Alois Hába: Suite for quarter-tone piano No.6, op.88 (1956/1959)

Alois Hába (1893-1973): Suite for quarter-tone piano No.6, op.88 (1956/1959) .
I. Allegro
II. Moderato [01:49]
III. Tempo di Polka [04:06]
IV. Allegretto [05:21]
V. Allegro energico [09:52]
Vladimir Koula, quarter-tone piano
Cover image: painting by Albert Gleizes.
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[@sanicyouth6540]

Cool music.

[@doltifantara]

so wonderful to listen to this sweet quarter tone piano music by Alois Haba

[@stueystuey1962]

Delicate and nuanced. Hits all the right notes at the wrong time or hits all the wrong notes at the right time etc. Balanced.
One year later. Still listening....a really wonderful piece. Masterpiece? Dontknow but it is engaging.

[@01AxelBantov]

Офигенная музыка 😘💋

[@pirsabel]

I would really love to see the performance to that as well! The score is reminiscent of Ives' piece for two pianos, would be very interesting to see it done by just two hands.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Unlike the great majority of the other quarter-performances I have seen on RUclips, this one is explicitly listed as being for quarter-tone piano rather than 2 pianos. I wonder what they had to do to get their hands on the quarter-tone monster piano?
And this one has a distinctly different style and harmonization from the quarter tone (and other) compositions of Ivan Wyschnegradsky.

[@dominiquemanchon9914]

You can see Martine Joste playing Wyschnegradsky's upright quarter-tone piano here: (updated: video not available anymore, unfortunately...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkA1LGe ... e=emb_logo

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@dominiquemanchon9914 Too bad it isn't available any more, but I did see a couple of videos of somebody experimenting on (not playing a particular whole piece) an upright quarter-tone piano. It had 2+1/2 manuals like the monster grand, but it managed to fit into a normal space by having narrow hammers (these were visible in at least one of the videos) and presumably never more than 2 strings per note -- you would have reduced power this way, but for solo playing in a normal house room, or even small auditorium, that would be fine.

[@stueystuey1962]

Killer Diller.

[@__414.88b_]

Nooooooooo my ears

[@Dimivim]

Haha... imagine playing these thirds and listening back to that!!