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#1305704 - 11/14/09 11:49 PM
Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD!I am delighted to introduce our 16th 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 16 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 16 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 16 zip 1 Recital 16 zip 2Recital 16 zip 3Recital 16 zip 4 Recital 16 zip 5Recital 16 zip 6Recital 16 zip 7 Recital 16 zip 8The 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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#1305705 - 11/14/09 11:57 PM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | jazzyprof | | From: | Ann Arbor, MI | | Experience: | Self-taught as a kid. 5 years of lessons in this incarnation. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne op.48 no.1 | | Composer: | F. Chopin | | Duration: | 06:42 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway B | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I think this is the most difficult piece I have yet attempted. I hope I didn't butcher it too much!:) Isn't Chopin just amazing?!!! |
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#1305706 - 11/14/09 11:58 PM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel | | From: | Connecticut | | Experience: | 3 years 9 months since I started playing again. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bersagliera | | Composer: | Manuel Maria Ponce | | Duration: | 02:24 | | Source of music: | This extremely rare sheet music was very kindly transcribed for me from the Hector Rojas recording of Ponce's "Complete Works for the Piano" by a tremendously talented friend. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 | | Recording method: | Keyboard line-out to computer sound card line-in. Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Manuel Maria Ponce's Bersagliera is a very jaunty, energetic piece, with a little Baroque feel to it.
This is one of Ponce's rarest, most difficult-to-find pieces. Only one recording exists, and it is out of print.
Bersagliera is in three sections, A, B, and C, played in the order ABBCAB.
The first section has a staccato melody in the right hand and a nice work-out for the left.
The second section has the second melody mostly in thirds, with a triplet accompaniment.
The third section is for those who love lots of octaves.
This is one of my favorite pieces. It's such fun to play!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy playing it for you. |
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#1305708 - 11/14/09 11:58 PM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | epf | | From: | Southern California | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 50+ years with lots of long breaks. I've been playing regularly for the last two years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUo8UVODnyU | | Title of piece: | Prelude No. 16 in Db Major | | Composer: | Robert D. Vandall | | Duration: | 01:57 | | Source of music: | Complete collection of Preludes by Robert D. Vandall (sheet music) | | Instrument used: | Privia PX-800 | | Recording method: | Direct to Zoom H4 then normalized with Audacity. Video shot with Mino FlipVideo and resulting file edited in Windows Movie Maker to synchronize with the audio and to add titles. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is certainly one of the prettiest of the preludes and I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. As a result I ordered the complete collection of preludes.
Had French Toast for dinner tonight. |
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#1305716 - 11/15/09 12:17 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | Ode2Joy | | From: | So Cal | | Experience: | Returning adult since Jan 2008; several years as a child | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Piano Sonata in C, K330 Andante cantabile (2nd movement) | | Composer: | W A Mozart | | Duration: | 04:07 | | Source of music: | Henle Album: Piano Music from Bach to Debussy | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 --> MP3 conversion with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I didn't take the repeats with this movement. The "cantabile" quality needed for this piece still eludes me, but here's my best shot at it. I'm a huge Mozart fan.
potstickers and cantaloupe |
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#1305717 - 11/15/09 12:17 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | Experience: | 1 3/4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | German Dance in A Major, WoO.13, No. 11 | | Composer: | Beethoven | | Duration: | 00:53 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Milton Spinet | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was the 2nd piece I learned after starting last year. I try to keep all the pieces I've learnt in my rotation so as not to forget them. This short piece was deceptively hard because of the percusive action of one hand while the other is playing sustained notes and vice versa, while playing it in a refined manner.
Thanks in advance for listening and any comments. |
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#1305718 - 11/15/09 12:19 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super-Hunky | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Cristofori's Dream | | Composer: | David Lanz | | Duration: | 06:25 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I used to improvise as a way to avoid the difficult sections of a piece I could not play. This is what a hack does and I did the math!
In an effort to redeem myself, I need to resubmit a few pieces (which I will over time) and perform them correctly as written. This is my first one.
