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PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD! I am delighted to introduce our 27th 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! 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: Online Streaming Player A template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback: Recital #27 Response Template 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: Zip 1 Zip 2Zip 3 Zip 4 Zip 5Zip 6 Zip 7 Zip 8Zip 9 And here's the link to Sam S.'s terrific ABF recital index, that allows you to browse through and search for pieces in all of our past recitals: ABF Recital Index Let me express my greatest thanks to some 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; LaValse for hosting the recitals for so long and then devoting hours of programming trouble-shooting making the transition to Frank's servers; Frank for agreeing to host the recital now that it's gotten so big; Copper for trouble-shooting help and the Order of the Red Dot; Sam S. for his terrific AB Forum Recital Index and also devoting hours to programming trouble-shooting; and last but not least, mahlzeit for writing the absolutely fantastic web-based recital program that we are using. THANK YOU MAHLZEIT!!! 
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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | wouter79 | | Experience: | 2.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | La Poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin, No.12) | | Composer: | Jean-Philippe Rameau | | Duration: | 04:32 | | Source of music: | sheet music, played from memory | | Instrument used: | Grotrian-Steinweg 189 | | Recording method: | DPA4060, EMU0404, Jecklin Disk | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote this around 1726. This suite is a set of small pieces, and this is the 12th part. The title is "the hen" in French. You can hear the hens clucking and chasing each other, suddenly standing still for a moment and then cackling on.
Rameau does not put any speed indications at all in his Suites, and performances vary wildly, I found anything between 104 and 144. However he gives an important clue in this piece by writing 'co co co co co coco dai' under the first notes. I take this as the clucking of the hens. This gives me a speed of at least quarter note 144. Sokolov has a wonderful performance at that speed but I can't play it now at that speed. I'm pushing hard though, sorry for the missed notes because of that!
This is written for (double manual?) harpsichord so I do a lot of staccato to keep the sound clear. Since my piano has only one keyboard, there are various places where the hands overlap very tightly, it took me some fiddling to make this work. |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel | | From: | Connecticut | | Experience: | Six and a half years after starting again. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bortkiewicz Lyrica Nova Op.59 No.3 | | Composer: | Sergei Bortkiewicz | | Duration: | 03:24 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P140 | | Recording method: | Piano line-out to computer sound card line-in. Audacity. No edits. | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Sergei Bortkiewicz wrote Lyrica Nova Op.59 No.3 in 1940, and like all of his music, it's filled with beautiful melodies and lush harmonies.
The piece is in typical ABA form, first melody in F# major, 2nd melody in d# minor, and a repeat of the first melody.
This is the 4th Bortkiewicz piece I've submitted to the ABF Recitals. Hope you like it. |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | BenPiano | | From: | USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/lnkImQ-EGy8 | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/afpaSTU1096 | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op. 17 No 6 | | Composer: | Scriabin | | Duration: | 02:01 | | Source of music: | Faber Music - "Romantic Piano Repertoire, Level 1" | | Instrument used: | Kawai K5 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 for audio | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | I didn't include the key this piece was written in. It's Scriabin, so it doesn't really matter. |
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | Jazzwee | | From: | Los Angeles | | Experience: | 7.75 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Invitation | | Composer: | Bronislau Kaper | | Duration: | 03:32 | | Source of music: | Real Book - Lead Sheet. Completely improvised. | | Instrument used: | Chickering Grand Piano at a Church | | Recording method: | I used a Zoom H4. This was a live performance. The recording was done in a church so it's a bit boomy and echoey. The piano was far back and the Zoom doesn't give a good balance. But this is an unprofessional live recording. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This tune is an advanced jazz piece with a really complex harmony.
What you will be hearing is the beginning of the piano solo section of the peformance. I had no idea what I would be playing until I got to it. The second half of what you hear (after the clapping) is the original melody (head) of Invitation which is used to close out the tune.
Now as far as my approach to soloing on this, I went with just a simple melodic approach. No pyrotechnics but just a mellow approach. I rarely play like this so it was a nice change. But like I said, I didn't plan this, that's just the way it came out.
The original recording is very long (14 minutes or so). So I chopped off the beginning section. This cuts it down to about 3 minutes. I'm sure you don't have the patience to listen to the whole thing, but if you do, the full recording is here:
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | Inlanding - Glen | | From: | Denver | | Experience: | Off and on for years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/inlandings | | Title of piece: | Warum? Op 12 No 3 | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 02:59 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is one of eight pieces from, Fantasiestucke, written in 1837, based on characters in Novellas written by his favorite author, E.T.A Hoffmann, then dedicated to an 18 year-old Scottish pianist, Anna Robena Laidlaw, with whom he shared a brief flirtation.
One of the many aspects that fascinates me about this piece is that it seems to move with gentle questioning, then ends with in inconclusive answer, hence the title. Schumann wrote so many wonderful pieces and this series is one of my favorites. I tried to capture it as well as my abilities allow.
My Dad used to play this one-pager expertly and I am fortunate to play it on his piano.
I recorded this awhile back before surgery and listening to it again is motivation for me to want to play regularly again and eventually take lessons.
