自強之路

許冠傑的這幾首曲子，伴我童年：

天才與白痴

天才白癡往日情

錢錢錢

Alice Sara Ott (1. August 1988 in München) ist eine deutsch-japanische Pianistin.

Alice Sara Ott erlernte, gegen den ursprünglichen Willen ihrer japanischen Mutter, mit vier Jahren das Klavierspiel. Bereits als Kleinkind gewann sie zahlreiche Musikwettbewerbe und Förderpreise, darunter „Jugend musiziert“ und der Most Promising Artist Award in Hamamatsu, Japan. Als jüngste Teilnehmerin überhaupt konnte sie mit 15 Jahren beim Internationalen Klavierwettbewerb Silvio Bengalli in Italien den 1. Preis gewinnen. Sie wurde von Karl-Heinz Kämmerling am Salzburger Mozarteum unterrichtet und trat bereits bei zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Veranstaltungen und Festivals auf, darunter das Classix Festival Braunschweig, die Zürcher Festspiele, das Bachfest Leipzig und die Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sie ist mehrfache Meisterschülerin und Preisträgerin der Internationalen Musikakademie für Solisten (IMAS).

Die Zeitschrift Fono Forum wählte sie zum Nachwuchskünstler des Jahres 2007. Ott, die seit 2008 bei der Deutschen Grammophon als Exklusivkünstlerin unter Vertrag steht, hat CDs aufgenommen mit Stücken von Franz Liszt und Frédéric Chopin. Sie erhielt zahlreiche Förderstipendien, unter anderem von der Degussa-Stiftung, der Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben und der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. 2010 wurde Alice Sara Ott zusammen mit Olga Scheps mit dem ECHO Klassik ausgezeichnet. Ihre jüngere Schwester Mona Asuka Ott ist ebenfalls Pianistin.

Mona Asuka Ott (1991 in München; Künstlername Mona Asuka) ist eine deutsch-japanische Pianistin. Sie ist die jüngere Schwester von Alice Sara Ott.

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Janina Fialkowska, OC (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian classical pianist.

Fialkowska was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Canadian mother (Bridget Todd Fialkowski) and a Polish father (Jerzy Fialkowski), an engineer and Polish army officer who emigrated to Canada in 1945. Her mother was descended from an ancient Canadian family of Scottish-Irish and the Cree, who studied piano in the class of Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris (1935–1939). Fialkowska is the granddaughter of Dr. John Todd, Canada's first professor of parasitology, and great-granddaughter of Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Canadian Bankers Association. She is the cousin of Canadian Politician and former cabinet minister David Anderson and cousin of stage and screen actor Christopher Plummer.
Fialkowska began to study piano at the age of 4 with her mother and in 1960 enrolled in the École Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal. In 1963, at the age of 12, she made her debut as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and began studying with Yvonne Hubert. She pursued her secondary education at the prestigious Montreal girls school The Study, graduating in 1967. The following year, at the age of 17, she simultaneously obtained undergraduate (Baccalauréat) and Maitrise from the Université de Montréal. During this period, she also studied in Paris with virtuoso and teacher Yvonne Lefébure (1966, 1968–1969). In 1969 she was awarded 1st Prize in the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Performers in Canada and travelled occasionally to New York City for private studies with Sasha Gorodnitzki. In 1970, she settled in New York and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music as a student of Sasha Gorodnitzki, later becoming his teaching assistant from 1979–1984. Following a prize-winning performance at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition held in Tel Aviv in 1974, Arthur Rubinstein became her mentor and he launched her international career, hailing her as "a born Chopin interpreter".

Mark Hambourg (1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian-British concert pianist.

Mark Hambourg was the eldest son of the pianist Michael Hambourg (a pupil of Anton Rubinstein), and was brother of the cellist Boris Hambourg and the violinist Jan Hambourg (with whom he played in chamber ensemble as the Hambourg Trio), and of the musical organiser Clement Hambourg (1900–1973). His father was principal of the Voronezh Conservatory, and later a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, so that Mark continued his studies with his father even when he attended that academy.

The family moved to London in 1889, as refugees from the Tsarist regime. There, having been heard by Paderewski, Mark made a debut at the old Princes Hall in July 1890. This was a success, and there was another concert there, and a tour of the provinces. Sponsored largely by Paderewski, Hambourg was sent to study under Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna for three years, arriving there in autumn 1891. There he won the Liszt Scholarship of 500 marks, and made a large number of friends among the artistic circles of Vienna. He made his first appearance as an adult pianist in early 1895, playing Chopin's Concerto No. 1 in E minor under the baton of Hans Richter, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Then, while still a student with Leschetizky, he stood in at short notice (on his master's recommendation) to play Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia under Felix Weingartner, in place of Sophie Menter, who was indisposed. The audience, at first disappointed, was completely won over, and at the banquet which followed, Brahms himself proposed the toast to the young pianist.

