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20 | | 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: | Angle Eye and Morning Greets the New Day | Composer: | Combo improv and Solo Original | Duration: | 04:28 | Source of music: | Memory and improvisation | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | For the first minute or so, the Angle Eye improvisation was based on a jazz standard called, Angel Eyes, written by Matt Dennis in 1946, but I took the chord progression and improvised on it against a bass and drum combo. Chances are you will not be able to hear the melody line in this. I am sill learning to play with others. I tried to make it swing a bit.
The second tune after the first minute or so of audio is an original solo-piano improvisation of mine.
I've not played too much this year, and last, due to complications from a series of injuries, so this is encouraging to be able to get something together for this e-cital.
Lunch was Chicken Cacciatore and a large salad. |
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21 | | Performer's name: | Andy Platt | From: | Arlington, VA, USA | Experience: | Years self taught and 2.5 years of lessons | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Gavotte and Variations | Composer: | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Duration: | 06:31 | Source of music: | IMSLP - there are a couple of different versions and we used all of them, picking ideas and ornamentation from both. | Instrument used: | Kawai K3 | Recording method: | Zoom H1 / Audacity. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is probably Rameau's most famous piece for keyboard. It has a simple theme and, relatively, straightforward variations. The theme is quite obvious in most variations and I have tried to bring this out in my performance. Often some variations are taken at breakneck speed but my technique won't allow for that! The theme can be extremely heavily ornamented but I prefer a cleaner style.
I would have liked to have submitted this in a single take but I made a huge blunder in one variation and restarted. C'est la vie. There are some minor flubs in several of the variations but for such a long piece I am happy I got it to a pretty secure stage.
Lunch today was Taco Bell as we came back from my daughter's last soccer game of the Fall season. |
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22 | | Performer's name: | CASINITALY (Cheryl) | From: | Italy | Avatar: | | Experience: | Just shy of 3 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | http://youtu.be/DlyQ70JWKY8 | Title of piece: | Romanza and The Little Music Box | Composer: | Daniel Steibelt, Samuel Maypakar | Duration: | 01:34 | Source of music: | Sheet music a) Joy of First Classics Book 2, Classics to Modern Vol 17 | Instrument used: | Yamaha P112 (Silent Feature used) | Recording method: | Audacity to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | These are two little pieces that I've liked for quite a while. Romanza I still feel I can improve on, but for the moment this is what I can do. The Music Box could be a bit faster, but not with my fingers! I had roast pork, roast potatoes and carrots and green peas for lunch, with a white wine from Sicily. |
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23 | | Performer's name: | SandTiger | From: | United States | Experience: | 8 months | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/ | Title of piece: | Shimmer | Composer: | SandTiger | Duration: | 01:39 | Source of music: | Original composition in C major. | Instrument used: | Yamaha NP11 digital. | Recording method: | Sony ICD-PX312 Voice Recorder, direct connection. Imported to Audacity, increased volume with the compressor. Exported to MP3. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I enjoy playing and composing this simple piece. I tried recording using a splitter, but that resulted in a mono recording. So this is recorded using a direct connection between the digital and the voice recorder, without audio feedback. |
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24 | | Performer's name: | Yamaha G3 & P-80, Mike White | From: | United States | Experience: | Lifetime by ear, 7 years self-teaching. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Meditation | Composer: | Cecile Chaminade | Duration: | 05:00 | Source of music: | sheet music | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 | Recording method: | Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Cecile Louise Stephanie Chaminade (August 8, 1857 - April 13, 1944) was a French composer and pianist. link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Chaminade |
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25 | | Performer's name: | Hawgdriver | From: | Denver | Experience: | 3 yrs | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9/1 | Composer: | Chopin | Duration: | 05:36 | Instrument used: | Roland digital piano (RD-700NX) | Recording method: | Zoom | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I wish I had time for a good instructor, I need it. |
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27 | | Performer's name: | kenjazz (Ken) | From: | United States - Massachussetts | Avatar: | | Experience: | I may be closing in on five years now. I'm not exactly sure. | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | http://kenblog05.blogspot.com | Title of piece: | Waltz For Debby | Composer: | Bill Evans | Duration: | 06:37 | Source of music: | This is an original arrangement of the piece done by Bill Evans. It is done in four sections with an intro, waltz verse, 4/4 swing verses, and a short legato ending. | Instrument used: | Schimmel 120 J | Recording method: | Zoom H2, Audacity, Band-in-a-Box 12 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | From my blog on this number....
