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PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD!I am delighted to introduce our 17th 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 17 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 17 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 17 zip 1 Recital 17 zip 2 Recital 17 zip 3 Recital 17 zip 4 Recital 17 zip 5 Recital 17 zip 6 Recital 17 zip 7 Recital 17 zip 8 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 trouble-shooting help and the Order of the Red Dot; 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: | LisztAddict | | From: | Florida | | Experience: | 8.5 years since returning to piano | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-6cW0eGiM | | Title of piece: | Nocturne Op 9 No 1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 05:16 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger/Young Chang JP-208 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This 2010 is the year people around the world celebrate Chopin 200th birth year. I think this is very nice that Chopin is going first on this first 2010 ABF recital. |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | AnthonyB | | From: | Center City, MN | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Just over 2 years already! | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nefeli | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 04:06 | | Source of music: | Ludovico Einaudi - The Best Of | | Instrument used: | Pianoteq 3.5 (MIDI generated by Roland FP7) | | Recording method: | MIDI rendered to wav with Pianoteq | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I started this piece soon after the last recital. Things were off to a pretty quick start but then stalled out between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Picked up again in January because I didn't have much of a choice!
This is easily the "busiest" piece that I've attempted up to this point. I get a great deal of satisfaction watching my hands fly around the various parts on the video and that makes me feel great. The one thing I've noticed about this piece on places like youtube is that it seems that perfectly clean takes seem somehow rare and alas my take isn't perfect but it's fine.
I never really had a proper lunch today and instead opted for a few small snacks instead. |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet fait par Monsieur Bohm | | Composer: | Bach | | Duration: | 01:23 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Milton spinet | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One of my goals for these online recitals was to submit all the tunes that I got up to speed for my previous live recitals. With this recital I will have done that, so from next recital I hope to be able to start submitting pieces I've been working on for this years mid-year recital. |
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | z32/Ben | | From: | Santa Clarita, California | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years, on and off | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dream | | Composer: | Yiruma | | Duration: | 03:43 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YPG625 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Just the latest Yiruma piece I've learned. Really love all his pieces! |
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | BenPiano | | From: | USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 8 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBZQzlhL8w | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/afpaSTU1096 | | Title of piece: | Adagio in B minor KV 540 | | Composer: | Mozart | | Duration: | 06:11 | | Source of music: | sheet music from: ---> http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/main/? | | Instrument used: | Roland Fantom G8 | | Recording method: | Digital | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I don’t think I would have ever discovered this piece on my own, but luckily was introduced to it by another. I had it playing on repeat in the background while doing some computer stuff, and subsequently fell in love with it and became determined to learn it.
My current ability is nowhere near that required to play this piece proficiently (as the listener will no doubt find out ), so my wish is certainly not to desecrate this amazing piece. But like the individual that introduced me to this piece, I too hope to introduce it to a few that might find it as incredible as I did. Though, I would highly recommend listening to a proper recording of this to get the “whole storyâ€, if you know what I mean.
To me, this piece is absolutely brilliant. It tells such a fascinating story with only the piano. I’m sure every listener’s story will be much different than mine, but the story in my head while I listen follows this plot :
This piece begins very sad and filled with tension. The tension relaxes, and by 2:15 the mood changes to a more positive feeling, but this is short lived as the theme repeats in different keys giving me the impression that everything has descended into utter chaos.
At 3:39 the mood is lifted again, but it only feels better when compared to the hopelessness of the preceding section. It’s the beginning section repeated, so the sadness and tension are still present - and very familiar.
Later, I hear determination to solve the very complex problem causing the sadness and tension, and I hear agony while wrangling with the solution.
The last section of this piece (5:23) I can’t explain because the meaning I find in it is always changing. Is it execution of the plan to solve the problem, or is it inner reflection doubting success? The mood changes dramatically at 5:49 (from minor to major, I think?). Was the problem solved successfully or was there some sort of epiphany and acceptance that there will always be this sadness and tension? I don’t know yet, and that’s one of the things that keep drawing me back to this piece.
Thanks for listening!
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel | | From: | Connecticut | | Experience: | 4 years after returning. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Intermezzo Op.29 No.4 | | Composer: | Eugen d'Albert | | Duration: | 02:44 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P140 | | Recording method: | Piano line-out to computer line-in. Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Here is a lively little piece by Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932), a student of Liszt. It's the Intermezzo from his 5 Bagatelles Op.29.