It's certainly not perfect but at 6 min, 9 pages and NO editing, my nerves are shot.....Phew! |
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#1305719 - 11/15/09 12:21 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year and 9 months (I gave wrong info in the last recital) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Autumn River | | Composer: | Me | | Duration: | 02:39 | | Source of music: | self composition | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | DP to computer via Line In, Audacity to remove noise. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Originally I planned another piece for the recital. This one came up when I tried to write some simple tune for my 8 years old to play. The whole song has only 2 chords. While I like the melody of the other one better, I think my playing on this one is a little bit better (despite some clunkers) |
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#1305723 - 11/15/09 12:26 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | Many years of knocking around blues, folk and rock and then a few years of serious study. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/Biffer5#p/a/u/1/OTgYDJu3umY | | Home page link: | http://www.peytonart.com | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in Bflat Minor Op.9.1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 05:43 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger YC grand | | Recording method: | digital using Mac/metro | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I worked on this nocturne along with 72.1 for the nocturne recital. This was the first Chopin piece that I ever fell in love with. I learned it many years ago and had to relearn it for the recital. I had a heck of a time recording it.. one of those times where you get one part just perfect and then ruin another. I settled for this take although I messed up the ending by leaving out a measure. |
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#1305727 - 11/15/09 12:37 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Sam Smith | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Several years as a kid, a couple of years as an adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Song Without Words, Opus 19/4 | | Composer: | Mendelssohn | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha UX1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My piano bench creaks... |
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#1305728 - 11/15/09 12:38 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | kokomo61 | | From: | Oak Hill, VA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years formal lessons, a bunch of self-taught lead sheet fakery. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.holliworks.com | | Title of piece: | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Adagio Cantabile | | Composer: | Ludwig Van Beethoven | | Duration: | 04:59 | | Source of music: | John Thompson Modern Course for the Piano Level 5 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Direct to Garage Band, convert to MP3, post to forum. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I would have liked to have done this on the Estonia, but my iMac blew up its encrypted hard drive, and I've been working on restoring it for about a week now. I had to pull a previous version off of Box.Net just to make sure I had a submission this time around. |
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#1305729 - 11/15/09 12:39 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | flyingfroggy | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year of lessons at age 6, then about 10 years as adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne #20 in C# minor (posth.) | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:39 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Konzert Grand K 189 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had a really bad case of “red dot syndrome.” I should be embarrassed to tell you how many times I pushed that red dot, but suffice it to say that after totally screwing up the (easy) third to last measure of take number 17, I decided to rerecord the last section. I hope you enjoy one of my favorite Chopin nocturnes, complete with a few wrong notes, several hesitations, and one edit. |
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#1305730 - 11/15/09 12:41 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | Glen R. | | From: | Alberta, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 6 months with lessons (a few years tinkering before that). | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz (Op. 39, No. 15) | | Composer: | Johannes Brahms | | Duration: | 01:07 | | Source of music: | Piano: 2nd Time Around (Bastien and Bastien) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP-140 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first piece that I've played with the pedal, so it's the first piece I've played that I really enjoy listening to :-).
I had a PB&J sandwich. Tasted pretty good, since I haven't really felt like eating for the past few days :-) |
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#1305731 - 11/15/09 12:42 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | HomeInMyShoes (HIMS, Homey, Home, Aaron) | | From: | St. John's, NL, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | enough to know better by now | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://homeinmyshoes.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Trois Gnossiennes | | Composer: | Erik Satie | | Duration: | 06:39 | | Source of music: | Sheet. Erik Satie Piano Album. J.B Cramer & Co | | Instrument used: | Roland Fantom X8 | | Recording method: | straight resampling | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love these three little pieces., especially No. 2 with the hypnotic running eight notes. I also enjoy all the little interpretation notes written in French above the music, although I'm still a little fuzzy on how one would play something "sans orgueil" or "seul, pendant un instant".
I had leftover spaghetti for lunch and a ginger ale. Burp. Excuse me. |
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#1305732 - 11/15/09 12:42 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Kalai1/Chris | | From: | Hawaii | | Experience: | 4 years 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.koawoodhawaii.com | | Title of piece: | Leo O Kapo (voice of the night) | | Composer: | Chris Allen | | Duration: | 03:15 | | Source of music: | Self taught, play by ear | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 piano | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I hope you like my music, please comment, aloha.
I have never played infront of people and I dont think more than 12 people have ever heard me play the piano, since I am self taught I don't know if I can say I can play the piano or should I say I play around with the piano. I also do not know what chords I am playing or anything like that, I tought myself by listening to George Winston and then trying to play his music then I was able wo write my own pieces, please critique, thanks and aloha.
Chris "Kalai1" |
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#1305733 - 11/15/09 12:44 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | 2 years and 4 month of piano playing (plus a few years of accordion and guitar playing more than 26 years ago) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Stranger in Paradise & Love Letters (medley) | | Composer: | R.Wright & G.Forrest / V. Young | | Duration: | 06:26 | | Source of music: | Lead sheets | | Instrument used: | DP Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | DP to audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the 1953 musical Kismet and is credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on music composed by Alexander Borodin, in this case, the "Gliding Dance of the Maidens," from the Polovetsian Dance. – Wikipedia
"Love Letters" is a 1945 popular song with music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman. The song appeared, without lyrics, in the movie of the same name. – Wikipedia
I couldn’t decide which one to submit so I merged them into a medley.
Creating my versions of these two beautiful tunes out of lead sheets – you know, only melodies and chords - presented a fantastic experience to me. As somebody wrote, “faking” music from lead sheets (contained in the fake books) gives you the freedom to stylize a song your own way, rather than to play it as arranged in a sheet music version. So far there is not even one tune I learned from a full piano score ... “Faking” a tune (I love the term!) really gives you a tremendous freedom in all imaginable ways. The slightest note depends on you, quality of every chord, tempo and so on. It can’t be compared to “classical” playing i.e. playing from sheet music where even one additional note means a mistake.
Trying to describe the style they are in I would say it’s bordering cocktail piano, maybe, but really maybe pop jazz. At least I did my best to give them the jazzy flavor, as I see it. Have I succeeded? As always it’s up to you to decide  .
They are not a pro renditions, far from it, they are only adult beginner’s ones but nonetheless I hope you will like it.
I will never be a good classical pianist but being a decent "faker" would make one of my piano dreams come true. There are tons of beautiful tunes out there which can be "retold" one more time in a different way, even by an adult beginner “faker” .
P.S.
At the end of the strings of my recordings I switched my FP-7 to jazz scat tone. I liked the result so much ( the jazzy flavor! ) that I couldn’t resist the temptation to share it with you.
I truly hope doing it I didn’t break the recital's rules – it was piano played so was piano related |
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#1305734 - 11/15/09 12:45 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Sandy Moore | | From: | Nova Scotia | | Experience: | 8 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Hills of Purple Heather | | Composer: | Martha Mier | | Duration: | 01:46 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Roland Digital | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Healthy lunch of veggies and chicken....repenting after the weekend.
