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PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD!I am delighted to introduce our 14th 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. Thank you.  A template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback: Recital 14 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: Recital 14 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: Recital 14 Zip 1 Recital 14 Zip 2 Recital 14 Zip 3Recital 14 Zip 4Recital 14 Zip 5Recital 14 Zip 6Recital 14 Zip 7Recital 14 Zip 8The zip files, along with past recitals, have also been uploaded to: http://www.esnips.com/web/PWRecitals Thanks to AnthonyB, a playlist containing all the YouTube videos uploaded as part of this recital can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=79577C48C0EFB5DELet 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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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | AnthonyB | | From: | Center City, MN | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year 4 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azvO8YX8uBE | | Title of piece: | Una Mattina | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 03:28 | | Source of music: | Una Mattina (Album) sheet music book | | Instrument used: | MIDI recorded on a Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | Digital piano's midi file converted using pianoteq 3 demo | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | After uploading this piece I did realize I wasn't playing the ending exactly according to the sheet music but it still sounds OK and I'm not about to lose out on my #1 spot to replace my recording. The youtube video link has the "proper" ending so feel free to watch that to hear it. |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | jazzyprof | | Experience: | Self-taught as a kid, five years of lessons in this incarnation. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Intermezzo op.118 #2 | | Composer: | J. Brahms | | Duration: | 06:57 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway B | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I hit a few clunkers but it would take me forever to make a better recording...so here goes! |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | epf | | From: | Southern California | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 50+ years off and on | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceN7jnbt9NM | | Title of piece: | Andante from Orpheo ed Euridice | | Composer: | Christoph Willibald von Gluck | | Duration: | 02:27 | | Source of music: | Sheet music. | | Instrument used: | PX-800 | | Recording method: | Direct to Zoom H4 then Audacity to normalize. For the video I used Windows Movie Maker and manually synchronized the audio and video portions. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Had a hamburger for lunch. This piece is also known as the "Dance of the Blessed Spirits." |
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | rustyfingers | | From: | Massachusetts | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 7 as a child, 4 as an adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Arietta (8 Lyric Pieces, Op. 12, No. 1) | | Composer: | Edvard Grieg | | Duration: | 01:21 | | Source of music: | Edvard Grieg: Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1989 | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, amplified in Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I would not have known about these lovely little pieces if it weren't for the ABF recitals. This is the shortest piece I have submitted, but I really like it. Hope you enjoy it to.
Burrito Grande from Boca Grande for lunch. Yummm... |
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | Carl Mc | | From: | Colorado | | Experience: | 2 years 15 yrs ago 11 months now. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Summertime.reflection | | Composer: | George Gershwin | | Duration: | 02:58 | | Source of music: | Sheet music & improvisation | | Instrument used: | Schimmel K 213 NWS | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my take on the Gerswhin standard "Summertime" from the 1935 opera "Porgy & Bess"
Beginning is baby's unrest. "Summertime" is a lulaby- mamma to baby of hope and promise. The ending is mamma's reflection on day's gone by. |
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | tekkie | | From: | California | | Experience: | 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Opus #9 | | Composer: | Dustin O'Halloran | | Duration: | 03:26 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | Riddler (Ed) | | From: | Florida | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Two or three years of lessons as a kid; two and a half 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.roadrunner.com/~riddlereader/ | | Title of piece: | Tenderly | | Composer: | Walter Gross | | Duration: | 04:09 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet, improvisation. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-120 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a jazz standard written by pianist Walter Gross, and popularized by singers like Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, and Sarah Vaughan. It was originally written as a waltz, but I am playing it in 4/4 time, as is often done. I've always thought of this as a fascinating song, especially because of the way the melody line weaves in and out of the notes of the complex chords (e.g., #11th and 13th chords). |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel | | From: | Connecticut | | Experience: | 3 years and 3 months after returning to piano. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nazareth: Confidences | | Composer: | Ernesto Nazareth | | Duration: | 05:33 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 | | Recording method: | Piano Line-Out to computer sound card Line-In. Aucacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Confidências is a charming Waltz by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934).
