Some piano music

Bach - French Suite No 2 - Richter
What a wonderful recording!

Bach - French Suites 1-6 in recital - Schiff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeBz6BMQVOo&feature=fvwrel

Bach - French Suite No 6 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhSgTR3R7uc&feature=related

Haydn - Late Piano Sonatas - Gould
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKJ0VH9uQA&feature=related

Bach 2 and 3-part inventions - Gould
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZII_OWJcUfY&feature=related

Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier - Richter
All 48!

Equivalencies

As a musician who plays the clarinet, the idea of relating a concept on one instrument to another is vital; we don't want to live in a bubble. Additionally, considering these equivalencies can help bolster our understanding of each individually.

I give the source where I first learned this concept -- not the original source.

The list

Playing your instrument <-> SINGING
Nearly every fine musician and teacher

Air support <-> Bowing
Using a full breath of air in and out <-> Playing tip to frog
Arnold Jacobs

Vibrato <-> Pedal on the piano
Andras Schiff

Tone Quality <-> Color

Sharpness of attack <-> Syllables (Ta, Da, Do, Hu etc)

Phrasing <-> Speech
David McGill, "Sound in Motion"

Can you subdivide that for me? And other questions you should never ask a conductor during a rehearsal

I've been playing in a community band which inspired these and where I have heard a few of asked verbatim! 

1. Can you subdivide that for me?
...because I can't do that for myself
2. What note do I have at...?
You're wasting everyone's time
3. What's the tempo at...?
The entire point of a conductor is to show the tempo...watch and find out!
4. How are you going to conduct...?
...watch and find out!
5. Can I borrow your pencil?
6. Could we practice that under tempo?
Practice on your own time
7. Could you cue me?
...because I don't want to count my rests 
8. Should I play with the soloist or with you?
With the conductor! It's their job to be with the soloist
9. I'm lost, where are we?
10. Was that ok?
I'm with David McGill on this one, never show any weakness to a conductor! 

Der Erlkönig

One of the great things about YouTube is how easy it is to compare recordings to find 'the best' one. There are thousands of examples where one can compare a vocalist and an instrumentalist playing a transcription. I particularly enjoy Schubert's "Der Erlkönig" in both guises -- because they are different pieces.

First the incomparable Fischer-Dieskau and Moore:

The incomparable Richter plays Liszt's transcription, one which is more muscular and fraught than the original.

 

 To compare these two "incomparable" artists....they both sing!