I learned this for my Scottish brother-in-law..but I haven't played it for him yet!! He lives in Saudi Arabia...perhaps I'll send him the mp3 |
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#1305735 - 11/15/09 12:45 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | b528nf7 (Bill) | | From: | Gaithersburg, Maryland | | Experience: | 6 1/2 Years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2d8bACOkw | | Title of piece: | Layla | | Composer: | Eric Clapton/Jim Gordon | | Duration: | 03:34 | | Source of music: | Hal Leonard Fake Book | | Instrument used: | Roland KR17M Digital Grand Piano | | Recording method: | Flip Video HD | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a piano/vocal of the 1970 Derek and the Dominoes song from their Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album. I used a harpsicord voice for the piano solo portion of the song to provide a little contrast plus I like the way it sounds. |
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#1305736 - 11/15/09 12:46 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Todd Vance | | From: | Bowie, MD | | Experience: | About 9 months, after a long hiatus after 2.5 years childhood lessons. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonatina (Clementi, Op. 56 No. 3) | | Composer: | Muzio Clementi | | Duration: | 06:53 | | Source of music: | Piano Literature Vol. 3 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YP-400 keyboard | | Recording method: | Audacity, as 7 files (4 for first mvt., repeats not done to save time, one for 2nd mvt., one for 3rd mvt.) concatenated. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I should have put some more empty space between movements. |
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#1305738 - 11/15/09 12:47 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | Bunneh | | From: | Germany | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 15 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Première Gymnopédie | | Composer: | Erik Satie | | Duration: | 03:51 | | Source of music: | Edition: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2006 | | Instrument used: | Roland HP-203 | | Recording method: | Line out to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A favorite of mine, and one of those melodies that everyone seems to know and love. The piece proved to be far more challenging than it looks and sounds at first glance.
It seems every single note has to sound just right or you've instantly ruined the piece. Considering that this includes some big pp chords that need to be voiced carefully, it gave me quite a headache.
It's listed as a BC grade 8 piece, and I suppose to really get everything out of it you do need a lot of experience at the keyboard. But I think even a beginner can make it sound like music! Listen and judge yourself whether you think I'm right 
Critical comments and suggestions are, as always, very welcome! |
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#1305740 - 11/15/09 12:51 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | salzdt | | From: | Greenport, New York | | Experience: | Four years as a teen/young adult. Returned two year ago after 45 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Kupelwieser Waltz | | Composer: | Franz Schubert | | Duration: | 02:40 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha G1 | | Recording method: | Zoom Q3 audio, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Franz Schubert, story has it that he composed this for his friend Paul Kupelwieser, and played it at his wedding. It was played by ear from generation to generation. In 1943, Richard Strauss transcribed it. This is not an easy piece to play for someone like myself, but I really enjoyed learning it, hopefully I will be able to improve in good time. I hit the Red Dot many many times! This is my first try at the ABF Recital, pardon the few bluppers! |
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#1305741 - 11/15/09 12:52 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 21 | | | 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: | Easy Living | | Composer: | Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin | | Duration: | 07:00 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-120 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This song was originally written for the movies. It was later recorded by Billie Holiday, and has since become a jazz standard. |
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#1305744 - 11/15/09 12:53 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | cscl | | From: | Suburban Chicago | | Experience: | 3 years, 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Kuhlau Sonatina Op. 55, No. 2, I-II | | Composer: | Friedrich Kuhlau | | Duration: | 04:32 | | Source of music: | Sonatina Album (Schirmer Performance Editions) | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The self-proclaimed Sonatina King of the ABF Recitals returns with another installment. The 2nd movement will be on my live recital later in November along with a short Handel Prelude. I'm also working on the third movement, but it wasn't ready for inclusion this time around. I wish I could get those scale runs into better shape in the first movement! I did some slight editing in the first movement and left out the repeats. The second movement was as I recorded it with all repeats. |
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#1305745 - 11/15/09 12:53 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | Schubertian | | From: | Dallas | | Experience: | 7 years as a child/teenager; 3 years up to present | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Hungarian Melody (D817) | | Composer: | Schubert | | Duration: | 02:58 | | Source of music: | Henle | | Instrument used: | Estonia grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H2; audacity;
digital manipulation: I used audacity to 'normalize' the signal strength to -7 dB (with respect to what they don't say); I recorded the piece in 2 takes and spliced them together because the page turn is not possible without a break | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | There is also a piano-4 hands version of this piece called Divertissement a l'Hongroise which is quite long (it's 15 minutes) and virtuosic. The Deutsch catalog number for that is D818 - so this 2 hand version I recorded may have been enough of a hit for Schubert to snazz it up. He wrote both pieces when he spent a summer at the Esterhazy's giving music lessons to the daughters there about 2 years before he died.