One of my all time favorite jazz piano songs is "Waltz for Debby" by Bill Evans. It was first recorded on Evans's 1956 album New Jazz Conceptions and, perhaps more famously, on his 1961 live album Waltz For Debby. It has been recorded by many artists, both as an instrumental and as a vocal piece. The song's lyrics were written by Gene Lees. "Debby" in the song title refers to Evans' niece, Debby Evans. This song, and the Evan's trio performance of it has always defined for me the essence of what it means for a piano trio to swing hard - real hard.
But done as a ballad, it is also a beautiful tune. The duet that Evans and Tony Bennett perform is magical. It was listening to this duet that I first became familiar with the lyrics. I misunderstood one of the lyrics (purposefully?) for years. The second stanza starts: "Lives my favorite girl". I always thought that Tony was saying "Liv's my favorite girl". I figured that he was personalizing the song in some way. Since my daughter's name is Liv, the lyrics had that extra personal meaning to me. You know what? I'm keeping the lyrics the way that my mind heard them!
In her own sweet world Populated by dolls and clowns and a prince and a big purple bear.
Liv's my favorite girl, unaware of the worried frowns that we weary grown ups all wear.
In the sun she dances to silent music, songs that are spun of gold somewhere in her own little head.
One day all too soon she'll grow up and she'll leave her dolls and her prince and her silly old bear.
When she goes they will cry as she whispers "Good-bye." They will miss her I fear but then so will I.
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This is quite a difficult song to play and to make good arrangement for as an amateur. It starts out as a waltz in 3/4 time, but then turns into a 4/4 swing tempo. During the waltz section, you are playing the "slash" chords and several different voicings. I am also making use of George Shearing chords, which are bracketed by an octave and have the chord tensions in the middle. During the 4/4 swing section there are different chords which are centered around the cycle of fifths. I'm making some substitutions so that I can make the chord shells go down chromatically in most cases. This way I can keep up at the fast speeds while trying to solo.
I wanted to put another soloist in here, but after adding an intro, and elongating the ending, there just wasn't enough time where it wouldn't be obnoxious. Next time....
http://kenblog05.blogspot.com/2012/11/waltz-for-debby.html |
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28 | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | From: | Cleveland, OH | Avatar: | | Experience: | 40 years playing on my own, followed by 3.5 years of actual learning with a teacher. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Bagatelle No.25 in A minor (Fur Elise) | Composer: | Beethoven | Duration: | 04:02 | Source of music: | Schirmer's "60 Progressive Piano Pieces You Like to Play". I must have bought this book when I was a teenager; the price tag says $3.95. The odd thing about this edition is that the piece is notated in 3/4 time, rather than 3/8. I guess it makes it easier to read. | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 upright | Recording method: | Tascam DR-08. Converted to MP3 using Audacity. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I was not too thrilled when I was assigned this piece, because, of course, everyone plays it, or at least knows it! But my teacher chose this because he wanted me to learn something a little easier than usual so I could work on phrasing and interpretation. He said I have been limiting myself by playing inside a small box. So this is my attempt to "play outside the box". It's a little scary to present something in this way, since in a sense, it exposes a part of you. You are making a definite statement about how you want a piece of music to sound, and you leave yourself open to criticism of that choice. Compare this with trying to play a technically difficult piece. That can almost feel safer, because if you fumble parts of it or make a mistake, people are very understanding. And yet, going through this process was somehow exhilarating and freeing. I'll look forward to doing more of this. So here it is -- my interpretation of a well-known piece that I have come to know and appreciate. |
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29 | | Performer's name: | Allard | From: | Netherlands | Experience: | 1 year | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Before the Last Leaf Falls | Composer: | David Lanz | Duration: | 02:42 | Source of music: | The Ultimate David Lanz Collection (New Age Easy Piano) | Instrument used: | Yamaha P95 | Recording method: | Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is the first piece in the collection of easy piano arrangements for David Lanz's popular songs. I noticed a few other David Lanz songs in the recital archives, but not this one and it's such a lovely piece! This easy arrangement lowers the key from D major to C major (I think), simplified chords and replaces some of the octaves in the right hand with single notes, but leaves the melody and dynamics intact. |
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30 | | Performer's name: | Jazzwee | From: | Los Angeles | Experience: | 8 Years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Blue Monk | Composer: | Thelonious Monk | Duration: | 07:44 | Source of music: | Live Improvised (played from memory) | Instrument used: | Nord Piano 88 - I was using the Bosendorfer Imperial patch and that really sounds too percussive in hindsight. I should have used the Grand Lady D patch for this. | Recording method: | Live recording using Zoom H4N on a boom above the band. This was at a live venue (small restaurant). Chopped up and exported in Audacity. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | The crowd yelled for Blues, so we gave it to them. But this is really a Rock style blues. Slower than Jazz. I'm not a blues player BTW so this is not my forte. |
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31 | | Performer's name: | zrtf90 (Richard) | From: | Ireland | Experience: | Many years playing but returned last Christmas after a fifteen year hiatus. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Romance Sans Paroles, Op. 17 No. 3 | Composer: | Faure | Duration: | 02:30 | Source of music: | Memorised from the score. | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CLP-500 (1989) | Recording method: | Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | In mid October I committed to the RST Mendelssohn recital and thought I'd better give this recording business a whirl after many years absence and picked a piece I thought I could refresh in two or three weeks. Hmmm!
