Pianists (and other performers) who hum along when they play

[Brian]

Jando's humming is something I've heard of but yet to experience. Despite having several discs of his music, I can still detect no contribution from him aside from the one he's meant to be making via his fingers and feet.

Two Schubert discs (with D.960 and the Wanderer Fantasy), Mozart's "Elvira Madigan", and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies are the places I've heard Jando's vocal chords contribute. It's most noticeable in the Schubert A major sonata. Haven't heard it, however, in any of his Beethoven (so far). I find it rather endearing...

sidoze - long fingernails?    It's not like that's such a hard problem to solve!

[sidoze]

sidoze - long fingernails?    It's not like that's such a hard problem to solve!

yep, though who knows, it might have something to do with his technique too.

[Brian]

yep, though who knows, it might have something to do with his technique too.

Now that I think about it, Marcia Ball has a song called "I Grow My Fingernails Long So They Click When I Play the Piano." If you like zydeco stuff, it's a terrific song, very funny too 

[not edward]

In the 'tuba mirum' from Verdi's Requiem you can hear Toscanini almost shouting at his band to get the best out of them. This is the 1951 NBCSO performance.

Then there's Hermann Scherchen's infamously shouty Beethoven cycle from Lugano.