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#1079119 - 11/14/08 09:20 PM
Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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 PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD(S).[/b] I am delighted to introduce our 12th quarterly Adult Beginners' Forum Recital. So, pull up a chair and have a listen. I would like to take this opportunity to ask the audience to please refrain from commentary in this recital room. A separate room has been provided for the purposes of intermezzo discussion. Please take any and all comments to the General Discussion Room and all critical discussion to the Critical Discussion Room. Thank you. A template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback: Response Template In addition to the zip files linked below, mahlzeit has added a feature to his program that creates an online streaming player. Just click on the link to hear all the recital pieces without having to download the zip files: Online Streaming Player For the convenience of forum members, mahlzeit's program has normalized the files for consistent volume and standardized the ID3 tags in a collection of zip files. This makes it easier to create personal CDs and playlists. These zip files have been posted at the following URLs: Zip File 1 Zip File 2 Zip File 3 Zip File 4 Zip File 5 Zip File 6 Zip File 7 Zip File 8 Zip File 9 The zip files, along with past recitals, have also been uploaded to: http://www.esnips.com/web/PWRecitals Let me express my greatest thanks to five very special people: mr_super-hunky for coming up with the idea of our online recitals, which have proven to be more successful than any of us ever dreamed; Bob Muir for working out the technical details of pulling together the recital and doing so tirelessly for the first six, count 'em, six, recitals; LaValse for hosting the zip files and recital software on his server; Copper for also hosting the zip files and trouble-shooting help; and last but not least, mahlzeit for writing the absolutely fantastic web-based recital program that we are using. THANK YOU MAHLZEIT!!! AGAIN: DO NOT REPLY OR POST ON THIS THREAD!!
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#1079120 - 11/14/08 09:55 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 01[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Lisztener [/b] | | From: | Columbus, Ohio USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | The vast majority of my experience is through self-teaching. I took lessons for 2-1/2 years as an adolescent, 6 months as an adult until resuming lessons again 1 month ago. My teacher is a great motivator. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0vDhxSvfTo | | Title of piece: | "Gone" | | Composer: | Jim Chappell | | Duration: | 05:04 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway acoustic | | Recording method: | Rode NT5 mics with Zoom H4 phantom power | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My first "New Age" piece. I like the melody and hope you do, too.
I have edited a couple mistakes. Other mistakes are beyond editing, so prepare to plug your ears.
YouTube link is to a slide-show/video |
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#1079121 - 11/14/08 10:01 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 02[/b] | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel [/b] | | From: | Connecticut | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years 9 months. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Glinka Nocturne in E flat | | Composer: | Mikhail Glinka | | Duration: | 05:25 | | Source of music: | Sheet music form piano.ru. Thanks Adjan! | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 digital | | Recording method: | Line Out to computer sound card Line In. Audacity. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Mikhail Glinka wrote this lovely Nocturne in 1828, the same year that Chopin wrote his first Nocturne. It's a very romantic, very sweet piece, with some unusual, dissonant harmonies adding a bittersweet touch.
The main difficulties in this Nocturne are the many twos against threes, some of which I played nicely 
and the very pretty run of ten against six at 3:08.
You can download the score at:
http://www.piano.ru/glinka.html
(the sixth link: Íîêòþðí)
The Nocturne seems to speak of love and gentleness and beauty.
I hope you like it. |
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#1079122 - 11/14/08 10:02 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 03[/b] | | | Performer's name: | AnthonyB [/b] | | From: | Center City, MN | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 10 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Stella Del Mattino | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 02:15 | | Source of music: | Ludovico Einaudi - The Best Of | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | FP-7 Line-Out to Line-In on built in motherboard sound. Recorded in Ardour in Ubuntu Linux. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was really a workout for me when I first started. The right hand stays really busy. I could only play through a few times at first before having to stop. That problem no longer exists. Hopefully I'll get a non-Einaudi piece for one of these recitals at some point. I just don't really have a sheet music collection to work from yet, sorry. |
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#1079123 - 11/14/08 10:03 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 04[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Ode2Joy [/b] | | From: | Pasadena, CA | | Experience: | Adult that resumed lessons in January 2008. Took about 2+ years of lessons as a child 30 years ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in F minor BWV 881 | | Composer: | J. S. Bach | | Duration: | 02:24 | | Source of music: | Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume II
Alfred Masterwork Edition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've been lurking around the forum for the past year since I resumed lessons and decided to take the plunge in submitting a piece. I haven't learned the Fugue part yet. I'm pretty nervous about this submission but if I don't do this now, I'll probably never work up the courage to submit again. |
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#1079124 - 11/14/08 10:04 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 05[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Mr. super-hunky [/b] | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 1/2 years, home brewed method. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | *Magicland* | | Composer: | Original composition #2........Mr Super-Hunky | | Duration: | 05:25 | | Source of music: | Original composition | | Instrument used: | Recorded on Roland KR-7 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my second original composition. I tried to create a beautiful, but haunting melody along with a more dramatic side. All while being "haunting' without getting creepy!.
*Magicland* is a compolation album I am putting together (self recorded cd) that I want to create to serve as a benchmark of my playing abilites as well as a cheap x-mas gift.
When I record a final version of this piece,(this one is still a bit rough as it's not finished yet), I will do it on the big acoustic grand which sounds so cool.
