Kirill Gerstein
Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert. |
| 0:05.2 | To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts. |
| 0:10.2 | Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. The the The I'm going to be here. |
| 1:03.0 | The one. |
| 1:04.0 | The one. |
| 1:05.0 | The one. The one the and the and the I'm going to be here. the The You're not going to do. The The the the I'm going to do. The I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, |
| 3:45.0 | uh, oh, |
| 3:46.0 | uh, uh, |
| 3:47.0 | the uh, |
| 3:48.0 | the H d' It's lovely to be here at the epicenter of tiny desk. I've seen it so many times and now I'm behind the desk. |
| 4:09.0 | This was obviously the A-flat Major Walt by Chopin and next I will play a piece that actually |
| 4:19.3 | hasn't been heard on recording and not seen on video yet and this is a newly written |
| 4:25.8 | bersus for piano written by Thomas Addis who was just mentioned, and this is from his opera The Exterminating Angel. |
| 4:37.8 | And these are two lovers in a particular moment in the opera that decide they want to hide in the closet and |
| 4:44.8 | sleep with each other and then what happens is they emerge dead in the morning so |
| 4:51.6 | it's a sort of lascivious and morbid and a very beautiful piece. I'm going to Oh, I'm going to see. The The The The you're The The I'm going to do. You're going to do. you're I'm not going to The I'm going to do. So, You're going to do you. Oh, I'm going to Oh, And I'm And speaking of less illuminated corners of the repertoire, I wanted to play a piece by Franz Lisz, perhaps the greatest pianist |
| 9:47.7 | composer that ever touched our instrument and in addition to all the famous pieces there several hundred not famous |
| 9:56.1 | pieces and and here is one relatively late in his life called a quick Hungarian march. The the the I'm going to do. |
| 10:43.0 | The the the the I'm going to do. the the I'm going to do. the The the Oh, I'm going to do. the the The And for dessert for this lunch hour, I thought I'll play an arrangement of a song by Gershwin, one that everybody knows, |
| 13:28.0 | Embraceable You. And this is an arrangement by the great American pianist Earl Wilde. You're not going to be here. |
| 13:53.0 | You know. |
| 13:55.0 | You know? You know? |
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