The first theme (A) is played in light staccato and has a Beethoven feel to it.
The second theme (B) is a lovely, lyrical melody.
The first theme is repeated, followed by a repeat of the second theme, but this time in D flat, on a grander scale and with some challanging arpeggios in the left hand.
The first theme is repeated again, and the piece closes with fragments of the first theme.
So the structure of the piece is ABABA.
Hope you enjoy it. |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | ten left thumbs | | From: | Scotland | | Experience: | 12 years? | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Slow Blues in G | | Composer: | Tim Richards | | Duration: | 02:32 | | Source of music: | sheet, CD, own composition | | Instrument used: | Knight | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the result of my 'Blue January.'
The head is taken from Tim Richard's book (Improvising Blues Piano), and I learned the first solo by copying Richard's playing on the CD, using magic softward called Transcribe. I then composed a second solo, which I play here right after the first.
This has also been an experiment for me in learning and memorizing music - without looking at the sheet! So there are a few stumbles here where I just forget what I'm doing. But overall I hope it's enjoyable, and any comments/critique (good, bad or otherwise) will be very welcome! |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | 35 years with a few years of lessons | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Biffer5#p/u/1/b6BdW7Vq9vo | | Home page link: | http://www.peytonart.com | | Title of piece: | Thoughts of Anne | | Composer: | Peyton | | Duration: | 04:13 | | Instrument used: | Pramberger-YC 6'10" grand | | Recording method: | mac | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is based on a melody I wrote many years ago. I've played around with it ever since. It actually had a final, more complicated variation. When I initially recorded it I had a chance to listen and realized how badly I played I so ended up with this "less complicated" version. |
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Manndrew | | From: | Metrowest Boston | | Experience: | Since just before JFK became president. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Danny Boy | | Composer: | Frederick Weatherly | | Duration: | 05:28 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland Fp-7 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 normalized and exported through Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Dave Frank played Jarrett’s version of Danny Boy at the end of his videocast and I was immediately drawn to it. The chord structure seemed so unusual, but fit the piece so well. As I’ve said before some of Jarrett’s ballad covers are “reasonably†accessible. Danny Boy has a manageable pace to it. The difficulty is in the big chords and extended passages with the chord changes and keeping the melody distinct in the right hand. Also I found it hard to maintain the dynamics I was looking for consistently. As with all Jarrett’s music it remains a work in progress. |
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | 8 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude No. 4 in F Major | | Composer: | Robert D. Vandall | | Duration: | 01:38 | | Source of music: | Vandall Classics Preludes:24 Original Piano Solos | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-4 | | Recording method: | Akoustik Piano using Bechstein 280 Grand virtual piano, normalized with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | John Frank | | From: | Central PA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 yrs. + | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ashokan Farewell | | Composer: | Jay Ungar | | Duration: | 03:28 | | Source of music: | Individual sheet music published by Alfred Publishing Co. and available from (among others) sheetmusicplus.com. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CVP-301 Digital Piano | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Many will recognize "Ashokan Farewell" as the main theme of the excellent PBS documentary series "The Civil War" by Ken Burns. However, this gorgeous work was not composed by Jay Ungar for that purpose. Instead it was written some 6 years earlier as a parting, or farewell, waltz for those attending the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps that Jay and his wife Molly Mason run in upstate New York. The original recorded piece, as used with such inspired brilliance by Burns, has Ungar on "fiddle" and Mason on guitar (and can be seen/heard on YouTube with scenes from the documentary).
If any piece of music can be appropriately described as "hauntingly beautiful" it is this inspired and stirring conception of Ungar's. And as a tribute to Jay I open this version with a solo violin statement of the theme of the first section of the work (using the violin "voice" on my DP), which then transitions into my performance of this very fine piano arrangement.
The piece consists of two 16-measure sections each with it's own distinctive (and yet interrelated) theme. This piano arrangement by the prolific and creative Dan Coates first takes us through the two sections in a lovely but uncomplicated style, and then repeats them in a slightly more complex arrangement. I didn't change the music at all, but some of the dynamics and tempo changes are mine.
It was a real pleasure to work on this wonderful piece of music and it's an absolute joy to play. I hope you enjoy this version. It is played here from memory.