Until then, I hope you enjoy this one. |
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#1079125 - 11/14/08 10:05 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 06[/b] | | | Performer's name: | jazzyprof [/b] | | From: | Ann Arbor, MI | | Experience: | Self taught as a kid, 4.5 years of lessons this incarnation. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Etude op.25 #1 (Aeolian Harp) | | Composer: | F. Chopin | | Duration: | 03:39 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway B | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I made a recording of this piece for the ABF Chopin Etude recital on October 17. Since I haven't had time to finish any other piece I decided to make a new recording of the same etude for this recital. I don't know if I'm getting better or worse...but this is a good way to keep the piece in my fingers. |
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#1079126 - 11/14/08 10:08 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 07[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Mateusz 'Mati' Papiernik [/b] | | From: | Lodz, Poland | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 years as a whole, for the last half of this year under tuition. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.maticomp.net | | Title of piece: | Polskie drogi (Polish roads) | | Composer: | Andrzej Kurylewicz | | Duration: | 02:57 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai CN 21 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC, and then rendered using Garritan Steinway Standard. Audacity used to normalise the signal a bit. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | It's a fairly unknown tune by Polish movie composer, Andrzej Kurylewicz. It was the main theme from "Polskie drogi" ("Polish roads"). I have a great sentiment towards this melody and I am very happy I can share it with you. |
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#1079127 - 11/14/08 10:19 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 08[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Peyton [/b] | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | on and off for years. A few lessons way back. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.peytonart.com | | Title of piece: | The Last Man Alive | | Composer: | Peyton Higgison | | Duration: | 04:11 | | Source of music: | play by ear | | Instrument used: | Pramberger grand | | Recording method: | Metro | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had this tune running through my head to the point it was driving me crazy so it was a great relief to get the lyrics written and finally record the song. The thought I had as I wrote it was of a musical number. The protaganist has been abandoned by his girl and after weeks of hiding away in his apartment begins to imagine what it might be like were he the last man alive. I did a number of takes and a few had better piano work but I chose the one that I felt had the best overall feel. |
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#1079128 - 11/14/08 11:26 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 09[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Monica K. [/b] | | From: | Lexington, KY | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4.5 on piano, another 7 in childhood on accordion | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Fairest Lord Jesus | | Composer: | Traditional -- arranged by David Nevue | | Duration: | 04:52 | | Source of music: | Sheet music; www.davidnevue.com | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin A | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, normalized through Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I am not very familiar with hymns, and I had never heard this hymn before listening to David Nevue's latest album. But I thought this arrangement was just lovely, and it was a challenging piece to learn (and not just for the two measures of staccato ), so I thought I'd use it for the recital. Most of it is considerably faster than my normal new age fare, so it's been a good training exercise for my fingers.
A page swap has been edited out. |
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#1079129 - 11/14/08 11:44 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 10[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Knotty [/b] | | From: | Potomac (dc metro) | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/knotty75 | | Home page link: | http://jazzitup-knot.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Just Friends - Improvisation Etude | | Composer: | Jim Snidero | | Duration: | 01:39 | | Source of music: | Jazz Conception - Jim Snidero @ Advance Music
http://www.jimsnidero.com/books/piano.htm | | Instrument used: | Freshly tuned Yamaha U3 | | Recording method: | Pair of Shure SM-57, Alesis Mixer + Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is an improvisation on 'Just Friends' changes (John Klenner). Don't go looking for the melody, it ain't there because of copyright. This is transcribed from Mike Ledonne's piano arrangements (whom I try to imitate). Bass is Dennis Irwin on Bass and Kenny Washington on Drums. |
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#1079130 - 11/14/08 11:45 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Registered: 08/10/05
Posts: 17397
Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 11[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Benny [/b] | | From: | Germany | | Experience: | Adult Re-Starter for almost 2 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Comptine d'un autre été: l'après-midi | | Composer: | Yann Tiersen | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai CA91 | | Recording method: | Analog to E-MU 0404 to Cubase LE | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Well, this piece has been recorded quite a few times, but I like it very much and I wanted to give it a try.
I found it difficult while listening to it the very first time, then easy once I started learning it, and, finally, difficult again while trying to get (nearly) the sound I wanted to have. |
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#1079131 - 11/14/08 11:47 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 12[/b] | | | Performer's name: | ohitpro [/b] | | From: | Columbus, Ohio | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | About 1 and a half years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Morning Snowfall | | Composer: | Carol Matz | | Duration: | 01:21 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Casio PX-200 | | Recording method: | MIDI file to Synthfont | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My first recital entry! This is a little piece that hints at the approaching cold season for many of us. I played straight from the score in this rendition and it's begging for a middle improv section but I didn't have the guts to record it for this recital... had a brisket sandwich at a great local BBQ joint, City Barbecue. |
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#1079132 - 11/14/08 11:54 PM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 13[/b] | | | Performer's name: | b528nf7 - Bill [/b] | | From: | N. Potomac, Maryland | | Experience: | 5 Years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2LTD_KlCI | | Title of piece: | Ol' Man River | | Composer: | Kern/Hammerstein II | | Duration: | 02:26 | | Source of music: | Fake book | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CLP150 | | Recording method: | Digital Camera | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This song is from the 1927 musical Show Boat. The music is by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. |
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#1079133 - 11/15/08 12:22 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 14[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Riddler (Ed) [/b] | | From: | Florida | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Two or three years of lessons as a kid; two years of jazz lessons as an adult; and a lifetime of noodling and playing by ear. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://home.cfl.rr.com/riddlereader/ | | Title of piece: | Rhapsody In Blue | | Composer: | Gershwin | | Duration: | 02:54 | | Source of music: | Sheet music arrangement | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-120 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Various professionals seem to look down on this piece because of what it is not - - it isn't jazz, it isn't in classical form, etc. Whatever.
Personally, I love it for what it is. |
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#1079134 - 11/15/08 12:22 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 15[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Kawaigirl1 [/b] | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 10 years as a child. Picked up piano again Dec/05. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Winter Walk | | Composer: | David Nevue | | Duration: | 04:13 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland RD300SX | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079135 - 11/15/08 12:23 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 16[/b] | | | Performer's name: | flyingfroggy [/b] | | Experience: | One year as child, about 8 years as adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in C# minor Op. 3 No. 2 | | Composer: | Sergei Rachmaninoff | | Duration: | 04:59 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Konzert Grand 189 | | Recording method: | I used a dinky little microphone that came with an old, long gone computer, recorded into a laptop, then normalized and removed noise with Audacity. Sorry about the clipping. And in the interest of full disclosure, there's an edit in the last section. I hope that's not cheating, but you really wouldn't have wanted to hear it otherwise! | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079136 - 11/15/08 12:28 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Posts: 17397
Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 17[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Orez Eno [/b] | | From: | New England | | Experience: | 1 year, 3 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Comptine d'un autre ete: l'apres-midi | | Composer: | Yann Tiersen | | Duration: | 03:15 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Akoustik Piano software (Concert Grand D) | | Recording method: | Direct from software (no audio interface/card) | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I realize that this piece has been submitted many times before. All the better to get my playing critically evaluated, since everyone is familiar with it. After all, isn’t that what the Adult Beginner’s Form Recital is all about?
This piece is my greatest accomplishment so far. Thank you to Monica K and bluekeys for inspiring me to learn it. This is living proof that PianoWorld recitals are beneficial. It wasn’t as easy as you said, bluekeys, and for a while I was mad at you because of it, but I finally learned it and now we’re friends again. Thanks for your encouragement.