I have simultaneously overplayed it and and under-rehearsed it and consequently will be leaving more time for future recitals.
There are still some problems with phrasing and timing but this final take is now fairly representative of my usual interpretation of the piece. ___________________________
Faure was 18 when he wrote this, the third of a set of three songs without words. The other two are rarely heard and seldom recognised. I first heard this one when my sister was learning it for her Grade 7 exam. I didn't learn it myself until 1984, ten years later. I dropped it shortly afterwards with a view to a redistribution of notes among the hands for the climax. It didn't work but it screwed up my original fingering so I dropped it again for many years.
I went back to this again last February and March and reverted to my original fingering, or fairly close to it, and feel happier with the piece.
It is normally a beautiful piece of music and I'm surprised that it hasn't yet shown up in an ABF recital. |
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32 | | Performer's name: | TX-Dennis/Dennis Turner | From: | Texas | Avatar: | | Experience: | Forever and a day. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Be Thou My Vision | Composer: | Traditional Irish Hymn | Duration: | 03:02 | Source of music: | I played this from sheets. | Instrument used: | Kawai GE-30 | Recording method: | Tascam DR-05 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Be Thou My Vision is an English translation of a traditional Irish hymn. The words are believed to have been written by Saint Dallan Forgaill (ca. 530 - 598). The music is the melody of an old Irish folksong called Slane about Slane Hill where Saint Patrick lit candles for Easter in defiance of the pagan king L'egaire of Tara. |
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33 | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | From: | Montreal | Experience: | 6 years of piano experience + 5 years many years ago | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | My Way | Composer: | Claude Francois, popularized by F.Sinatra | Duration: | 02:47 | Source of music: | My cover of the song. | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 with software Piano | Recording method: | Roland FP7 - GarageBand - kontakt piano samples | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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34 | | Performer's name: | LizAnne | From: | Canada | Experience: | I have played for about two years every decade of my life and have had to restart each time. This cycle, I started in Feb 2012 after ten years without a piano. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Elegy Op.183, No.2 | Composer: | Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) | Duration: | 01:23 | Source of music: | Royal Conservatory of Music Curriculum Grade 2 | Instrument used: | Roland RP301 digital | Recording method: | Red Dot Forever, digital to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | In all my mottled piano history, nobody has ever taught me what dynamics are and how to do them. That's what I'm working on now. This is a simple piece (for most of you), but for me it is interesting dynamic-wise. Sorry about the chords not being very in sync. Still working on that. |
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35 | | Performer's name: | MrPozor | From: | France | Experience: | 7 months self-teaching but actively looking for a teacher now. | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | http://youtu.be/xStsoicBaGk | Title of piece: | The Doll's Funeral | Composer: | Tchaikovsky, P.I. | Duration: | 01:39 | Source of music: | Album for the Young ABRSM Easier Piano Pieces | Instrument used: | Petrof 118 L1 | Recording method: | HTC Desire (video) Zoom H1 (audio) Magix Video Deluxe 2013 Trial (cutting) | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Thanks in advance for your feedback. I would also like to hear what you think of the piano itself. I'm not sure whether it is in need of tuning. |
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36 | | Performer's name: | lyricmudra | From: | Illinois | Experience: | Learned classical piano as a child until I was 13 or 14 years old. Did not touch the piano for some 35 years until about three years ago. I have not taken piano lessons since childhood but I plan to find a teacher in the near future. | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnLxmKyERDQ | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/lyricmudra | Title of piece: | Consolation No. 3 | Composer: | Franz Liszt | Duration: | 03:53 | Source of music: | Sheet music | Instrument used: | Kawai RX-2 Blak | Recording method: | Zoom H4N and Kodak Zi8 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I've always wanted to learn this piece, but have always felt intimidated by it largely because it is quite popular. I finally had the chance to attempt to conquer it! :-) |
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37 | | Performer's name: | TrapperJohn | From: | Central PA | Experience: | 7 | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | I'll Be Seeing You | Composer: | Sammy Fain (M) & Irving Kahal (L) | Duration: | 03:22 | Source of music: | Decade By Decade - 1930s (Arrangements by Dan Coates) | Instrument used: | Clavinova CP-301 | Recording method: | Digital to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | They don't write songs like this anymore - and that's a real damn shame!
