However, I loved hearing the stories and music as they relate to the history and development of the piano. I loved hearing about the life of a concert pianist. Perhaps my favorite part was the group of short and well known songs along with their stories and related anecdotes. "Passengers will please refrain / From flushing toilets while the train / Is passing through the station. I love you."
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- Alwin
- 11-06-16
Excellent and fulfilling course!!
The lecturer's style comes across dramatically, but also knowledgable and profound. Ended up enjoying immensely.
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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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- Claudia Martindale
- 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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- Bernadene Erasmus
- 29-09-23
The 23 greatest solo piano works
Dr Greenberg makes music come alive within contexts explained to give depth of understanding to both the composer and his world. Facts interspersed with humour makes for highly entertaining and informative listening- Dr Bernadene Erasmus
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- Anonymous User
- 18-08-23
Enjoyed it immensely
Depth of analysis and the ability to communicate that made the pieces make sense and gives a way of listening to those pieces that I have never had before. And his performances are superb for their feeling and virtuosity!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-23
Really interesting
So way out of my depth as far as understanding music goes. But this shed some light on how amazingly talented some people are/were. Very inspiring, unfortunately about 60 years too late :-)
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