Naturally I hate my recording - someday the 16 note double notes will be smoother and the whole thing will sound more suave and less frantic. |
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#1305746 - 11/15/09 12:54 AM
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | kawaigirl1 | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Played as a kid. Had picked up piano again in Dec of 2005. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Like the wind | | Composer: | Stanton Lanier | | Duration: | 04:18 | | Source of music: | Stanton Lanier's Draw Near Solo Piano Book | | Instrument used: | Roland RD300sx | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had to give myself a good kick in the ars to get a piece recorded, so here it is. |
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#1305747 - 11/15/09 12:54 AM
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | Carl Mc | | From: | Colorado | | Experience: | 18 months - this time around | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Piano Sonata No. 14 OP 27/2 1st Mvt (Moonlight Sonata) | | Composer: | Ludwig van Beethoven | | Duration: | 06:06 | | Source of music: | Sheet music Concert Performer Series | | Instrument used: | Schimmel K213NWS | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I started this way back when and then picked it back up this summer. It is still a work in progress. Baseline is there, but I still need to work on the finer nuaunces of the piece. There are a couple of stumbles, and the pace is a bit faster than the 6:20ish I usually play. I am still trying to find my own pace with this piece, but I am thinking I like this pace best.
My favorite part of the piece is the ending- it seems to unravel to resolve.
Feedback on areas to work on is appreciated. |
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#1305749 - 11/15/09 12:55 AM
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | Triryche (Rich) | | From: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | In God's Hands | | Composer: | David Nevue | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Source of music: | http://davidnevue.com/sheetmusic.htm | | Instrument used: | Yamaha S90es | | Recording method: | Digital to PC using Reaper | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Although not diligent focused practice, I have been trying to finish this piece for over a year. This recording is not the entire piece. Unfortunately for lunch I had a double deluxe bacon cheeseburger from Culver's (bad weekend nutrition wise) |
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#1305750 - 11/15/09 12:57 AM
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | Jazzwee | | From: | Los Angeles | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Autumn Leaves - Rhythmic Play | | Composer: | Improvised | | Duration: | 03:06 | | Source of music: | The changes are from Autumn Leaves but this is completely improvised except for the variant melody at the beginning. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P155 - Played using Electric Piano 2 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Although I've posted a zillion versions of Autumn Leaves in ABF, I've never done so in a recital. What makes this different is that it is a Rhythmic experiment. It makes use of a device called 3 against 4 (overlaying 3/4 over 4/4) and I weave in and out of that ala Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. In retrospect, I would have preferred to have recorded with a piano sound but too late. This was exempt from the Red Dot apparently Done in one take. Enjoy! And lunch I believe was a Brunch buffet |
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#1305751 - 11/15/09 12:57 AM
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | Frotz (Brian) | | From: | Utah | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Notturno (Op.54 No.4) | | Composer: | Edvard Grieg | | Duration: | 04:51 | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A few edits were made to remove mistakes and family interruptions. Some mistakes and family interruptions remain. |
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#1305752 - 11/15/09 12:58 AM
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | Monica K. | | From: | Lexington, Kentucky | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Approximately 5 1/2 on piano, 7 on accordion as child. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgJxYsO7MnA | | Title of piece: | Quel Che Resta | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 04:34 | | Source of music: | Sheet music. | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin A | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 for mp3 file; Zoom Q3 for video | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The title of this piece translates roughly into "Those that remain." The tempo is marked "scorrevole" which is Italian for Way Too Freakin' Fast. Dynamics and accents make or break this piece, so it's been a good learning experience for me all around.
Lunch today was Lean Cuisine Fettucine Carbonara. |
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#1305754 - 11/15/09 12:59 AM
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | Copper | | From: | Virginia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Air | | Composer: | Henry Purcell | | Duration: | 00:46 | | Source of music: | The Piano Handbook by Carl Humphries | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P250 | | Recording method: | Connect to computer | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1305755 - 11/15/09 12:59 AM
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | | From: | Santa Fe | | Experience: | 2 year of lessons in my early teens, 30+ years hiatus, playing dance music since 1995. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sentimental Journey | | Composer: | Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer | | Duration: | 02:20 | | Source of music: | 34 Hit Parade Extras Song Folio, Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc., 1952 One of my Mom's books. | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-100 | | Recording method: | digital to pc using audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Lunch - does anyone else mix peanut butter and mayo for salad dressing? I thought not.
I've played this for several years, and recently revived it to add to my Adult Day Care Center gig repertoire. This recording is really short because once again I quit while I was ahead |
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#1305756 - 11/15/09 01:03 AM
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | Eighty8 | | From: | Dayton, Ohio | | Experience: | I had lessons as a teenager, then was without a piano for many years. I took six months of piano lessons in 2007 and
have been practicing on my own since then. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Summer Knows | | Composer: | Michel Legrand | | Duration: | 01:48 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P22 | | Recording method: | Shure mic to tape deck to PC. Edit and convert to mp3 with Goldwave. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | In 1972 Michel Legrand won a Grammy Award [Song of the year] for "The Summer Knows" from the movie Summer of '42. |
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#1305757 - 11/15/09 01:04 AM
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | ten left thumbs | | From: | Scotland | | Experience: | too many to remember! | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Clair de Lune | | Composer: | Debussy | | Duration: | 05:05 | | Source of music: | sheet | | Instrument used: | acoustic | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This isn't perfect, but it's the best I can do. I haven't played classical for a while, but was lured back to this piece when a friend asked me to teach her how to play it. I had no idea how beautiful it was until I attempted it myself. I hope, with this effort, I have done it at least some justice. |
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#1305758 - 11/15/09 01:04 AM
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | pianonewb | | From: | Northern Virginia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | about 9 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | God on the Mountain | | Composer: | The McKamey's | | Duration: | 03:19 | | Source of music: | Play by ear/impovised. | | Instrument used: | Casio PX 120 DP | | Recording method: | DP into mixer into line in on computer.
Vocals:Oktava MK 319 LD condenser mic into mixer then to line in.