During the past three months I have experienced my greatest gains ever on the piano, partly because of the following two experiences:
1 - I completed a workshop in fear anxiety. The result is that I have successfully performed this same piece in front of an audience of ten people. This is tremendous progress for me since only three months ago I could not play even simpler music for a single person due to my nervousness.
2 - I now have a piano teacher. The progress I have made in suppressing my performance anxiety has allowed me to play comfortably in front of a teacher. But I admit that this is not just any piano teacher. She is very patient, seems genuinely sensitive to my nervousness, and in our short time together we have made real progress. I suspect Betty Patnude will be pleased. And Betty, I know you won’t believe this but this teacher claims that I’m not a difficult student to deal with at all. Isn’t that amazing? |
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#1079137 - 11/15/08 12:31 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 18[/b] | | | Performer's name: | glitzer [/b] | | Experience: | 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Petite valse from Kinderalbum | | Composer: | Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) | | Duration: | 01:11 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Nocturne | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Obviously, this recording wouldn't be fit for public display in any other setting, but it's called the adult BEGINNER's forum, so here I am.
The piece itself is lovely, in my opinion. It has this old-fashioned charm and gentle humor that seems quite incompatible with certain modern tastes where noise and laughter from the tape replace wit. But I digress... |
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#1079138 - 11/15/08 12:32 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 19[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Eternal [/b] | | From: | NYC | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years self-taught | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Right Here Waiting | | Composer: | Richard Marx | | Duration: | 03:43 | | Source of music: | Sheet music from Musicnotes.com | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX700 with Ivory's Yamaha | | Recording method: | Digital to PC (MIDI) | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Right Here Waiting (For You)" is one of those ballads that everyone knows. |
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#1079139 - 11/15/08 12:33 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 20[/b] | | | Performer's name: | TrueBeginner [/b] | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 9 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Les Reves Du Matin ( The Morning Dreams ) | | Composer: | Paul De Senneville | | Duration: | 03:57 | | Source of music: | Music sheet | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | Casio Privia -> Audacity -> MP3 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | When I chose the piece, the music sheet looked easy ( only 3 pages, a few 16th notes, no obvious tricky patterns ). Boys, I was wrong. The appergios changes every measures, so the fingerings don't repeat and all over the place. For a people who plays by memory like me, it is hard. The result is that the record is not really smooth, but that is all I can manage for now. The morning dreams sounds like a nightmare to me  |
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#1079140 - 11/15/08 12:35 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 21[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Laura D [/b] | | Experience: | almost 4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata K. 95, L. 358 | | Composer: | Domenico Scarlatti | | Duration: | 01:00 | | Source of music: | Recital Winners, Volume 1 | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I recorded this in one take. I did not play the repeats, so it is shorter than it really ought to be. I liked learning to do the ornaments. This piece is full of cross hands--the right hand jumping down to play the low notes--and it is lots of fun to play. |
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#1079141 - 11/15/08 12:36 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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Loc: Lexington, Kentucky
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| 22[/b] | | | Performer's name: | John Frank [/b] | | From: | Central Pennsylvania | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years on Nov. 15th | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Hava Nagila | | Composer: | Melody: Traditional Hassidic - Lyrics: Abraham Levi Idelsohn | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Source of music: | Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course, Level 2 | | Instrument used: | Digital Piano - Yamaha Clavinova CVP-301 | | Recording method: | DP direct to Cubase 4 Software via Presonus Analog-to-Digital Converter | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The most popular and frequently played (and sung) of all Jewish folk songs.
"Hava Nagila" translates to "Let Us Rejoice" and is a song of celebration heard everywhere: weddings, bar mitzvahs, festivals, harvests, etc. - perhaps even at divorces and funerals! It is almost always danced to in swirling, interweaving, highly synchronized (and very energetic) movements that simply radiate sheer joy and exuberance.
I had an infrequent struggle with the infamous and dreaded red dot on this one - got very frustrated - said the hell with it - went for it one last time and here's the result: lacking in polish and finese but overflowing with enthuisiasm and "hutsva" (sp.?). This is probably the 2nd most fun I've ever had while sitting down.
Regards and enjoy, JF - and Hava Nagila! - or as the very old, stale joke goes: have two Nagilas! Mazel Tov. |
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#1079142 - 11/15/08 12:38 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 23[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Honnli / Steven [/b] | | From: | Melbourne, Australia | | Experience: | 3 and a half years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Suteki Da Ne / Isn't It Beautiful (Piano Collections) | | Composer: | Nobuo Uematsu & Kazushige Nojima | | Duration: | 04:24 | | Source of music: | Sheet music. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha DGX620 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC via USB, and used the Steinway sound sample from The Grand 2. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece is the theme song of Final Fantasy X. |
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#1079143 - 11/15/08 12:42 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 24[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Casyopea [/b] | | From: | Spain | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 11 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekUmxzoH72o | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/casyopea1977 | | Title of piece: | Radio Ballet | | Composer: | Eluvium (Matthew Cooper) | | Duration: | 02:14 | | Source of music: | By ear | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love this song so much! I made it shorter because my hands grew tired, but I tried to keep the general spirit of the song. I recorded this a month ago, but it is so special to me that I wanted it to be in this recital. |
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#1079144 - 11/15/08 12:43 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 25[/b] | | | Performer's name: | epf [/b] | | From: | Southern California | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Actual experience: 12 years, total elapsed time: 50+ years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | La Styrienne (Op 100, No. 14) | | Composer: | J. Friedrich Burgmüller | | Duration: | 01:37 | | Source of music: | Burgmüller 25 Progressive Studies, Opus 100
Schirmer Performance Editions
(Sheet Music) | | Instrument used: | Privia PX-800 | | Recording method: | Direct to Zoom H4 then audacity to normalize. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | There are a couple of small mistakes in here, but this is a single pass recording as if it were a live recital. |
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#1079145 - 11/15/08 12:45 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 26[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Diane Cornellier [/b] | | From: | New England | | Experience: | 6 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet in G | | Composer: | JS Bach | | Duration: | 00:48 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | YPG-625 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079146 - 11/15/08 12:47 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 27[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 [/b] | | From: | Montreal, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 7 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://tinyurl.com/5tzhmo | | Title of piece: | Imagine | | Composer: | John Lennon | | Duration: | 03:41 | | Source of music: | video | | Instrument used: | digital piano Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I recorded it on the first take. Am I lucky or getting better ? Don't forget to watch my video. |