In 1895 Hambourg began his first world tour (aged 16), beginning in Australia, where in (Sydney) he was asked to prolong his stay by six weeks. Returning to London, he deputized for Paderewski at a Philharmonic Society concert playing Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor. He first appeared in Paris in 1896, and after that in Brussels and Berlin. He went to the United States in the latter part of 1898, making his New York debut under William Gericke with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and going on to tour the US. He then returned to London, and in 1901 made his first appearances at the Queen's Hall Proms under Henry Wood. Over the next four years he made another American tour and made visits to Poland, Russia and Germany. (He had met Lenin through Felix Moscheles in London in 1900). In 1906 he made a month-long concert visit to South Africa, taking his own piano by precarious means across the Veldt to one remote location. He first toured in Canada in 1909 and later became friends with the Canadian pianist Harold Bradley.

Jan Miłosz Lisiecki (born March 23, 1995) is a Canadian classical pianist of Polish descent. In addition to performing in live concerts, he has been a recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon since 2010.

Life and career
Lisiecki was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Polish parents. He began studying piano at the age of five. Lisiecki had his orchestral debut at the age of 9, and has since performed with orchestras in Canada and internationally, including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Lisiecki has performed with conductors Claudio Abbado, David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Antonio Pappano, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. On January 1, 2010 Lisiecki opened the Chopin 200th Birthday celebrations from the composer’s birthplace, Żelazowa Wola. The same month, he performed Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor at the MIDEM Classical Awards Gala in Cannes, France. Lisiecki performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a hundred thousand people on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as part of the Canada Day 2011 celebrations.
Lisiecki has played at the Royal Albert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, Salle Pleyel, Tonhalle Zürich, Konzerthaus Vienna, and Suntory Hall, and has substituted for pianists such as Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, and Nelson Freire. Lisiecki has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes, Emanuel Ax, and Truls Mørk performing at various concert venues in Armenia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, UK, and the USA. Lisiecki has appeared at festivals including the Verbier Festival, Festival de la Roque d'Antheron, Merano Festival, Chopin and his Europe Festival and many others in Canada and the USA.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 by YP Music
Steinway - Fabbrini (or Fabbrini - Steinway) Piano
I first heard the sound of Hamburg Steinway-Fabbrini piano in Daniel Barenboim's Liszt Recital in Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 28 May 2007, which was released as a DVD in December of that year. I was immediately struck by the varieties and shadings of tone colors, and above all the sheer tonal beauty produced from the piano. At first, I thought that was entirely due to Barenboim's magic touch. (IMHO, Barenboim is more a musician than a pianist and, as much as I admire his pianism, the tone color is probably not his most distinguished characteristic.) Only later, after a little bit of research, I discovered the secrets hidden in the golden letters "Fabbrini" printed on the piano:

Benjamin Grosvenor (born 8 July 1992) is a British classical pianist.

Grosvenor is the youngest of five brothers. His father is an English and Drama teacher, and his mother Rebecca is a piano teacher by profession. Grosvenor began studying the piano with his mother at the age of six. He joined Westcliff High School for Boys in 2003. He now also takes lessons from Christopher Elton in London. Grosvenor studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he had musicianship classes with Daniel-Ben Pienaar and Julian Perkins. At his graduation as BMus in 2012 he received the Queen's Award for Excellence for the best all-round student of the year.

In May 2003, Grosvenor gave his first full recital at a local church. In the same year, he made his first concert appearance performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 with the Westcliff Sinfonia. Since then he has given many high-profile recitals in Europe and North America. Some of the concerts he has played in were at the Royal Albert Hall, St George's, Bristol, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Usher Hall, Carnegie Hall and Symphony Hall.

Grosvenor has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish String Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra, playing works by Mozart, Grieg, Ravel, Britten and Chopin. On 20 May 2009 Grosvenor made his debut with the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery, at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

billy mayerl

William Joseph Mayerl known as Billy Mayerl (May 31, 1902 – March 25, 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his best-known composition, Marigold (1927). He also ran the successful School of Syncopation for whose members he published hundreds of his own arrangements of popular songs.

He also composed works for piano and orchestra, often in suites with evocative names such as the 'Aquarium Suite' (1937), comprising "Willow Moss", "Moorish Idol", "Fantail", and "Whirligig".

Mayerl was born in 1902 on London's Tottenham Court Road, near the West End theatre district. His father, a violin player, attempted to introduce Mayerl to the violin at the age of four but failed. After noticing Mayerl's affinity for the piano he started him with piano lessons soon afterward and by the age of 7 he was studying at the Trinity College of Music, paid for with a series of scholarships. His first major concert was at the age of nine, playing Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. In his teens, he supplemented these lessons by accompanying silent movies and playing at dances.

第一次接觸英文歌，就是聽爸爸給他自己買的一張唱片 Lettermen 的 Goin' Out Of My Head / Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You 混唱：

I Love You Baby

by Frank Sinatra

You're just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you

modern electric chicago blues

Fats Waller, King of Piano Swing
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Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999.