Cakewalk Home Sudio 2004 software. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is an older Southern Gospel song. The copy I have has bass, drums acoustic guitar, etc., but the piano is completely different than the version I play. Vocals and piano recorded simultaneously in one pass.No editing except for the addition of reverb and a slight bit of compression on the vocal track. Piano track has no added effects.
On a side note, it is kinda nice to "perform" in my robe and underwear.LOL |
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#1305759 - 11/15/09 01:04 AM
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | Jillian | | From: | Far Western Chicago suburbs | | Experience: | one and a half years (I'm 7, almost 8 years old) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Morning Prelude | | Composer: | Bastien | | Duration: | 01:09 | | Source of music: | Page 35 of the Bastien Level 1 Piano Basics Book | | Instrument used: | Casio Ap-200 | | Recording method: | I recorded it, dad (Always Wanted to Play the Piano) did the rest | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I chose my song ("Morning Prelude") because it was my first song I got to use the pedal on. I have thought it sounded really pretty, and I hope you do, too.
For lunch, I was going to have a footlong hot dog, but I changed my mind and had a chef salad instead, with jello, french fries and milk. |
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#1305760 - 11/15/09 01:05 AM
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Always Wanted to Play Piano | | From: | 41 miles west of Chicago | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Almost two years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://aw2pp.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Sonatina Op.36 No.1 in C major - 1: Spritoso | | Composer: | Clementi | | Duration: | 02:04 | | Source of music: | Schirmer Sonatina Album | | Instrument used: | Casio Ap-200 | | Recording method: | Recorded to onboard memory, downloaded using Red Dot Fever, converted to wave using Synthfont and piano soundfont maestro_concert_grand_v2.gig, rendered to MP3 using Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was a real stretch piece for me, my first foray into classical music. Wish I had been a little more consistent with tempo, but overall I'm happy with this recording. |
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#1305762 - 11/15/09 01:06 AM
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | mahlzeit | | From: | Netherlands | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | A little over 4 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.originalsolopiano.com | | Title of piece: | "Up" Theme | | Composer: | Michael Giacchino | | Duration: | 03:15 | | Source of music: | Transcribed from the movie using Transcribe! and my ears. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP33 digital stage piano + Synthogy Ivory 1.72.01 virtual instrument. | | Recording method: | MIDI into Red Dot Forever, converted to WAV using Ivory Cantabile with the Bosendorfer Imperial 10 preset, normalized and truncated in Audacity, converted to MP3 using WinLame. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was a rush job. I spent an afternoon transcribing this piece and making my own arrangement, then two evenings learning it and recording it. I'm not happy with the final recording (as always) but it was a good challenge, so I guess I'm happy with it after all. |
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#1305763 - 11/15/09 01:06 AM
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | 1WeekPlayer | | From: | Spain | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 12 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet in F major BWV Anh 113 (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) | | Composer: | Unknown | | Duration: | 02:13 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland Hp-207 | | Recording method: | DP headphone line into my Macbook Pro line-in | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Hope you like it. |
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#1305765 - 11/15/09 01:07 AM
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | Piano Again | | From: | Washington, DC metro area | | Experience: | 47, minus a 25-year break in the middle. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.mymusiclifeblog.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I | | Composer: | J. S. Bach | | Duration: | 03:55 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (Kalmus edition) | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 wav file saved as mp3 in Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Getting this to recordability had me tearing my hair out. I ended up splicing together the best prelude take with the best fugue take. It's still not how I'd hoped it would come out, but it was well worth trying. I have even more respect now for people who record anything longer than 4 minutes.
I followed the Kalmus edition's notes and did not use any of the possible variants from different manuscripts. Some pianists play a few things differently (notably Jeno Jando, on the Naxos collection). |
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#1305768 - 11/15/09 01:10 AM
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| 40 | | | Performer's name: | CMohr | | From: | Oregon | | Experience: | Lessons from 7-11 years old. Two classes in college - one in keyboard harmony & one in classical. Back to lessons now for 3 and a half months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Mazurka op.67 no. 3 | | Composer: | Frederic Chopin | | Duration: | 01:56 | | Source of music: | Schirmer's Chopin Mazurkas - ed. Joseffy | | Instrument used: | 1906 Wellington upright. (The same piano I learned on when I was a kid.) | | Recording method: | Canon video camera to garageband | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love this short mazurka. I am newly acquainted with Chopin and want to learn so many of his works. I have a couple glaring mistakes in my submission and (sorry!) tape hiss. I hope everyone can ignore the tape noise. |
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#1305769 - 11/15/09 01:10 AM
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| 41 | | | Performer's name: | grotrianer | | From: | Germany | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Many years, on and off. Restarted playing in early 2008, restarted lessons in late 2008. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | La plus que lente | | Composer: | Claude Debussy | | Duration: | 03:44 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Sauter Delta | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Debussy composed this Slow Waltz in 1910, which places it among his mature works for piano. The title, literally translated as "The more than slow", should not be mistaken for a tempo direction (Debussy's own interpretation is available on youtube, and it is faster than mine), but be interpreted as a way of saying "The Slow Waltz to outdo all others" (Frank Howes), which, combined with Debussy's statement that "it was written to suit the taste of ladies who take tea", makes clear the composer's ironical attitude towards this work. However, as Gerald Larner notes, "it is impossible to hear its hesitantly syncopated G flat major
main theme, its harmonic suspensions, its appassionato outcry in right-hand octaves, even its apparently aimless continuity and its drawn-out ending without detecting, and sharing, an affection for the object of his irony."