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#1079147 - 11/15/08 12:48 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 28[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Seaside_Lee [/b] | | From: | Blackpool UK | | Experience: | 5 years 1 month | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | What A Wonderful World | | Composer: | Bob Thiele | | Duration: | 04:59 | | Source of music: | Played By Ear | | Instrument used: | Casio PX-320 | | Recording method: | Audacity, normalized in Nero | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I just like this tune...tried to play around with it a little...hope you enjoy
Still cooking for myself so tuna, mayo, basmati rice and sugar snap peas (its one of 2 things I can cook lol) |
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#1079148 - 11/15/08 12:49 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 29[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Copper [/b] | | From: | Virginia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Here There and Everywhere | | Composer: | John Lennon and Paul McCartney | | Duration: | 02:46 | | Source of music: | Scott the Piano Guy Favorite Piano Fake Book | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Connect the Piano to my PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079149 - 11/15/08 12:50 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 30[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Mike White Yamaha G3 & P-80 [/b] | | From: | Louisiana USA | | Experience: | Lifetime by ear, began self-teaching to read in 2001 after retirement. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Granada | | Composer: | Isaac Albeniz | | Duration: | 04:40 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 digital | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The rapid two-octave arpeggios in the left hand are difficult for me. |
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#1079150 - 11/15/08 12:51 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 31[/b] | | | Performer's name: | LaValse [/b] | | From: | Mumbles, Wales, UK | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | ~8 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.colin--jenkins.blogspot.com | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op 2 | | Composer: | Scriabin | | Duration: | 00:57 | | Source of music: | http://www.sailwave.com/music/skr-op22.pdf | | Instrument used: | Yamaha U1 | | Recording method: | Edirol R-09, Audacity. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Like the ever popular Op2 etude, Scriabin composed this when he was a teenager but it is unmistakeably Scriabin. People talk about his early Chopin phase but I'm not sure ther ever was one. Yes, he composed a cycle of 24 preludes but according to one source (Henle) he was already disenchanted with Chopin by then. I hear Scriabin as his own man, even from his earliest works... I have posted this in a piano bar previously - recital piece not ready yet... |
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#1079151 - 11/15/08 12:52 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 32[/b] | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing [/b] | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | 6 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Lied ohne Worte Op. 19 #4 "Confidence" Song Without Words | | Composer: | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | | Duration: | 02:14 | | Source of music: | Sheet music in the Henle Album, "Piano Music from Bach to Debussy" | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-4 digital | | Recording method: | Native Instrument's Akoustik Piano using
Steinway Hamburg D
Audacity-normalized | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079152 - 11/15/08 12:53 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 33[/b] | | | Performer's name: | LisztAddict [/b] | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Gounod Ave Maria with Bach Prelude in C major from WTC book 1 | | Duration: | 02:26 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger JP-208 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Still can't decide on the tempo of this piece.
Direct link to this recording - http://www.box.net/shared/llkp0diecx
This Bach's Prelude in C major is a rather simple piece, but playing it with left hand alone is really something else. |
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#1079153 - 11/15/08 12:53 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 34[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Gary001 [/b] | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 8 Months, self taught. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet in G Major | | Composer: | Christian Petzold - BWV Anh. 114; | | Duration: | 01:41 | | Source of music: | From Succeeding with the Masters, Baroque Era Vol. 1 by Helan Marlais | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-720 | | Recording method: | Line-in on iRiver iHP-140, converted to mp3 via Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the second piece I've submitted to the Piano World Recital. I've attempted to add more of the ornamentations this time, however timing of these notes leaves a lot to be desired.
I plan to keep working on this piece whilst learning newer pieces so any constructive criticism is more than welcome. |
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#1079154 - 11/15/08 12:55 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 35[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Paul Cast [/b] | | From: | New England | | Experience: | 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonatina Op.36 No.2-1 Allegretto | | Composer: | Muzio Clementi | | Duration: | 01:44 | | Source of music: | Clementi Six Sonatinas, Alfred Masterwork Edition | | Instrument used: | CLP-230 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wanted to do all three movements, but could not accomplish it. Maybe next time. |
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#1079155 - 11/15/08 12:55 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 36[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Frotz / Brian [/b] | | From: | Utah | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata in A Major - Mvmt. 3 - Alla Turca | | Composer: | Mozart | | Duration: | 04:25 | | Instrument used: | Schulze Pollmann P6 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A little slower than I'd like, and a few mistakes, but overall I'm pleased with how it turned out. |
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#1079156 - 11/15/08 12:56 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 37[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Ken S. [/b] | | From: | Southeastern U.S. | | Experience: | Two years and a bit | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Chopin a minor waltz (posthumous) | | Duration: | 02:47 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | A 100 year-old upright that was last refurbished in the 1940s. | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Thanks for setting this up. |
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#1079157 - 11/15/08 12:58 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 38[/b] | | | Performer's name: | jotur - Cathy Turner [/b] | | From: | Santa Fe, NM | | Experience: | 2 years of lessons in my mid-teens, 30+ years off, playing for dancing since 1995 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Stone's Rag | | Duration: | 02:19 | | Source of music: | Fiddler's Fakebook | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-100 | | Recording method: | keyboard to PC, audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | The band I'm in played for a weekend-long contra dance camp a couple of weeks ago, and we needed everything we had ever learned and then some in order to have enough sets to not bore everyone with a bunch of repeats. One of our older sets included this rag, but we didn't really, as a group, get it back up to speed. So, anticipating that we'd need it anyway, I revived it as a piano rag, like we had played it a couple of years ago. I made up enough variations of the first rag to be able to play it 6 times thru, and then did 4 variations of Stone's, and the fiddles did a couple. We ended up not using the set for a contra, but used the other rag, slowed down and swung, for an impromptu swing workshop, and this one, slowed down, for a choreographed shottish workshop  So it all payed off. And - I got a recital piece thrown in, sort of free. For a week after the camp my fingers were rubber, and they're really not quite back yet, and I'm pretty burnt out on this, but here it is, 4 variations at 116, sort of. Pretend like you're contra dancing, and there are also guitars, mandolins, and bodhrans going, and you won't hear the mistakes
This also shows my beginning attempts to be able to improvise. None of this is actually improvised - it's all carefully rehearsed bits that I can mix and match. But I find, if I'm playing it a lot, that the mix and match comes at non-planned times, so it's varied subconsciously, or maybe unconsciously. So my hope is that maybe someday I'll have enough variations inside me that I can actually begin, at slower speeds, to be able to alter things on the fly. It's a thought - |
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#1079158 - 11/15/08 12:59 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 39[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Euphonatrix [/b] | | Experience: | 4 1/2 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Album for the young Nr. 26 *** (untitled) | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 03:04 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | rebuilt Weihenmeyer & Co upright (ca. 1921) | | Recording method: | one Shure PG 81 into Sony Minidisc Recorder into computer using Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is one of three untitled pieces in Schumann's op 68 (Album for the young).
