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Registered: 11/23/11
Posts: 103
Loc: Spain, Europe
Hi everyone! I've done this post to do here a summary of all my perfomances.
First, i'm going to post my interpretation of "Rondo Capriccioso" from Felix Mendelssohn. I've alredy posted it, but I repeat, this is a summary post where will be all my interpretations
It's a big and fantastic piece and I'd like you to watch my perfomance.
Yes, I've yet posted this video, but i've posted this here too because I want to have a section with all my compositions, as an album
The image's quality is bad, but the sound's quality is rather acceptable.
So, thank you for watching this video and I hope you like it!
Registered: 11/23/11
Posts: 103
Loc: Spain, Europe
Now, i'm going to show you a very cool thing!!
It's a record made on the last Christmas (2010)
Here it's the transcription of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" for 4 hands made by the original composer (Edvard Grieg)
This piece was played by my friend Natalia (who plays high notes) and me (who plays low notes) It's a piece which I love. We have recorded it with a very very good image quality and a good sound quality. This piece makes me to want to play more pieces from Grieg, because this one is incredible (maybe, i should play all the suite op 46... that could be perfectly one of my future projects ^_^)
It's the only piece i've played from Edvard Grieg, this norwegian composer; but i've liked it so much that I think I will play more of his pieces.
Registered: 11/23/11
Posts: 103
Loc: Spain, Europe
Hi everyone :P
This week I'm going to show you a very particular piece: "El españolito" (The little Spaniard) composed by Victor Carbajo.
It's a set of 60 variations over the national Spain's anthem. The variations represent some different musical period, different composers, musical styles etc.
These were 60 variations but as it was too long I've had to do a selection with my 24 favourites variations and I played them in a concert. Here it's the variations' order:
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Originally Posted By: FranKiisko
Hi everyone! I've done this post to do here a summary of all my perfomances.
First, i'm going to post my interpretation of "Rondo Capriccioso" from Felix Mendelssohn. I've alredy posted it, but I repeat, this is a summary post where will be all my interpretations
It's a big and fantastic piece and I'd like you to watch my perfomance.
Yes, I've yet posted this video, but i've posted this here too because I want to have a section with all my compositions, as an album
The image's quality is bad, but the sound's quality is rather acceptable.
So, thank you for watching this video and I hope you like it!
PD: Please, leave a comment!
The beginning feels too "vertical" and choppy, you need to make a very big line of the melody. Maybe play it a bit faster. You can play the E major chords and the right hand octaves a bit louder as that is like a mini climax of the first section.
You can go for it in the octaves after the pp arpegios, and make it sound more impressive. After when you have the short presto motif again, with the melody over the top, i think you can articulate the presto theme a bit more. Becareful later, when you have the left hand with the octaves. After when you have the E major chords and the right hand forte arpegios, try voicing the left hand chords, bring out the important note.
I think with a bit more practise you can control the final octaves better. Good performance
Registered: 11/23/11
Posts: 103
Loc: Spain, Europe
Now, I'm posting next piece, the "Gnossienne 1"
It was the first of a set of 7 pieces (the last four were composed in different years) composed by the french Erik Satie.
The thing that attracted more my attention while I was studying this piece, was the Satie's expressivity marks on the score. In this sheet, for example, we can find expressive marks like these: "Sur la langue" (on the tip of the tongue), "Du bout de la pensée" (from the tip of the thought) or "Postulez en vous-même"(wonder about yourself). Annotations so strange like these are very frequents in Satie's pieces and there are others very more stranges. For exemple, I remember I saw in on of his works (I think it was "La piège de Méduse") the mark: "Un signe vous observe"; and the meaning of that is "a monkey is looking to you) LOL!!
I have played this piece before (five years ago) and I remembered it with affection, so I decided to make a record. The tempo is about 44bpm (Satie indicate "Lent" in his work, which means that the interpretation must to be from 40 to 60bpm) except parts in which expressive marks suggest to reduce the speed. Like for exemple "Pas à pas" (Step by step)
I hope you like my perfomance. Thank you very much!