(Sources: wikipedia and http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W12248)
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This is often considered one of the less demanding piece of Debussy's, but there are a number of tricky spots that made my recording sessions a nightmare, given that I underestimated the task of bringing it to Red Dot Performance Level. The take that I chose has one disaster, a few glitches and insecurities and a bit of music in between. |
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#1305771 - 11/15/09 01:11 AM
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| 42 | | | Performer's name: | Andy Mann - Manndrew | | From: | Merowest - Massachusetts | | Experience: | Let's just say I've been playing since you could ride the entire metro Boston MBTA system for 25 cents. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Time On My Hands | | Composer: | Vincent Youmans: Melody, Harold Adamson: Lyrics | | Duration: | 06:41 | | Source of music: | This was taken from a sheet music transcription of Keith Jarrett's performance at Carnegie Hall in 2005. | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | I used a Zoom H4 directly connected to the Roland Fp-7 and then normalized with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Some of the standards played by Jarrett are surprisingly straight forward in their style. Here and there you do have his characteristic interpretations and flourishes which can be tricky - One of these runs I messed up on - and his rhythms are very tough to follow at times, but in general the standards collection can be played. I hope to do a few more in the future. |
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#1305772 - 11/15/09 01:12 AM
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| 43 | | | Performer's name: | Yamaha G3 & P-80 Mike White | | From: | 90 miles West of New Orleans | | Experience: | Lifetime by ear, self-teaching 4 or 5 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Military Polonaise Op 40. No. 1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:17 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece is level 8 and way above my head. |
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#1305774 - 11/15/09 01:15 AM
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| 44 | | | Performer's name: | Euan Morrison | | From: | Edinburgh, Scotland | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Just passed the 4 year mark | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.flickriver.com/photos/euanzkamera/ | | Title of piece: | I'm Going to Make a Cake | | Composer: | Philip Glass | | Duration: | 04:10 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP-113 | | Recording method: | Used Galaxy 2 Pianos (Steinway), and also Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Glass is a composer who seems to divide people. I fall on the side of being a fan of his work. I love the repetitiveness, the chord progressions and also the occasional <crash> of a low octave!
This piece is taken from The Hours soundtrack. Originally recorded for piano and strings, the sheet music is for solo piano. |
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#1305775 - 11/15/09 01:15 AM
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| 45 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | 8 years adult lessons | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Italian Concerto (Presto movement) | | Composer: | J. S. Bach | | Duration: | 08:37 | | Source of music: | Alfred Edition, J.S. Bach, Italian Concerto | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Grand Piano in a practice room at Clarke College. | | Recording method: | Zoom H2
normalized with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I have worked on "Presto" the third movement of Bach's Italian Concerto for one full year. I play the piece at less than half of the suggested tempo and will need much more refining of dynamics and articulation in the years to come. |
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#1305776 - 11/15/09 01:16 AM
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| 46 | | | Performer's name: | bluekeys | | Experience: | 3 years, 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Invention #4 | | Composer: | JS Bach | | Duration: | 01:17 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C1 (5'3" Baby Grand) | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The second long trill in the piece is done with the left hand and is very difficult to do without losing the rhythm. I still have work to do, but it's gotten better from preparing for the recital. This is the 3rd Bach Invention I've tried, and I hope someday to do them all. |
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#1305777 - 11/15/09 01:16 AM
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| 47 | | | Performer's name: | John Frank | | From: | PA | | Experience: | 4 years (on Nov. 15th) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Leaves on the Seine | | Composer: | David Lanz | | Duration: | 05:10 | | Source of music: | Narada New Age Easy Piano Sampler (Hal Leonard, Pub.) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CVP-301 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | David Lanz has been composing/playing very beautiful and exciting works of New Age or Contemporary Instrumental music since the 1980s, and is considered by many to be one of the acknowledged "masters of the genre".
"Leaves" is generally recognized as his second most popular and famous piece, right behind the awesome classic "Christofori's Dream" (see Mr Super_Hunky's submission in this Recital).
The version I play is somewhat simplified, although I don't know exactly how much. For one thing, David's version of the more complex "run" passages near the end seem to involve a series of alternating 16th notes, while this simplified version consists of 8th notes in that section. But, I hope it - both the simplified version and my playing of it - captures the essential beauty and heartfelt emotional essence of David's brilliant and gorgeous conception.
I very often modify or rearrange pieces to enhance them in one way or another. I have NOT done that with this arrangement - except to add the very last note, which simply "demanded" to be played (as notes sometimes do).
At over 5 minutes this is easily the longest piece I've ever recorded. It was a joy to study and is a joy to play, and it is played here from memory.
Enjoy! JF |
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#1305778 - 11/15/09 01:16 AM
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| 48 | | | Performer's name: | TX-Dennis (Dennis Turner) | | From: | Texas (Midland-Odessa) | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Forever and a day | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Suicide Is Painless | | Composer: | Mike Altman & Johnny Mandel | | Duration: | 02:42 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (Advanced Piano Solos Encyclopedia, arr. Tom Roed) | | Instrument used: | Kawai GE-30 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This recording is not perfect, but I am frustrated. I sat down to record another piece. I tried about 10 takes and something went wrong every time. Then I decided to go to this piece. I thought I had the recorder on and played a near perfect take. I said, "that's it!", got up, went to the Zoom, and it was on standby! This is the next take, and it's not as good, but it will do.
