Samuel Barber: Excursions, Op. 20 (w. Score) 

Barber had an exquisite musical imagination. This is one of my favourite piano pieces.

I’ve been playing Excursions No. 1 for five months and, although it may sound fun to play, trying to imitate the beautiful sound that most performers give is literal complete HELL. Your fingers can cramp and you might mess up 100 times in a row. And that’s how I feel like when I and playing this piece.

This sounds awesome! I was just thinking how I can imagine Jon Lord or Keith Emerson playing this on an organ. It’ll sound great as a progressive rock piece.

This is when I wish I could like this 100 times over! Fabulous!

What a pianist, my goodness! Sensational......

I like how in the last movement the "lowest" note is middle C.

The rhythms are so good

Artwork at beginning: 'Gas' by Edward Hopper, 1940

Just heard a person play this really well and now I want to learn it lol

Love this Sam...Great work. Thank you.

Very cool sounding, definitely some minimalist influence.

The allegretto tho

8:44

The King Robert with God composed the most difficult piano music as Samuel Barber and played it. Wow! The Queen Natalie His Wife with Goddess.

Love

Lovely! Are you playing it?

Where did you find the score? I could not find it on IMSLP.

I’m currently playing this song (terribly)

Interesting.

0:06 8:04

The fourth movement should be 11:19

Écoutez Horowitz !!!

You should identify the pianist in the notes, not in reply to a commenter. It's discourteous, if not outright intellectual property abuse, not to do so.