For lunch, it was a falafel sandwich and lentil soup. |
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super Hunky | | From: | Arizona | | Experience: | 7 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | There is love (The wedding song) | | Composer: | Peter, Paul & Mary | | Duration: | 03:16 | | Source of music: | Played by ear (noodle method) | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I recently heard this tune on the radio and thought to myself "I've gotta learn this piece" as it was so beautiful.
I've given up on finding sheet music for much of what I play since a lot of it is not written for solo piano so the 'noodle method' was used once again...(Pound it out and memorize it). |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | SwissMS | | From: | Switzerland | | Experience: | About 4 years off and on. Resumed playing in Jan 2011 after a two year break. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in Eb Op. 9 Nr. 2 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 04:39 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Avant Grand N2 | | Recording method: | Line out to H2 Zoom | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | When I first returned to piano as an adult, this was the first Chopin that my teacher back in the states assigned to me after the method books. I fell in love with it! I could not really play it very well back then, so I decided to relearn it this spring. |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | CarlosCC | | From: | Lisbon, Portugal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2y8m (self-learning since Dec2009) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ambers | | Composer: | Long, Helen Jane | | Duration: | 03:36 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P85 | | Recording method: | Captured from Piano to PC with Audicity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I did a break in my studies of Einaudi to work on this litle piece wroten by Helen Jane Long. I don't know if I made the right decision... This piece has a nice melody and I was engaged with his delicacy from the first beginning. After some bars I was a little disappointed with this solo version because it seems to me that the arrangement was not perfect for a version without accompaniment - the original song has some instruments sustaining the melody in the background -.
Anyway, and despite not being totally in love with it, I decided to play and not to change the original sheet; I only added a little bit of speed.
It was played by memory. I hope you enjoy it. |
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Diana | | From: | Italy | | Experience: | 5 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Raymond - Theme from Overture | | Composer: | Ambroise Thomas | | Duration: | 00:45 | | Source of music: | Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course book 2 | | Instrument used: | Digital piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | Recaredo (Ricardo) | | From: | Spain | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | One year plus six months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Piano sonata No 25 Op 79. Second movement. | | Composer: | Ludwig van Beethoven | | Duration: | 02:57 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai CN 33 | | Recording method: | Digital piano to PC. Software: Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was, and is, above my level. Probably, I made a mistake learning it, and I might have spent this time improving my poor technique and sight-reading. But I truly wanted to play Beethoven.
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | Jazztpt | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 35+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.box.com/s/4c552ef4e1515b8ddd20 | | Title of piece: | Lament | | Composer: | Original composition | | Duration: | 04:42 | | Source of music: | Original | | Instrument used: | Roland 101e Digital | | Recording method: | Digital to PC (Audacity) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I don't usually write too much about my music but I would like to say a few things about this piece.
I wrote this tune many years ago after losing someone close to me, it was written for flugelhorn ( for me to play) but I have never played it anywhere.
I don't play horns anymore but I have always played it on piano so I know it well and of course over the years it has changed a bit. I did post a version of it to the Piano Bar about a year ago(with a different title) but after posting it I wasn't happy with the arrangment, the playing or the improvisation - pretty much the whole thing really !
I recorded this version right after the last recital, it wasn't intended to be for the recital but I was happy with the way it turned and so thought I would share it here.
I stick pretty close to the melody throughout but there is some improvisation during the 2nd chorus. Nothing technical about the music, my aim was to try and capture the emotion of the song so I am keen to find how this comes across to the audience.
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | (Was)TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4+ years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7_6ae-L6M | | Title of piece: | Goodnight Kiss | | Composer: | Original | | Duration: | 03:02 | | Source of music: | Self-composition | | Instrument used: | Essex Upright piano | | Recording method: | used Flip camera then extracted mp3 using Super | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I hope you guys like it. |
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | kenjazz | | From: | USA - Massachussetts | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://kenblog05.blogspot.com | | Title of piece: | A House Is Not A Home | | Composer: | Bacharach/David | | Duration: | 07:30 | | Source of music: | My own arrangement loosely patterned after arrangement by jazz pianist David Hazeltine. | | Instrument used: | Schimmel upright | | Recording method: | Zoom H3/Audacity. Additional instrumentation provided by Band in a Box 2012. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was my first attempt trying to feature a drummer in a jazz arrangement. It was also my first try at such fast speeds (191 BPM) |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Amaruk | | From: | Boston, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | No idea... Took piano lessons as a child for a few years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/o2ebPY_l52Y | | Title of piece: | Sur le fil | | Composer: | Yann Tiersen | | Duration: | 03:56 | | Source of music: | Yann Tiersen's sheet music collection "Six pieces pour piano: Vol. 2". | | Instrument used: | Roland RD-700NX digital piano set to the "Concert Grand" sound. | | Recording method: | Recorded as a .wav file directly to a USB stick on the digital piano. Converted to .mp3 file on my computer. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I simply love this piece and it is very fun to play. It starts out quite simple but I find it challenging in many sections. I find the rhythm interesting and it is fun that you have to cross your arms while playing! I hope I do the piece justice with this performance. |
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | Sam S | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4 years back after 30+ years off. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude and Fugue X WTC1 | | Composer: | J.S. Bach | | Duration: | 05:39 | | Source of music: | Henle urtext | | Instrument used: | Yamaha UX1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is still a work in progress, but I am going to shelve it for awhile and come back to it later, so I thought a recording now would be a good thing.