I haven't had lunch yet. but I'm thinking beef burrito smothered in queso. |
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#1305779 - 11/15/09 01:17 AM
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| 49 | | | Performer's name: | Undone | | From: | Connecticut | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year 10 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Theme from “The Unfinished Symphony” | | Composer: | Franz Schubert | | Duration: | 01:55 | | Source of music: | Alfred’s Adult All-In-One Book 3 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YPD-635 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Not the type of piece I’m accustomed to playing, but one that was fun to learn. |
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#1305780 - 11/15/09 01:17 AM
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| 50 | | | Performer's name: | GregF | | From: | South Carolina | | Experience: | Almost 3 years back at it, after a 30 year break from elementary school age lessons. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sleeping Through September | | Composer: | Peter Friesen | | Duration: | 01:45 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet - Pop Piano Pro Vol. 1 | | Instrument used: | Digital Piano - Yamaha YPG-625 | | Recording method: | Micromemo attachment for Ipod - direct line in from DP to the Micromemo attachment. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | There seems to be a problem with my recording setup. I'm getting some skip problems near the end. If I can get a good recording, I'll resubmit and you won't see this write up. If not, sorry for the bad audio at the end! |
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#1305781 - 11/15/09 01:17 AM
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| 51 | | | Performer's name: | ShiroKuro | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 10.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | While the Trees Sleep | | Composer: | David Nevue | | Duration: | 05:57 | | Source of music: | Sheet music purchased from David Nevue's website | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Arius 160 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 (recorded in MP3 from beginning, oops) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first recital I've participated in for a while, the first since returning to the US, and the first without my beloved upright. It's really nice to be back participating more actively! |
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#1305782 - 11/15/09 01:19 AM
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| 52 | | | Performer's name: | EJR (Elwyn) | | From: | Bristol, UK | | Experience: | Several years of lessons as a kid when I practiced, quite a few more when I didn't! It's about 35 years since my last lesson. This time around I have been playing again on and off for about 3.75 yrs and pretty consistently for the last 18 months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://elwynrees.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/abf-recital-16-ich-ruf-zu-dir-herr-jesu-christ-i-call-on-thee-lord-bwv-639-%e2%80%93-study-stats/#more-314 | | Title of piece: | "Ich ruf', zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" [I call on Thee, Lord] BWV 639 | | Composer: | Bach-Busoni | | Duration: | 03:42 | | Source of music: | Sheet music - memorised | | Instrument used: | An old Yamaha Clavinova CLP350 as a MIDI controller to a Laptop running Modartt Pianoteq 3.05 software emulator and Asio4all drivers. Using the M3 Recording option | | Recording method: | Recorded in Pianoteq, exported as a wave and converted to MP3 with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Busoni's piano transcription of Bach's Organ Chorale Prelude. This is the third I've attempted and I think I prefer Busoni's transcriptions to Bach's originals! The "home page link" points to my study stats summary for this piece. I think this was the final recording attempt.... |
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#1305783 - 11/15/09 01:19 AM
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| 53 | | | Performer's name: | Mateusz 'Mati' Papiernik | | From: | Lodz, Poland | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | At the moment of recording, 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFI3wwwmno | | Title of piece: | Tooi hi no Kizuato | | Composer: | Takumi Masanori | | Duration: | 02:25 | | Source of music: | Sheet music by Josh Aggardo | | Instrument used: | Kawai CN21 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC, then Garritan Steinway Standard | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wanted to submit something new, but due to many reasons I had to fall back to something I recorded almost a year ago. I hope you don't mind. That piece was very emotional for me, I recorded it as a part of my Valentine gift for my not-really a girlfriend. The story behind the piece (it's a background music from Suzuka) was quite sad and moving, as was the whole anime series. It quite well depicted my state of mind and heart back then - from one side, very passionate, and from the other, full of sorrow.
Even though it's not new, I hope you'll enjoy to this little piece.
Oh, and by the way, I had a plain cheese sandwich today :P |
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#1305784 - 11/15/09 01:19 AM
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| 54 | | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | | From: | Cleveland, OH | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | I have played for 40 years, but just started taking lessons for the first time in January 2009. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Reverie | | Composer: | Debussy | | Duration: | 04:53 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 | | Recording method: | Tascam Digital Pocketstudio using built-in mic | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm discovering the value of a good teacher (and lots of practice). Never would have even considered trying to play something like this a year ago. Kind of feel about this piece the same way I felt about my first baby - having put so much effort into it, I have now fallen in love with it, and I don't know how I'll ever do the same with another. |
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#1305785 - 11/15/09 01:22 AM
Re: Recital #16 --- November 15, 2009
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| 55 | | | Performer's name: | Musictuary | | From: | Aurora, Illinois, USA | | Experience: | Six years of lessons as a child (7-13)
30 years playing on and off. More off than on.
Currently taking piano lessons for the past two years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | In The Groove | | Composer: | Mike Cornick | | Duration: | 01:04 | | Source of music: | ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) Grade 5 2009-2010 | | Instrument used: | Digital Piano - Kawai CE200 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC using Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was one of three pieces that I learned for my grade 5 exam which I took in April of this year. It is a jazzy piece composed by Mike Cornick who is a British music teacher and composer who composes in different genres such as pop, jazz, and classical.
As I had previously submitted this piece in a piano bar earlier this year, I wanted to submit another piece for this recital. However due to time constraints, I decided to submit this piece.
I liked this piece instantly when I first heard it and hope you will like it too.
