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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | CASINITALY (Cheryl) | | From: | Italy | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2 years 7 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Rigaudon & Entree | | Composer: | Handel, Leopold Mozart | | Duration: | 02:31 | | Source of music: | The first piece is Rigaudon, by George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
The second is Entree by Leopold Mozart, from the "Notebook for Wolfgang" (1762) Both are from Vol. 27 Music for Millions Series, More Easy Classics to Moderns. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P112N, Silent digital feature | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I really find that I'm enjoying this type of music, - it feels like a puzzle that has to fit together.
The Rigaudon was trickier for me, but I resisted doing a gazzilion re-takes. I limited myself to 2. I did flub a bit, but to give an honest presentation of what I can truly do in terms of performance at this point, I decided I would just consider it a challenge to keep going and recover, rather than try doing it again. With the Entree, it is a bit easier, and in general when I play it, I can play it without errors, so I gave myself a little leeway and did a few more takes.
I recorded with the digital again, because it is Saturday and there were weddings and the church bells rang A LOT.....which might have sounded interesting, but would have bugged me.
I recorded after a later breakfast, which consisted of cafe au lait and apple pastries. |
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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | timmyab | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 20 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Moment musical Nr.2 | | Composer: | Schubert | | Duration: | 05:40 | | Source of music: | Peters edition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha ydp s30 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Timing is tricky on this piece.Even the pros seem to get it wrong as often as not.The dotted minims should be held for six beats but are often held for only four or five.I don't think I drop too many beats although I do add the odd beat here and there I know.The tempo is also difficult to get right I found.Too slow and the B sections drag, too quick and the A sections sound hurried.
I've made a mistake here by playing the tied d naturals, but I can't be bothered to re-record, it doesn't sound too bad as it is anyway I don't think. |
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | Lady Chen | | From: | Canada | | Experience: | 10 years as a child, took 16 year break, returned to lessons 2 years ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in E minor, op. 72, no. 1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 05:05 | | Source of music: | Chopin Nocturnes for the piano (Alfred, ed. Palmer) | | Instrument used: | Young Chang upright | | Recording method: | Roland R-05 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I learned this piece when I was 13 but wanted to revisit it as an adult with more life experience  . |
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | MrPozor | | From: | France | | Experience: | 4 months, self-teaching | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Minuet in A minor - Z649 | | Composer: | Henry Purcell | | Duration: | 00:29 | | Source of music: | The Piano Handbook by Carl Humphries | | Instrument used: | M-Audio Keystation 88es | | Recording method: | MuLab Free (direct WAV recording)
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Audacity + LAME for trimming and encoding | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I would be really happy for feedback as I have not progressed on this piece anymore in the last weeks. |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | Monica K. | | From: | Lexington, KY | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 8 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Fairy Tale | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 04:14 | | Source of music: | "Islands" sheet music collection | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin A | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, normalized in audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Oh this piece looked so easy based on the sheet music but ohhhh those inevitable skipped notes while trying to play pp arpeggios just about drove me nuts. I never did get a recording I was happy with before I had to go out of town, so I didn't upload a YouTube video this time.
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | Cookie74 | | From: | Southern California | | Experience: | 8-10 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Invention No. 4 in D minor | | Composer: | Johann Sebastian Bach | | Duration: | 01:07 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music--Alfred Complete Inventions and Sinfonias | | Instrument used: | Petrof Klasik IV | | Recording method: | Zoom1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my first recording and my first recital. I don't think the recording captures much of the dynamics, but oh well. |
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | Mile Hi Steve | | From: | Denver, CO | | Experience: | 6 months public performance and years of on again off again banging on the piano | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Leaning on the Everlasting Arms | | Composer: | Showalter | | Duration: | 02:04 | | Source of music: | Play by ear | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova | | Recording method: | Instrument audio out to laptop audio in | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've always liked interpretations of this classic hymn and after watching the 2010 True Grit with this as the underlying theme, I tried to craft a similar version here for use as an offeratory for church. For lunch I had spicy chicken alfredo with salad, grapes, and cantaloupe. |
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | Bobpickle | | From: | Cameron Park, CA | | Experience: | 8 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/XxBobpicklexX | | Title of piece: | June (Barcarolle) | | Composer: | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | | Duration: | 05:08 | | Source of music: | sheet music (combined 2 sources - imslp and another) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-155 | | Recording method: | digital piano midi to Synthogy Ivory Cantabile | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | What did I have for lunch? I had an apple and a banana. Woohoo! Oh, and I guess I learned this piece because it was my early favorite of the 50 pre-loaded on my P-155 DP. |
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | 10+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Poet Speaks | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 02:05 | | Source of music: | Scenes From Childhood Opus 15 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first PW recital with my new Yamaha GC1 grand piano. It has been tuned once and is getting used to my house and the new Dampp Chaser I had installed last week. I bid farewell to my 105 year old Everett upright. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | More than four | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Rosemary's Baby - Lullaby | | Composer: | Krzyszfof Komeda | | Duration: | 04:24 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | DP to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | It is very famous main musical theme from 1968 film directed by a Pole Roman Polanski and composed by late polish composer Krzysztof (Kristopher, Kris ) Komeda, this time performed and arranged from lead sheet also by a Pole .