A good educated guess about this song's origins might be that it was yet another one of those great songs that seemed to flow constantly out of the wonderful musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein. And this would be a good guess, but incorrect.
It is from a musical, but not one of R & H's. It first appeared in the rather obscure 1938 musical "Right This Way", which ran for a grand total of 15 performances (well, at least it made it past opening night!). But, while the show is little known and long forgotten this marvelous song lives on, as popular today as it was then. It has become a classic of the genre. If the songs of The Great American Songbook (roughly the chart topping tunes from 1925 to 1955, or so) represent the best of American popular music (and I firmly believe they do) then this song is one of it's crowning jewels. In fact, with it's gorgeously soaring melody and tender and heartfelt lyrics it is widely considered one of top 5 or 10 most beautiful songs ever composed. And over the decades it has been recorded by almost everyone under the sun.
"I'll Be Seeing You" first gained it's justifiably widespread popularity during World War II when so very many were separated from loved ones - especially those on the battle front who were so far removed from those on the home front. From all indications it came to hold the same intensely personal meaning for Americans that a song such as "The White Cliffs of Dover" did for Britishers, or as "I'll Be Home For Christmas" did for both. Since then it has come to serve more or less as an anthem for those pinning away sadly from a lost love, whether from someone special "passing on" or simply "passing through" one's life...
And the amazingly ostentatious and superbly talented pianist and showman Liberace (Lib-er-ah-chee) thought so highly of this song that he used it as the theme song of his immensely popular TV show in the 1950s (and please don't reveal your youthful sheltered-life existence here by asking "Lib-er-who?" - shame on you! - check him out on YT).
For those who may wish to sing along here are the song's warmly nostalgic and softly poignant lyrics:
I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places, That this heart of mine embraces All day through.
In that small cafe, The park across the way, The children's carousel, The chestnut tree, the wishing well.
I'll be seeing you In every lovely summer's day, In everything that's light and gay, I'll always think of you that way.
I'll find you in the morning sun, And when the night is new, I'll be looking at the moon, But I'll be seeing you.
[Repeat from "In that small cafe..."]
There are any number of excellent versions of this popular masterpiece on YouTube - I especially recommend those of Linda Eder and Vera Lynn.
I have always loved this song, and learning to play it was one of my major goals as an amateur pianist, and was a complete "labor of love" for me - and I hope you enjoy. In the meantime, I'll be seeing you...
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38 | | Performer's name: | DadAgain (& DadAgains Daughter) | From: | Brisbane, Australia | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Rondo Op163 #6 | Composer: | Diabelli | Duration: | 01:55 | Recording method: | Dell laptop internal microphone (sorry) sound is particularly bad today! | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | - Piano badly needs a tune (recent weather changes have not gone down well) - Recording was a rush job, no time to record better pieces we both had lined up - First attempt at a duet with the 2 of us!
(Piece was actually just given to daughter by her teacher 2 weeks prior for performance in a concert this weekend)
We'll try and be more organised and make a better submission next time, but got sidetracked by daughters violin exam coming up next week... We did still want to make sure we put something up though! |
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39 | | Performer's name: | Ganddalf | From: | Norway | Experience: | 45 years. Sorry, no teacher to blame. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Prelude Op.45 | Composer: | Chopin | Duration: | 04:26 | Source of music: | Sheet music (Peters edition) | Instrument used: | Yamaha Avant Grand N1 | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Trying for the first time to share my piano music on the web. I have no experience in recording my music, but I hope that the sound quality will be ok. Comments, even nasty ones, are welcome, and I hope for good suggestions of how to improve. At an age of 62 I still think it is possible. |
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