This is my first P&F, and was probably not a good one to start with. The prelude is very difficult and requires a lot of control to play well. Did I mention trills and ornaments? They are a real bear to play smoothly. And then there is the sudden presto (surprise!).
I got conflicting advice on the transition to the presto from two different teachers. One wanted a gradual speedup, the other wanted no speedup, just a sudden tempo change. For this recording, it is a surprise presto.
The fugue is "only" 2 voices, but don't let that fool you into thinking it is easy. Bach is so clever - I am told that if you change just a couple of notes in this fugue then it would wander through all the keys before returning to where it started. The two notes as written by Bach enable it to return to the original key sooner. Those must be the two notes I keep missing! |
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | forty years with a few years of lessons | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Mazurka #4 in A Minor | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 04:14 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger grand | | Recording method: | Metro/mac | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm at a point right now in my playing where I'm not trying so much to tackle the "monumentally difficult" works that I will never master but rather going back to pieces that seemed fairly easy...like this one. Only the more I play the more I see how pieces such as this one are in fact incredibly difficult to play well. I keep thinking I'm playing it well, then record it and hear how far from "well" I am. That all said... I am by no means done with this mazurka but here is the best recording I have so far. |
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | ladypayne | | From: | USA | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbAFpkp2E&list=UUpam4VQFISGJYmRx5gjmJHQ&index=1&feature=plcp | | Title of piece: | A New Change | | Composer: | ladypayne | | Duration: | 02:13 | | Source of music: | my own score | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | zoom h1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wrote this particular piece of music and decided to call it A new change which I dedicated to my new life in Alaska. I just recently drove 4k miles from Michigan to Alaska all by myself! I packed up my stuff and it took me 7 and a half days to drive to Alaska. What a trip! I drove through parts of the United States and through Canada which included Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory. I also created a video which includes some of my photos from driving in Alaska and on the Alaska Highway that runs through Canada starting in British Columbia and ends in Alaska. Funny short story: When I was driving through Michigan, a cop pulled me over..I was like oh oh and cmon I haven't event left Michigan yet!.. maybe I was speeding right? Nope.. Turns out the cop thought I had too much stuff in my back seat! lol. He asked me how am I suppose to back out and see anything coz my back seat was too pack full of stuff. I kindly explained I was moving to Alaska and then he said he would be a little understanding and let me go.. Phew lol.. That was the only time I got pulled over :P Anyway hope you enjoy the song! |
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Riddler (Ed) | | From: | Florida | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Two or three years of lessons as a kid; three 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://edsjazzpianopage.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Slaughter On Tenth Avenue | | Composer: | Richard Rogers | | Duration: | 06:32 | | Source of music: | Based loosely on the standard sheet music. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-120 | | Recording method: | Pianoteq | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a jazzy ballet piece written by Richard Rodgers in the 1930s. It was part of a broadway musical comedy, and was also used in a movie.
For me, this has been a long time in the making.
When I was a teenager (1950s), I really wanted to learn this piece and play it in the annual recital organized by my teacher, who was a sweet little old lady who lived up the street - let's call her Mrs Calabash. Unfortunately, that sweet little old lady had ideas of her own, one of which was that there would be no "undignified" music in her recitals. I played something else, then quit taking lessons (what a fateful blunder!).
It has been on my mind all these years.
Now, don't expect me to say that playing this piece in a recital is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, or to say it has been on my bucket list, etc. Nope, not gonna go there. But, well..., Mrs Calabash, if you are out there, would you please take a minute to listen, and tell me honestly, don't you hear the power and the majesty in that ending? And BTW, I'm sorry I have not really improved much over all these years. I know, I shoulda worked on those scales and Hanons, like you told me. |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | Greener / Jeff Green | | From: | Toronto Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | On and off (mostly off) for years ... since about the age of 12. That's along time . But, only more disciplined approach to expanding repertoire, practicing and concerted effort towards learning, in the past 2 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.greenermarketing.ca | | Title of piece: | Schindler's List - Theme | | Composer: | John Williams | | Duration: | 01:46 | | Source of music: | Youtube tutorial for the main elements. Other Youtube videos for ideas on expression and attempting to improve on the tutorial arrangement. | | Instrument used: | Samick SU-105 40" console (acoustic) | | Recording method: | ADK A-51 Large Diaphragm Condenser Mic, Audio Technica AT8010 Small Diaphragm Condenser Mic, to M-Audio interface (pre-amp), to Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf." Itzhak Stern
John Williams composed the score for Schindler's List. The composer was amazed by the film, and felt it would be too challenging. He said to Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film." Spielberg replied, "I know. But they all dead!"
Williams approaches the horrors on screen with a beauty so primordial that the score is dripping with romantic heartbreak at each of its harmonic turns.
The album won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for "Best Original Score" and the Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television". It was also nominated for a Golden Globe. |
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