Guess what happens when you finally manage to beat the red dot syndrome and play your piece almost to your liking? Either your recording system will get a hiccup or your feathered pet friends will start a live commentary about your playing ... I had to chose between these two interesting versions - so here goes Robert Schumann featuring Galileo and Pythagoras with a squeaking improvised vocal accompaniment towards the end of the piece. |
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#1079159 - 11/15/08 12:59 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 40[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Daren [/b] | | From: | England | | Experience: | 6 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Le Onde | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:03 | | Source of music: | Used sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland Hp207 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Still not memorised this piece so Im playing from the score and it is my first take of this piece and my first recording. |
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#1079160 - 11/15/08 01:00 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 41[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Pixie's friend [/b] | | From: | Spain, living in UK | | Avatar: | | | Experience: | 4 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | BWV Anh 131 (Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, n 32, untitled) | | Composer: | Bach | | Duration: | 01:16 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (Piano, Curso Preparatorio by Perfecto Garcia Chornet) | | Instrument used: | Kurzweil Mark Pro ii | | Recording method: | DP to PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | First ever recorded piece. |
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#1079161 - 11/15/08 01:01 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 42[/b] | | | Performer's name: | WJ3 - Walt [/b] | | From: | Salem. Or | | Experience: | 2 years 6 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet in G Major | | Composer: | JS Bach | | Duration: | 01:50 | | Source of music: | First Lessons in Bach from Schirmer Library | | Instrument used: | 1906 Claredon Upright Piano | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 and audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My first submission with all of the mistakes. At least I am in. |
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#1079162 - 11/15/08 01:02 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 43[/b] | | | Performer's name: | mahlzeit [/b] | | From: | Breda, The Netherlands | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Let's say 3 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.originalsolopiano.com | | Title of piece: | After Watching A Sentimental Movie | | Composer: | myself | | Duration: | 03:25 | | Source of music: | When I was playing around with the chords for Autumn Leaves today, I came up with the themes from the recording. Then I recorded it a few times, each time improvising most of the piece. This is the last recording of the bunch. I left all the klunkers in. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP33 digital piano | | Recording method: | First MIDI, then back into the piano to capture the audio using Audacity. Unfortunately, my soundcard seems to have developed a hiss. Just pretend the MP3 is from an old vinyl record. :-) | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The movie was "Cinema Paradiso". |
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#1079163 - 11/15/08 01:03 AM
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| 44[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Eighty8 [/b] | | From: | Dayton, Oh. USA | | Experience: | Playing off and on 40 yrs, practicing seriously about 2. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | My One And Only Love | | Composer: | Words by Robert Mellon, Music by Guy Wood | | Duration: | 04:03 | | Source of music: | Sheet music, Hal Leonard, Torch Songs | | Instrument used: | Alesis QS8 | | Recording method: | DP to Cakewalk to create midi file, open midi file with Goldwave to create mp3 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Left out the intro and changed the ending a little. Chicken noodle soup, peanut butter and jelly sandwich |
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#1079164 - 11/15/08 01:04 AM
Re: Recital 12 -- November 15, 2008
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| 45[/b] | | | Performer's name: | MarkL/Mark Leininger [/b] | | From: | Chicago Burbs | | Experience: | 2 years, 1 month | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Le Coucou (The Cuckoo) | | Composer: | Louis-Claude Daquin | | Duration: | 01:28 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-90 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had a hard time finding phrasing and expressiveness that fit this piece, then decided that Cuckoos make a structured, precise sound that doesn’t carry much emotion. So I worked at playing the piece with precision and the repeated sound that imitates the repetitive sound of a Cuckoo. |
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#1079165 - 11/15/08 01:05 AM
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| 46[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Manndrew [/b] | | From: | Massachusetts | | Experience: | Well, let's see. I do remember trying to sneak away from piano practice to watch the original Lone Ranger show on our black and white TV with rabbit ears. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To | | Composer: | Cole Porter | | Duration: | 04:21 | | Source of music: | This was an improvisation of the sheet music from a Frank Sinatra song book. | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | I used the Zoom H4 and Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece gave me fits to say the least. I struggled trying to find the right tempo. It was either too fast or too slow. Also, the sheet music was very bare bones in structure so it needed a lot of additional stuff. The toughest part was finding an acceptable left hand accompaniment. |
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#1079166 - 11/15/08 01:06 AM
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| 47[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Greywullf [/b] | | Experience: | 20 1/2 yrs | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Trois Nouvelles Etude No. 3 in Ab | | Composer: | F. Chopin | | Duration: | 02:02 | | Source of music: | Chopin Etuden, Peters Ed. | | Instrument used: | 1910 Chickering 6'4" Parlor Grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, audacity amplified | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I managed to get a better recording than the Chopin Etude recital recording due to two weeks more practice. Make sure you check the Etude recital for more great performances by forum members. |
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#1079167 - 11/15/08 01:07 AM
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| 48[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Undone – Jim [/b] | | From: | Connecticut | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Closing in on one year as a re-beginner | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Theme from Etude Op. 10, No 3. | | Composer: | Frederic Chopin | | Duration: | 01:48 | | Source of music: | Alfred’s Adult All-In-One volume 2 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YPG-625 | | Recording method: | Line-out to MiniDisk to line-in on computer | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had hoped to submit my first non Alfred’s All-In-One recital piece this time around but another on-the-ball member beat me to the punch by submitting the same piece I had been preparing. So I fell back to plan two and started polishing up another Alfred’s piece to submit in its stead. Unfortunately (for me) this piece was also submitted for this recital. So I ended up cramming to get this final selection in some sort of shape for the recital. I know it was just played in the previous recital, but I was out of options.