This is not my current production - I did this arrangement some 2 years ago so it is not too refined. But the tune is so beautiful I decided to share it with you and I will be honored and very happy if you listen to the very end of this rendition of mine and like it! |
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | cscl | | From: | Suburban Boston/Metrowest | | Experience: | 5 years, 11 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bagatelle in G minor, Op. 119, No. 1 | | Composer: | Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | | Duration: | 02:59 | | Source of music: | Schirmer Performance Editions, Fur Elise and Other Bagatelles | | Instrument used: | Estonia 190 Parlour Grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 from the music desk | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Well, this is my transition piece moving from suburban Chicago to suburban Boston. I recorded this one in July while the piano movers were closing in on my house in Illinois. By the time the recital goes live, I'll be in my new place, maybe still waiting for my piano to arrive. |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | | From: | Santa Fe, NM | | Experience: | 2 years of lessons early teens, 30+ years off, playing for dances since 1995. (oh dear, my truth serum kicked in for a minute and I originally typed "1195". But I overcame it ) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dill Pickle Rag | | Composer: | Charles L. Johnson | | Duration: | 02:23 | | Source of music: | The Fiddler's Fakebook, lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-100 | | Recording method: | digital to PC thru audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Oh my. I just compared this with the Black and White Rag I submitted for recital #11. I've improved  Although this is still a tad slower than I wanted.
But I've upped my practice time lately, considerably, so this is also a little less sloppy than some of my submissions For about the last 4 months I was mostly playing new stuff for backing a vocalist or fitting in an ensemble so my solo work was really neglected. So this came together a little faster than usual, too. I had an adequate take of another piece but I'll save it for next time.
Lunch - chicken sandwich. At my desk. At a client's. No one died in the library. |
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | TrapperJohn | | From: | Central PA | | Experience: | 6+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from "Phantom...") | | Composer: | Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) ; Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe (lyrics) | | Duration: | 03:23 | | Source of music: | Piano Vocal Selections from The Phantom of the Opera (Hal Leonard) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CVP-301 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | In the movie version of "The Phantom of the Opera" young, beautiful and talented Christine has just taken over the lead soprano role at the 1870 Paris Opera and has just had her first intensely dramatic and strangely romantic encounter with the Phantom, the "angel of music" (or so she believes) that her late father had promised to send to her from heaven.
Her father had been a concert violinist and she had toured with him throughout Europe in her youth, during which he had instilled in her a deep-seated love for music - and respect and devotion to him.
Now, on the eve of her success she walks through the Paris Cemetery where he lies, longing to be with him again, and to hear his voice again, and to share her excitement and happiness with him again, and to talk about the mysterious and compelling angel of music again - in all, wishing he were somehow here again...
And then in the solitude of the cemetery with snow beginning to fall, and in the bittersweet sadness of the moment, she sings softly and tenderly at first (and with just the slightest touch of obsession):
(in G minor)
You were once my one companion,
You were all that mattered.
You were once a friend and father,
Then my world was shattered.
(in G major)
Wishing you were somehow here again,
Wishing you were somehow near;
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed,
Somehow you would be here.
Wishing I could hear your voice again,
Knowing that I never would;
Dreaming of you won't help me to do,
All that you dreamed I could.
(in G minor)
Passing bells and sculpted angels,
Cold and monumental,
Seem for you the wrong companions,
You were warm and gentle.
(in G major)
[Instrumental interlude to the tune "Wishing you were somehow..."]
Too many years fighting back tears,
Why can't the past just die?
(In Bb Major)
Wishing you were somehow here again,
Knowing we must say goodbye.