The first section, in a-minor really does sound like somebody whispering "confidences", or even "insinuations" to a friend.
The second section is in typical classical European Waltz form.
After the a-minor section is repeated, we get to the 3rd section, in A-major. It sounds like it's in 4/4 time, but it is actually still in Waltz time, 3/4.
The waltz ends quietly with a repeat of the first section.
My Brazilian friend tells me that when playing Brazilian music, you must let your heart guide the rhythm of the piece and add as much rubato as you like.
So I did. |
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Ode2Joy | | From: | Pasadena, CA | | Experience: | 14 months returning adult, and about 2 years as a kid a long time ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Two Part Invention in F major, No 8 | | Composer: | JS Bach | | Duration: | 01:09 | | Source of music: | JS Bach Two-Part Inventions
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Alfred Publisher | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 and Audacity for exporting as MP3 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | It is easy to let the tempo of this piece run away from you. Although I am not a huge fan of the Baroque period nor Bach, I find that the inventions I have learned so far have really helped my very weak and non-existent left hand improve.
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 15 Months, 20-30 minutes/day | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Medley: Soldiers' March, Op.68 No.2 & 12 Easy Pieces, No.2 | | Composer: | 1st piece:Schumann, 2nd piece: Haydn | | Duration: | 02:10 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Milton console | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Soldiers' March was the first tune I learned and was my backup piece in case I couldn't get my current piece 12 Easy Pieces, No.2 ready in time. They are both short pieces so I decided to submit them as a medley. Played from memory. |
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | Ejay | | From: | United Kingdom | | Experience: | nearly 3 months self taught | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | FairiesHarp(Thompson)& Little Sonata (Wilton)Ist Movement | | Composer: | John Thompson & C.H. Wilton | | Duration: | 02:09 | | Source of music: | John Thompson Modern Course red book & Classics to Moderns 1 | | Instrument used: | Roland Fantom X8 | | Recording method: | Workstation onboard facility, audacity conversion of wav. to mp3 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | HomeInMyShoes | | From: | St. John's, NL, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Twelve years of conservatory (no grades though) lessons as a kid/teenager and three years back at it since a fifteen year hiatus. I love the piano. How did I ever survive those fifteen years? | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://homeinmyshoes.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | 1er Prélude du Nazaréen | | Composer: | Eric Satie | | Duration: | 06:29 | | Source of music: | sheet music , Quatre Préludes pour piano (Editions Salabert) | | Instrument used: | Roland Fantom X8...I dream of having an acoustic piano again someday | | Recording method: | Direct resample, normalized and converted to mp3 in Wavepad. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I almost played this at my teacher's year-end recital twenty years ago. I think I ended up playing some Jarre on synthesizer instead. You guys and gals get to listen to all six and a half minutes of it (errors and all). I unfortunately had to stop and start at about the 1:50 mark (removed a bit) because my cat totally wiped out my concentration at that point.
Apparently, the 1er Prélude du Nazaréen, and it's brother the 2er were composed in 1892 as incidental music for a chivalric play. I'm still working on the 2er one and it's quite a bit more harmonically challenging, but then I'll have all four of the Quatre Préludes under my belt. You can find a recording of Prélude d'Eginhard on my home page. This work is from the pre-schola (enrollment in the Schola Cantorum to study again) time period of his compositions (other compositions from this period include the more well known Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, you can find my recordings of the Gnossiennes on my home page as well.
Outside of that, I know very little about this work. It's one of those Satie pieces with no bar lines, no time signature and outside of "Assez lent" above the staff and "p lie et expressif" at the start there are no indications of how one should play it. I've only heard one recording of it and -- in my opinion -- it was too fast and felt sharp. Hopefully I did this justice and hopefully those who know the piece can help me out with its interpretation.
While many may find the piece rather dull and uninteresting, I find the harmonies subtle and love the cadence patterns marking the piece sections. Maybe it is my pipe organ background (I started with organ lessons first for eight years or so) that adds to my love of the Quatre Préludes.