I truly love this piece and hope to someday be able tackle the full, unadulterated, score. |
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#1079168 - 11/15/08 01:08 AM
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| 49[/b] | | | Performer's name: | RobM [/b] | | From: | Plymouth, UK | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | About 12 months of 'proper' piano experience, plus many years of dabbling on keyboards playing simple tunes. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Giorni Dispari | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:13 | | Source of music: | Sheet music - The Best Of Ludovico Einaudi | | Instrument used: | Roland RD-300SX | | Recording method: | Digital Piano recorded into Adobe Audition via my Xenyx mixer and the line in of my sound card. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I started learning this piece soon after the previous recital, so I've been working on it for almost 3 months now along with various other things (my attention span doesn't allow me to focus on one piece at a time). It is one of my favourite Einaudi pieces I've heard from the 'Best Of' collection of sheet music.....hopefully I'll be able to do it justice some day! |
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#1079169 - 11/15/08 01:09 AM
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| 50[/b] | | | Performer's name: | GregF [/b] | | From: | South Carolina | | Experience: | 19 Months back at it after 30 year break (2 years in elementary school). 13 months with a teacher. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Brahams's Lullaby | | Composer: | Johannes Brahams | | Duration: | 01:32 | | Source of music: | Mostly sheet music from Alfred's Adult All-In-One. Added a couple of broken chords to lengthen the piece. One day I'll manage something over 2 minutes. :-) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Digital Piano - YPG-625. | | Recording method: | Direct from digital piano to XtremeMac MicroMemo attachment for Ipod. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Had a technically tougher Burgmuller piece ready, but it was too short. I've been thinking about making a bedtime CD for my daughter, so I had been working on this piece, too. Just realized all my recital pieces were composed by Johann B's - Bach, Burmuller and now Brahams. I think they're all done by the same guy using an alias. |
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#1079170 - 11/15/08 01:10 AM
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| 51[/b] | | | Performer's name: | grotrianer [/b] | | From: | Germany | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 20 years, somewhat serious again (or for the first time, rather?!) for the last 9 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude 28/17 A flat major | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:14 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kurzweil SP2X | | Recording method: | digital to PC, audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | vegetarian pizza... this is the piece I restarted lessons with a month ago; been loving it since I first heard it on one of my first purchases of classical music recordings - Pollini's complete op. 28 |
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#1079171 - 11/15/08 01:11 AM
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| 52[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Deep Elem (aka Buck) [/b] | | Experience: | 2.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | A House Is Not A Home | | Composer: | Burt Bacharach and Hal David | | Duration: | 05:28 | | Source of music: | Leadsheet | | Instrument used: | Yamaha S90ES | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love the chords on this one. Normally I work a lot on putting in a lot of chord substitutions but this one doesn't really need it, just a few subs. If you want to hear a really incredible solo piano version of this check out 7notemode on YouTube. Now that I know the song I think I might try to delve into 7notemode's tutorial on this song. |
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#1079172 - 11/15/08 01:12 AM
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| 53[/b] | | | Performer's name: | babama [/b] | | From: | Netherlands | | Experience: | 14 months piano. 7+ years keyboard/synthesizer at young age. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, 18th variation (Rachmaninov, arrangement Pochacco) | | Composer: | Rachmaninov | | Duration: | 03:17 | | Source of music: | Sheet music
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/piano-score-central/files?hl=en | | Instrument used: | Roland HP-201 | | Recording method: | Soundcard / Adobe Audition | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079173 - 11/15/08 01:12 AM
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| 54[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Always Wanted to Play Piano [/b] | | From: | Chicago area | | Experience: | on and off for 10 months, self-taught | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://aw2pp.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Ombre | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:13 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (pages 20-24 of the Best of Einaudi bok) | | Instrument used: | Casio Ap-200 | | Recording method: | Saved to midi using Red Dot Forever
Converted from midi to WAV using Sythfont (sound font WST25FStein_00Sep22.SF2)
Converted from WAV to MP3 using Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | There are four errors, a slight hesitation, and an overall lack of refined musicality here. That said, it's not a bad effort for me, to be honest. For more thoughts, I posted a blog entry on this recital piece: http://aw2pp.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-recital-submission.html |
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#1079174 - 11/15/08 01:14 AM
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| 55[/b] | | | Performer's name: | mlr1899 [/b] | | From: | Colorado | | Experience: | Perhaps a total of 8 years over the last 25. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Swipesy | | Composer: | Scott Joplin, Arthur Marshall | | Duration: | 03:30 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Samick upright | | Recording method: | Edirol R-09 digital recorder | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece still has a lot of warts, especially in the D section, but I guess it's as good as it's going to get for the time being. I'm pretty happy with the speed. Trying to work up my ragtime chops without messing up my left elbow. All feedback welcome and appreciated. |
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#1079175 - 11/15/08 01:14 AM
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| 56[/b] | | | Performer's name: | rustyfingers [/b] | | From: | Massachusetts | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 8 years as a child, 3 as an adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sentimental Journey | | Composer: | Bud Green, Les Brown and Ben Homer | | Duration: | 02:04 | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4--Amplified in Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The first time I remember hearing this piece was in a Junior High concert band concert. I learned to play it on the piano shortly thereafter. In college, my a cappella group sang it. It's one of my favorites. Hope you enjoy it as well.
Happiness is a freshly tuned piano. |
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#1079176 - 11/15/08 01:15 AM
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| 57[/b] | | | Performer's name: | DragonPianoPlayer [/b] | | From: | Denver, CO | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Allegro | | Composer: | Joseph Haydn | | Duration: | 01:19 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music (Keith Snell Baroque & Classical Level 4) | | Instrument used: | Casio PX310 through Galaxy II Vienna Grand Dowload Edition | | Recording method: | Reaper | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079177 - 11/15/08 01:16 AM
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| 58[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Ozor Mox [/b] | | From: | Hampshire, England | | Experience: | Just over 5 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Portrait | | Composer: | James Horner | | Duration: | 04:10 | | Source of music: | Play-by-ear. | | Instrument used: | Fatar somethingorother MIDI keyboard. | | Recording method: | Done at a recording studio session which was very cool! | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Just over 5 years ago, my dad told me that he wanted me to learn this piece for his 50th birthday, and it was one of the reasons I decided to start playing the piano after having played the keyboard when I was much younger. I have no sheet music for it so the way I play it has changed a lot, but I think this recording is pretty close to James Horner's original performance since I listened over and over to the real thing before recording this.