Try to forgive, teach me to live,
Give me the strength to try.
No more memories, no more silent tears;
No more gazing across the wasted years.
Help me say goodbye.
Help me say goodbye.
With it's constant key changes "Wishing..." is perhaps the most musically creative and interesting of all the great Webber show tunes - and with it's hauntingly beautiful melodies and poignant lyrics maybe the most listenable and appealing.
Hope you enjoy, Trap
Note that "The Phantom of the Opera" began it's run in the mid-1980s and is now the longest running show in *Broadway* history - surpassed only by the awesomely spectacular "Les Miserables" on a *worldwide* basis. |
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | knotty | | From: | dc area | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Petite Fleur | | Composer: | Sydney Bechet | | Duration: | 07:48 | | Source of music: | Sydney Bechet standard. A favorite of all french weddings and galas | | Instrument used: | acoustic piano + cornet + tenor sax + drums + bass | | Recording method: | Zoom h4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Often played as a bossa, this works well as a Tango-type piece. |
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | Andy Platt | | From: | Arlington, VA | | Experience: | Too long putzing on my own and two short years of lessons. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in E Minor (Opus 28, No 4) | | Composer: | Frederic Chopin | | Duration: | 02:10 | | Source of music: | Chopin: An introduction to his piano works | | Instrument used: | Kawai K3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Listening to it, my chords just aren't quite together. There's still just too much tension in my left hand. But it's a piece I haven't played much in the last couple of months and I think it's came together pretty well with a couple of run throughs.
I do love this piece - such a wonderful, simple chord progression with an absolutely mesmerizing melody over the top. What Chopin could do with this is just amazing.
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | Newman | | From: | Sydney, Australia | | Experience: | approx 18 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~lenilelu/ | | Title of piece: | Desperado | | Composer: | Don Henley and Glenn Frey | | Duration: | 03:43 | | Source of music: | By ear. | | Instrument used: | Kawai KDP80 | | Recording method: | Camera Phone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a song I've always wanted to be able to play on piano. And of the songs I can play is probably the most 'pianoish'. I wish I has better recording equipment. |
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Copper | | From: | VA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 7 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ave Maria | | Composer: | Friedrich Burgmuller | | Duration: | 01:44 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Connected the Yamaha P-250 to the computer | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | Jake S | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 7 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ah Vous Dirai-je Maman | | Composer: | Mozart | | Duration: | 13:31 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (from memory) | | Instrument used: | Kawai CA93 Digital Piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | First an admission- I recorded the 12 variations as separate pieces and merged them into one file later so that I could submit. I can (just) play through them all in one session but produce a better performance individually and would like to present them in that fashion.
I am pleased that I have managed to memorise the whole piece- something I thought would be tough when I started.
For those that don't recognise the title, this is Mozart's variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. |
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | Augustina | | From: | Kansas | | Experience: | Don't keep track... A few years maybe? | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Touched | | Composer: | Joe Bongiorno | | Duration: | 02:54 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Casio WK500- 76 keys | | Recording method: | Cell Phone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I posted this piece in the piano bar about a year ago. I thought I would try and record a better version from when I first posted it.
This particular piece is a slow and pretty song. I find slow songs challenging as I like to play things too fast. That said the tempo is going to be off a little...As well as some of the rhythm
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | Sand Tiger | | From: | Southern California | | Experience: | Five months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Ashokan Farewell | | Composer: | Jay Unger | | Duration: | 02:04 | | Source of music: | I transcribed YouTube videos to get a score in ABC format. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha NP11 digital | | Recording method: | Direct audio line in to Sony ICD-PX312 voice recorder, without any monitor. I did some minor editing with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Written in 1982, Ashokan Farewell has a much older feel to it. It was popularized by the PBS TV series on the Civil War.
I transcribed the score from YouTube videos and didn't take the time to work out the ending as it is written. As is, it is 14 weeks since I started working on it. I figure about 25% of all my piano time during my five month total has been spent on this one piece. Like many folks, I found the red dot to be daunting, and I have 25 discarded recordings to show the intimidation factor.
For reasons such as background noise, and mistakes, my cleanest recordings came with no audio feedback. I plugged a direct line from the keyboard to the voice recorder, with no monitor. Practicing with the volume off is part of my standard memorization routine.
I just bought a Sony PX312 voice recorder, replacing a Sony ST25 circa 2003. Obviously, I like the Sony recorders, and have had good luck with the ST25. |
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