Early life

Manhã de Carnaval

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"Manhã de Carnaval" ("Morning of Carnival"), is a song by Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and lyricist Antônio Maria.
"Manhã de Carnaval" appeared as a principal theme in the 1959 Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro) by French director Marcel Camus. The film's soundtrack also included songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, as well as another composition by Bonfá ("Samba de Orfeu"). "Manhã de Carnaval" appears in multiple scenes in the film, including versions sung or hummed by both the principal characters (Orfeu and Euridice), as well as an instrumental version, so that the song has been described as the "main" musical theme of the film. In the portion of the film in which the song is sung by the character Orfeu, portrayed by Breno Mello, the song was dubbed by Agostinho dos Santos. The song was initially rejected for inclusion in the film by Camus, but Bonfá was able to convince the director that the music for Manhã de Carnaval was superior to the song Bonfá composed as a replacement. Orfeu Negro was an international success (winning, for example, an Academy Award in 1960), and brought the song to a large audience.

德語：Georg Anton Benda，捷克語：Jiří Antonín Benda，1722年6月30日－1795年11月1日，波西米亞作曲家，小提琴家。早年在波茨坦隨其兄法蘭茲·班達工作，1749 後年到哥達（Gotha，德國圖林根州中部的城市。在愛爾福特西邊，圖林根林山北部邊緣) 任職終身。與其兄不同，蓋歐格·安東·班達主要是一位聲樂作曲家，他的歌劇在當時獲得很高的評價，其鋼琴奏鳴曲亦是相當有特色。

改作自 維基

wiki says:

"Ode to Joy" (German: "An die Freude" [an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə], first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken") is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza. It is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824. Beethoven's text does not use the entirety of Schiller's poem, and reorders some sections. His tune (but not Schiller's words) was adopted as the Anthem of Europe by the Council of Europe in 1972 and subsequently the European Union.

Schiller wrote the first version of the poem when he was staying in Gohlis, Leipzig. In the year 1785 from the beginning of May till mid September, he stayed with his publisher Georg Joachim Göschen in Leipzig and wrote "An die Freude" along with his play Don Carlos.
Schiller later made some revisions to the poem which was then republished posthumously in 1808, and it was this latter version that forms the basis for Beethoven's setting. Despite the lasting popularity of the ode, Schiller himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in an 1800 letter to his long-time friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to write the ode).

Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires (Portuguese: [mɐˈɾiɐ ʒwɐ̃ũ̯ ˈpiɾɨʃ]; born 23 July 1944) is a classical pianist.

Pires was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart piano concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Campos Coelho at the Lisbon Conservatory, taking courses in composition, theory, and history of music. She continued her studies in Germany, first in the Musikakademie of Munich with Rosl Schmidt and then in Hanover with Karl Engel.

International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels]]. Subsequently she performed with major orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Israel and Japan, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and other classical and romantic composers.

Her professionalism achieved worldwide recognition when a film (from 1999) was drawn to the attention of the press and went viral in 2013. At the start of a lunchtime concert in Amsterdam, she realised that she had rehearsed for a different Mozart concerto from the one the orchestra had started playing; quickly recovering, she played the concerto from memory.

Gianluca Luisi (born 1970 in Osimo) is an Italian pianist known for his interpretations of J. S. Bach. whose complete The Well-Tempered Clavier he recorded. Luisi studied at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro under the guidance of Franco Scala and, later, at the piano Academy in Imola with Giovanni Valentini, Boris Petrushansky and Piero Rattalino. Luisi now teaches at the Recanati Piano Academy of the Marche.

Luisi won many national and international Piano competition including: the "Città dell’Aquila" and the Mozart prize (Italy) in 1996, the Genzano Competition in Rome (Italy) first prize, the Cesenatico Competition first prize (Italy), the Jeunesse musicales Competition (Italy) first prize (1998), the Torneo Internazionale di Musica, TIM (Roma), first prize (1999), and more.
He also won the second prize at the "Casella" International Competition in Naples and in 2001 he won the first prize in the "J.S.Bach Piano International Competition" in Saarbrücken, Germany (54 pianists from 26 countries took part).

moto perpetuo: a fast instrumental passage made up of notes of equal length (collins)

玩在提琴上，已是超絕技；玩在小喇叭上，根本變態啊！這世上，除了 sergei，我看只有 mendez 能做到了。偉大！請欣賞：

超絕技的展現~

幾首喜歡的蕭邦馬厝卡舞曲：

Mazurkas, Op. 7: I. Vivace in B-Flat Major 
Mazurkas, Op. 17: IV. Lento, ma non troppo in A Minor
Mazurkas, Op. 24: II. Allegro non troppo in C Major 

Méditation

Jules Massenet photographed by Nadar.
"Méditation" (pronounced [meditasjɔ̃]) is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra. The opera premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on March 16, 1894.

he Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God. It is during a time of reflection following the encounter that the Méditation is played by the orchestra. In the second scene of Act II, following the Méditation, Thaïs tells Athanaël that she will follow him to the desert.

Sergei Mikhailovich Nakariakov (Russian: Серге́й Михайлович Накаряков; born May 10, 1977 in Gorky) is a Russian virtuoso trumpeter who came to prominence in the late 1990s. He released his first CD recording (including works by Ravel, Gershwin and Arban's The Carnival of Venice) in 1992 at the age of 15.

~wiki

his most famous venice carnival

moto perpetuo