Interesting sources: Satie the Composer, by Robert Orledge |
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | Sam Smith | | From: | Georgia USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Old Geezer returning to piano after a 35 year silence | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude 21 from WTC #1 | | Composer: | JS Bach | | Duration: | 01:57 | | Instrument used: | The mighty (worn out) 50 year old Wurlitzer | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is as fast as my old hands can go. I like the left hand more legato than most recordings. |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year and 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Trip To Venice ( Voyage A Venice ) | | Composer: | Paul De Sennerville | | Duration: | 04:17 | | Source of music: | Music Sheet | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | Digital piano to PC using audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece along with "Lettre a ma mere" are the most descriptive pieces by Sennerville. When I heard it the first time without knowing the title, I could imagine myself on a boat ride, going sightseeing in a city. I also like the eastern flair of the piece. I hope you guys like it too. |
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super-Hunky | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | True Story | | Composer: | Original cover | | Duration: | 03:36 | | Source of music: | Original cover played by ear | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a simple but beautiful piece originally performed by Barbara Higbie. I was too cheap to buy the compilation book as there is no sheet music available for this piece so I played it by ear instead. |
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | Off and on for many years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avPflvapoKk | | Title of piece: | Tear My Stillhouse Down | | Composer: | Gillian Welch | | Duration: | 03:51 | | Source of music: | Play-by ear | | Instrument used: | Pramberger Grand | | Recording method: | Metro | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I play bass occasionally with some bluegrass musicians and one of my favorite songs we play is “Tear My Stillhouse Down†by Gillian Welch. I had not tried it on piano before (mostly because it’s in D, not one of my best blues keys) but I transcribed it to F and it works for me. I changed a few chords too, playing a b-flat minor rather than major for instance. I also made it a little blues-ier. No one could do this better than Gillian but I have fun playing it.
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | Schubertian | | From: | Dallas TX | | Experience: | 5 years as child; 2 years as adult (current) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Allegretto D. 915 | | Composer: | Schubert | | Duration: | 05:36 | | Source of music: | Henle edition | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Lisztener | | From: | Columbus, Ohio | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4-1/2 years - estimate | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | If You Go Away | | Composer: | Jacques Brel | | Duration: | 04:16 | | Source of music: | My arrangement based on sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway acoustic | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 as phantom power for Rode NT5 mics | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Lamenting a lifetime of lost loves and lost loved ones.
Most affective for me while playing is reading the lyrics of Chorus - 1, Refrain - 2 and Chorus - 3.
I hope you enjoy.
- English translation by American poet, Rod McKuen -
Chorus - 1
1. If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away;
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high;
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the nightbird's song,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away, if you
go away.
Refrain - 1
1. But if you stay, I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again;
We'll sail on the sun, we'll ride on the rain,
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind.
Then if you go, I will understand,
Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
Chorus - 2
1. If you go away, as I know you will,
You must tell the world to stop turning till
You return again, if you ever do,
For what good is love without loving you?
Can I tell you now, as you turn to go,
I'll be dying slow till your next hello,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away, if you
go away.
Refrain - 2
2. But if you stay, I'll make you a night
Like no night has been, or will be again;
I'll sail on your smile, I'll ride on your touch,
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much.
But if you go, go, I won't cry,
Though the good is gone from the word good-bye.
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
Chorus - 3
3. If you go away, as I know you must,
There'll be nothing left in the world to trust,
Just an empty room, full of empty space,
Like the empty look I see on your face;
I'd have been your shadow if I thought it might
Have kept me here, by your side;
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away . . .
please don't go away. |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | GreenRain | | Experience: | A little less than 9 years, but until 2008, i was never serious about piano and i never practised a lot. I had a 2 year break (2006-2008). I started playing piano in 1999, when i was around 8 years old. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata Op. 35, 3rd mvt, Marche funebre | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 08:18 | | Source of music: | Scores | | Instrument used: | Petrof upright | | Recording method: | Digital camera | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The recording might not be the best, thanks to my stupid camera. Bass is simply too loud on recording. I have to buy the good recorder before next recital. Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy it:)
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