Thanks for listening. |
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#1305786 - 11/15/09 01:22 AM
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| 56 | | | 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: | Elves' Dance - Elverdans (Alfedanse) - Elfentanz, Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 4. | | Composer: | Edvard Grieg | | Duration: | 01:43 | | Source of music: | Edvard Grieg Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1989 | | Instrument used: | Steinway grand something (I "borrowed" the piano at church.) | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, normalized in audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a fun little piece. It was especially cool to practice it around Halloween. I had homemade chicken soup for lunch--perfect for our monsoon day. |
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#1305787 - 11/15/09 01:22 AM
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| 57 | | | Performer's name: | ddh - Daniel | | From: | Abitibi | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years already | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Polskie Drogi (Polish Roads) | | Composer: | Andrzej Kurylewicz | | Duration: | 03:21 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | CVP307 Yamaha | | Recording method: | Piano to Mac and Sound Studio | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a wonderful piece introduced so eloquently by Mati, last year. I don't pretend to play it half as well as he did but I hope You will enjoy it, nonetheless. Pancakes and maple syrup. Cheers |
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#1305788 - 11/15/09 01:23 AM
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| 58 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 years before + 3 years since 2006 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRjB-EBedWo | | Home page link: | http://www.zenphoto.ca | | Title of piece: | Greensleeves | | Composer: | David Nevue | | Duration: | 03:43 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Digital Piano Roland FP7 + NI Akoustic Piano software | | Recording method: | Software piano with NI Akoustic Piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I gave myself an extra week of hard practice before i submit my piece and it shows.
Positive and negative feedback are welcome. |
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#1305790 - 11/15/09 01:23 AM
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| 59 | | | Performer's name: | LisztAddict | | From: | Florida | | Experience: | lost count | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3rtfHzG9c | | Title of piece: | Praeludium BWV 999 in C minor | | Composer: | J.S. Bach | | Duration: | 01:36 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger JP-208 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One of the pieces when I first learned to play piano. Long before I touched any Liszt or Chopin.
I made 2 recordings of this piece. One I did not use any pedal and one I used pedal. The one without pedal sounds more like Bach but I like the one with pedal a bit better. This is the one with pedal.
Had pizza for lunch. |
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#1305791 - 11/15/09 01:23 AM
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| 60 | | | Performer's name: | Larry Larson | | From: | Champaign-Urbana Illinois | | Experience: | 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | atmosphere | | Composer: | Larry Larson | | Duration: | 02:57 | | Source of music: | self composed | | Instrument used: | Baldwin L grand | | Recording method: | Tascam 8 track digital porta-studio | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This has a new intro from when I posted it somewhere once on the forum. I also worked on the voicing. |
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#1305792 - 11/15/09 01:24 AM
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| 61 | | | Performer's name: | TTigg / Steve C | | From: | SoCal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1yr 5mths | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxScy3tIlRs | | Title of piece: | Glasgow Love Theme | | Composer: | David Armstrong | | Duration: | 02:21 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music, Memorized and some mistakes thrown in for good measure | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 normalized in Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | OK so I "scrambled" to get this in. I will eventually re-do the video using my Knabe downstairs or at least a sweater. I didn't realize the angle was going to have ME in it (lol)..
Lunch, I didn't have bloody time but I'm heading out now for "Linner" does that count? |
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#1305794 - 11/15/09 01:24 AM
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| 62 | | | Performer's name: | steveMac | | From: | Texas (originally Scotland) | | Experience: | 6 months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 00:55 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP160 | | Recording method: | digital to PC, PianoTeq, Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Technically not as good as i would have like but delighted to be playing my first Chopin Piece.
Buritto! |
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#1305796 - 11/15/09 01:24 AM
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| 63 | | | Performer's name: | DragonPianoPlayer | | From: | Denver | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Not long enough | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in E Minor (Op 28 No 4) | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 02:53 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX310 | | Recording method: | Reaper with Galaxy II Vienna Grand VSTi | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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#1305797 - 11/15/09 01:25 AM
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| 64 | | | Performer's name: | Mark... | | From: | The Jersey Shore | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Just turning 3 years... | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sarabande | | Composer: | William Gillock | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | Sheet music... | | Instrument used: | Estonia L190 #6879 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 and normalized with Audacity... | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My teacher recently introduced me to William Gillock's pieces and I'm really enjoying them. I liked them so much I started a thread about him:
http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1293336/1.html
I started this piece about 2-3 weeks ago and it fell in place pretty well. thanks for listening... |
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#1305798 - 11/15/09 01:25 AM
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| 65 | | | Performer's name: | Jordy | | Experience: | 5 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | A Brighter Day | | Composer: | FREDA LUJAN-MOSS | | Duration: | 03:36 | | Source of music: | Original by ear | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Motif XS | | Recording method: | Digital | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This song came to me and it's the first song I ever composed. It took about a week or so to get it smooth,but the chord progression was immediate. |
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#1305800 - 11/15/09 01:26 AM
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| 66 | | | Performer's name: | AnthonyB | | From: | Center City, MN | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Almost 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Exit | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:31 | | Source of music: | Ludovico Einaudi "The Best Of" Sheet music book that has been the source of so much of my playing material already... | | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 with Pianoteq | | Recording method: | Midi file from piano rendered with Pianoteq 3.5 (Modified M3 preset) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This wasn't my first choice for the recital but the other things I was working on weren't going to be done. So, I picked this short piece which has a nice mood for a "Fall" recital. Who knows what is for lunch as it's only 11:30. |
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