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Until Dawn | | Composer: | Original | | Duration: | 03:45 | | Source of music: | Original Composition | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | With this piece I did differently than before. I got the left hand chords first from a song I liked a lot and built a new melody around it. I also added a change from minor to major to make it sound a little optimistic at the end. I hope you guys like it. |
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| 13 | | | 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: | On Green Dolphin Street | | Composer: | Bronislau Kaper and Ned Washington | | Duration: | 05:55 | | 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 a movie. It was later recorded by Miles Davis, and has since become a jazz standard.
I am playing the piano, but the drums and bass are provided by a backing track. |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Strings & Wood/CarlMc | | From: | Colorado | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 21 Months as a re-beginner. Two years of lessons some time ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in E minor OP. 28 No. 4 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 02:10 | | Source of music: | Sheet | | Instrument used: | Schimmel 213K NWS | | Recording method: | Zoom2 and Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Every left hand chord change is incremental. One or two notes may only change a semitone. This constant shift from black keys to white keys to black keys makes it difficult to maintain an even sound. It is beautiful when you do, and not so much, when you don't.
Originally, I played this pretty much as written, but along the way the left hand play has become more rubato.
The ending for me, is one of heartbeat. It slows, a brief pause, a couple of weary beats more and then ends. It is difficult to remove your hand from that last E octave.
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Schubertian | | From: | Dallas | | Experience: | 7 as child; long hiatus; last 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Variations Hob. III/77 | | Composer: | Haydn | | Duration: | 07:31 | | Source of music: | Haydn Klavierstudke, Wiener Urtext | | Instrument used: | Estonia grand | | Recording method: | H2/Garageband | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This poor little melody has certainly, and undeservedly, been dragged through the mud of history. It started out life as a patriotic anthem to Franz der Kaiser (which one I have no idea). Haydn heard 'God save the Kinq/Queen' when he was in England and thought it was so stirring he decided to do the same for the Holy Roman Empire - what was left of it. Then he seems to have turned it into a hymn, which certainly works. Then it become the slow movement of the Op 62 C major string quartet. I guess that was so popular Haydn arranged it for piano.
It's not too hard to dissociate this melody from Deutschland uber alles (Bismark's brainchild) from this melody, especially since the setting is so refined. I am sure its original audience - hearing the 4 part choral harmony setting at the beginning - would have anticipated a deeply felt, spiritual and introspective piece - which this is. I consider it the equal of the Mozart quintets or the late Beethoven string quartets.
I did not really learn this piece so this is me just sight reading. It does not flow like it should but I don't have anything else ready right now that is not destined for another e-cital so here it is - warts and all. |
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super Hunky | | From: | Arizona | |
| Experience: | Who cares? | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waterfalls | | Composer: | Mr Super Hunky | | Duration: | 03:29 | | Source of music: | Original composition played by ear. | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin Big Boy (BB) | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 (the cheapest model of the Zooms actually sounds the best!) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Here is an original composition based off of melodies I use to practice. Someday I hope to be able to perform all of the melodies in my head the way I actually hear them but my abilities can hinder that somewhat. No worries though as long as I'm still seeing progress, it's all good.
My goal is to someday have people wanting to play *my* tunes. That would be cool. |
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | tdvance (Todd Vance) | | From: | Bowie, MD | | Experience: | 1 year | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonatina, Op. 13, No. 1, 1st mvt. | | Composer: | Dmitri Kabalevsky | | Duration: | 04:53 | | Source of music: | Piano Literature, Vol 4: for the Early Advanced Grades
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General Words and Music Co. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Arius Digital Piano, DP-160 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | nice piece, wanted to do the whole piece originally but: 1. at the speed I can play it, would be 15 minutes, 2. I need work on 4 measures of the 3rd mvt that go much slower than I can play the rest of it (the right hand doing a melodic minor scale while the left hand simultaneously does minor arpeggio) |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | timmyab | | From: | Bristol, UK | | Experience: | 16 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Impromptu op 142 no 2 | | Composer: | Schubert | | Duration: | 05:35 | | Source of music: | Peters edition of the Schubert Impromptus edited by Niemann. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha s30 | | Recording method: | Wav file exported from Pianoteq and converted to mp3 with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The Schubert Impromtus were what first attracted me to the piano, and as this one is the easiest of them, it's the first one that I learnt to play.I've been playing it on and off for about 15 years I suppose.I've left out some of the repeats because it repeats itself a lot anyway and it can get a bit boring. |
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