Also I HATE the Celine Dion version of this! Yuck! |
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#1079178 - 11/15/08 01:17 AM
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| 59[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Schubertian [/b] | | From: | Dallas | | Experience: | 5 years as child, 35 years hiatus, 2 years as adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude #13 (F# Major) | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:08 | | Source of music: | Wiener Urtext, Hanssen/Demus (eds.) | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 grand (romantically out of tune) | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 / audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Oh no! I hit a wrong note
Oh no! that sounded too loud
Oh no! the rhythm is all off here
Oh no! it sounds awful on playback
I. Just. Cant. Record. It. Again. |
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#1079179 - 11/15/08 01:18 AM
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| 60[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Babs [/b] | | From: | Florida | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | A few years as a child and adult off and on. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in B Minor (op28,no.6) | | Composer: | Frederic Chopin | | Duration: | 02:20 | | Source of music: | CHOPIN - His Greatest Piano Solos
Copa Publishing Co. | | Instrument used: | Bohemia 185A | | Recording method: | Olympus WS331M
Olympus stereo mic ME51S | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first classical piece I have ever recorded. I chose this piece because I wanted to record a short Chopin piece that presented some new challenges for me. I found this song to be unique in the way it features the melody being played primarily in the left hand. The waves of emotion that are played in the left hand sound to me like the reflections of a soulful expression. The right hand played has been thought by some to sound like tolling bells. There are some that refer to this piece as the Tolling Bells Prelude. |
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#1079180 - 11/15/08 01:20 AM
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| 61[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Oxfords Gal [/b] | | From: | Florida | | Experience: | 2 and a half years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Clowns OP 39 No. 20 | | Composer: | Dmitri Kabalevsky | | Duration: | 00:45 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Kawai K-8 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | When my teacher assigned me this piece I absolutely hated it due to not liking the music but once I started to learn it I enjoyed playing it. |
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#1079181 - 11/15/08 01:21 AM
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| 62[/b] | | | Performer's name: | bluekeys [/b] | | From: | Virginia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years / 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata in C (K545) | | Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | Duration: | 03:29 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP 223 | | Recording method: | Midi out, rendered to MP3 with TruePianos VST | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was (obviously) a reach for me. The RH runs came out ok, but the LH runs are painfully uneven. I think I need another couple years of piano experience and about 30 fewer years of wear and tear on the finger bones to play this thing evenly at tempo. Oh well, it was a great learning experience. |
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#1079182 - 11/15/08 01:23 AM
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| 63[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Euan Morrison [/b] | | From: | Edinburgh | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years, 1 month | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.flickr.com/photos/euanzkamera/ | | Title of piece: | Vesper (from Casino Royale) | | Composer: | David Arnold | | Duration: | 01:46 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music book | | Instrument used: | Yamaha ydp-113 digital | | Recording method: | Recorded midi and then used Pianoteq samples | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece is from the James Bond film 'Casino Royale'. It is played during the scene where Bond is hugging Vesper in the shower (for those who haven't seen the film, it's a tender scene, not an erotic one!)
The actual recording consists of piano and strings, although the arrangement I played was obviously solo piano. There are slight mistakes, but I'm fairly happy with it. |
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#1079183 - 11/15/08 01:23 AM
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| 64[/b] | | | Performer's name: | AdagioM/Michele [/b] | | From: | Oregon | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 10 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://pdxknitterati.com | | Title of piece: | Vals No. 1 from Valses Poeticos | | Composer: | Enrique Granados | | Duration: | 02:26 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Weinbach 170 grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, and normalized with Audacity. This is the first time I've used my new Zoom with the piano; I used to use my old laptop. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've hardly played the piano this year; I've been knitting and blogging! But I'm not ready to give up an ABF recital, so I'm back on the bench. This piece is from a lovely set of romantic waltzes. I'm working on a couple more; I'd like to do several as a medley. Maybe next time! |
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#1079184 - 11/15/08 01:25 AM
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| 65[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Piano*Dad [/b] | | From: | Virginia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | nine years training as a kid. Eons of down time. Then occasional bursts of practice. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/dhfeld | | Home page link: | http://dhfeld.people.wm.edu/ | | Title of piece: | Waltz in C-sharp minor Op. 64 no. 2 | | Composer: | Frederick Chopin | | Duration: | 04:31 | | Source of music: | Schirmer edition | | Instrument used: | Grotrian 192 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Please pardon a sin of slight editing. I made a whopper of an error on the bottom of page 5 (out of six) and stopped. I restarted at a clean break point. Then I chopped out the error and spliced. The attentive may notice the spot! Nonetheless, this is really what it sounds like when I get it sort of right.
It's funny how hypercritical one can become listening to one's own 'work.' What's going through my mind as I play is the idealized version my mind hears. The real thing often sounds a bit different. :-) |
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#1079185 - 11/15/08 01:26 AM
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| 66[/b] | | | Performer's name: | ddh - Daniel [/b] | | From: | Abitibi | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 25 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Wiegenliedchen 124.6 (Little lullaby) | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 04:24 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CVP-307 | | Recording method: | Piano to Mac via Sound Studio. | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my first foray into classical music; still a bit bumpy and slow; hope You like it nonetheless. |
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#1079186 - 11/15/08 01:27 AM
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| 67[/b] | | | Performer's name: | cscl [/b] | | From: | Suburban Chicago | | Experience: | 2 years and 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonatina in C (Op. 36, No. 3, I-II) | | Composer: | Muzio Clementi | | Duration: | 04:06 | | Source of music: | Sonatina Album (Schirmer Performance Editions) | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, edited in Audacity (I think I had bad levels on this one!) | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Sonatina in C, Op. 36, No. 3, I. Spiritoso. II. Un poco adagio.
Hopefully, I'm not abusing the ABF recital rules or your ears too much by squeezing two movements of this Sonatina into one ABF recital submission. After missing the deadline for the August recital, I definitely wanted to submit for this one.
I've been playing the first movement of this Sonatina since the spring and finished it at lessons in June, but I still keep playing it while I work on the second and third movements. Unfortunately, parts are still a little murky and troublesome areas still crop up when I play it and I never know where they'll strike. Movement II I'll be playing at my November recital framed by two other pieces (a Bach Prelude and a Grieg Waltz).
Unfortunately, red dot time has been scarce lately and getting in one session was the best I could do. In this recording, I edited out two errors in movement I. Usually, I'd have various children talking or crying in the background. For this one, I recorded while they were taking a walk, but this time I had plumbers working in the house (see movement 2)! Sorry! |
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#1079187 - 11/15/08 01:28 AM
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| 68[/b] | | | Performer's name: | polostrings [/b] | | From: | Hawaii | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 yrs as child 12yrs old, decades ago. Restarted 10 months ago. Taking lessons biweekly. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Imagine | | Composer: | John Lennon | | Duration: | 02:06 | | Source of music: | Big Book of Ballads. Conveniently left out notes when it suits me. | | Instrument used: | Kawai GM-10K | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Critical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Barely done on time. Finally played a song I didn't write, which exposes my real abilities in playing. Sorry about the screaming kid in the beginning of the song, too rushed to clip it. |
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#1079188 - 11/15/08 01:30 AM
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| 69[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Kawai, Hi [/b] | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | About 1 year of lesson recently before that just a blur. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dragon Fly | | Composer: | William Gillock | | Duration: | 00:38 | | Source of music: | Lyric Preludes in Romantic Style (book) | | Instrument used: | Kawai GM-10K | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Holy Cats! How'd it get so late! Last minute submission. Short and not so sweet. Lunch? Can't remember dinner. |
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#1079189 - 11/15/08 01:31 AM
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| 70[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Hisalone (Joel) [/b] | | Experience: | 1 year after being away for 13 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bumble Boogie | | Composer: | Jack Fina | | Duration: | 03:37 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Casio PX200 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Of my three recital submissions, this was the toughest to get a good recording of. I have been out of practice for about a month due to unexpected circumstances and this week I have had a horrible cough. I also discovered that since my computer crashed a little bit ago, I no longer had the proper recording programs so I had to download them again. Nevertheless, I did submit and it is not perfect and in time I will try to make it faster. It looks like most of the pieces are a bit more mellow, so this piece will definitely be a bit of a switch for the audience. Enjoy. |
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#1079190 - 11/15/08 01:32 AM
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| 71[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Mark... [/b] | | From: | New Jersey | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 23 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Spooky Story & American Hymn | | Composer: | no composer for Spooky Story - Robert Lowry for American Hymn | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | Two pieces from Alfred Three | | Instrument used: | Kawai ES4 Digital | | Recording method: | Audacity via PC | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm working on some really large pieces and didn't have anything ready for the recital. So I went and pulled these two from Alfred three. Spooky Story fits because of Halloween and American Hymn because I really enjoyed that one.
It was very tough going from the new acoustic piano back to the digital, so it didn't come out 100% the way I would of liked, but I did want to add my two cents.
Thanks for listening... |
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#1079191 - 11/15/08 01:34 AM
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| 72[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red [/b] | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | Almost one and a half years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Moon River | | Composer: | Henry Mancini | | Duration: | 03:31 | | Source of music: | Play-by-ear | | Instrument used: | DP Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | DP to audacity | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | As a child I played an accordion for a few years. As an adolescent I played a guitar for a next few years. Later I stayed far far away from any instrument for more than 20 years. I got back to music again in September 2006 because my children began taking lessons on a keyboard Yamaha 303 – a toy. In July 2007 I bought DP Roland FP-7 and it started again... I’m sure many of you know the mechanism .
On the piano I’m completely self-taught. I can play from sheet music and by ear. I have learned this tune playing only by ear - my way. I play EVERYTHING my way . That’s why if I have to play from sheet music I prefer lead sheets. They gave freedom I need .
What kind of music do I want to play? Known standards in the style between jazz and so called cocktail piano, you know, beautiful melody and jazzy chords. How far away am I from that goal? Please, tell me!
I’m aware that my performance is far from perfect but I’m just an Adult Beginner... |
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#1079192 - 11/15/08 01:35 AM
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| 73[/b] | | | Performer's name: | IPIBAHN - Sandy [/b] | | From: | Nova Scotia | | Experience: | 7 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Tarantella - Prokofiev | | Composer: | Prokofiev | | Duration: | 01:21 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha upright | | Recording method: | Mp3 player/recorder | | Critical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Not my proudest moment (and the recording isn't great either).....This piece is actually quite fun to play but difficult (for me) to play as fast as it is supposed to be played. I've been at it for a couple of months and this is, I'm afraid, as good as it's going to get. Still too slow in the D major section in the middle. A few notes that don't sound (although I'm quite sure I hit them!!) I think the ones that do sound are correct!! I only want positive feedback (lie if you have to) :-)) because my teacher picks this one apart each week. |
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#1079193 - 11/15/08 01:36 AM
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| 74[/b] | | | Performer's name: | bruceee [/b] | | From: | Wellintgon, New Zealand | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op 28, No 20 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 01:37 | | Source of music: | Sheet music orginally, played from memory | | Instrument used: | Clavinova CVP-301 (Yamaha digital) | | Recording method: | Last of several takes and without editing (which I don't know how to do anyway!). Recorded internally to the CVP as a midi file, then played back to the Zoom H4. In the Zoom, converted WAV to MP3 (VBR Variable Bit Rate). | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | First heard this piece in ABF Recital #6 -- Mike White did a good job on it. I liked it very much then and still do. |
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#1079194 - 11/15/08 01:37 AM
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| 75[/b] | | | Performer's name: | etorrales [/b] | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturn in Eb Major | | Composer: | F. Chopin | | Duration: | 05:44 | | Instrument used: | Privia PX-800 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 then Audacity to normalize | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1079195 - 11/15/08 01:38 AM
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| 76[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Extraghost [/b] | | From: | California | | Experience: | Played 6 months then stopped for about a year and started up about 5 months ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | River Flows In You | | Composer: | Yiruma | | Duration: | 03:08 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Casio AP-80 | | Recording method: | Digital To Pc | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Barely had time to practice because of HW and midterms. College sucks =( |
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#1079196 - 11/15/08 01:39 AM
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| 77[/b] | | | Performer's name: | Theowne [/b] | | From: | Toronto, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqSPQavhnOE | | Home page link: | http://www.omohide.com | | Title of piece: | Prelude to the "Tombeau de Couperin" Suite | | Composer: | Maurice Ravel | | Duration: | 03:07 | | Critical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Video link is provided to youtube, of me playing the piece. This very recording, in fact (my mp3 is just the sound of the video).
A trip through the French countryside. In this piece, Ravel takes the listener through pentatonic, chromatic and diatonic melodies, peppered with his trademark major and minor seventh chords all along with the way, all in three charming minutes, and all grounded on the simple, pleasant pentatonic melody that opens the piece (At 0.03 and 0:44). Listen for those sublime climaxes at 0;41, 1;23 and 2;36.
I kind of butcher it a few times, and I really screwed up the very end (the "trill" type part) which should sound much more haunting than the noise I produce to finish the piece.
It's a bit quiet, turn the sound up. |
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