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Thanks Anthony and agreed,
Nightbook - that's going to have to wait. With Divenire and Best of I'm going to be busy for quite some time!
- SC

I saw/heard Ludovico this month in London at the Royal Albert Hall. It was also packed out.

I was intrigued by the fourth addition to his ensemble who 'played' with a laptop and presumably a mixer. He participated in acknowledging the ovations so was definitely part of the performance. At one part I thought he was taking a live mic'ed feed from Ludovico's Steinway and changing the sound with embellishments.

Did you have that too in the concert you attended, and what did you make of it?

They were selling his sheet music in London.

He was in this concert also. I believe he was feeding background sound effects to some of the music they were playing. Also, but i'm sure, he was controling some of the lighting.

I know he had at least one track in the computer which was planets from the Nighbook cd. He play it as three of the members walk from the entrance to the stage playing along with it.

Yeah we had him too, I believe it was just to control some of the sound effects that you obviously get on the CD but can't replicate with piano alone.

Royal Albert eh? very jealous!
- SC

Here's my latest Einaudi recording, if for no other reason than to bump the Einaudi thread back to the first page. It's "I Giorni," a piece I recorded on my H4 a couple of years ago but never made a video of. It's a frustrating piece to record because (as those of you who have played it know full well) the trickiest part of the piece comes at the light delicate arpeggios near the end that need to be played very softly. I don't know how many times I've gotten five minutes of a good take only to start those arpeggios and then skip a note or two in my attempt to play them pp.

Beautiful Monica!
- SC

Well I've finished up La Nascita Delle Cose Segrete so now I just need to get a quite day so I can try to get a good recording of it. I also confess to not doing (this week) most of the other reg practice stuff I am supposed to (chords, daily dozen etc) since I couldn't put Primavera down (lol)

I should hopefully have one or both of them up here in a bit, although I really need to keep one of them for the next recital (eek!)
- SC

Oh, I love Primavera, Ttigg! I vote for that one for the recital.

Can't wait to hear both of those pieces TTigg.

I've yet to tackle a piece from Divenire. Primavera is sort of an obvious first choice as it doesn't seem nearly as difficult to play as some of the others from the album. Who knows, maybe I'll wind up picking something harder as the first piece I attempt to tackle from there. However, I think I'm going to wait a while before trying and try to revisit some pieces I attempted in the past but never quite finished work on. I'm thinking of at least one piece from Una Mattina and one from Le Onde for ones I might complete work on next. Of course I do tend to be terrible at predicting the next piece I'll actually learn so who knows what will happen!

Thanks, you guys are making me nervous

Anthony, you'd love Primavera and you'd have it down in 3days (max)
- SC

(Note to self... if you ever get Le Onde down, take a look at Primavera next...)

The notes for Primavera are easier than Le Onde... the kicker is the tempo. Still, when all is said and done, I found Primavera easier than Le Onde, though I will also confess to talking myself into concluding that Primavera still sounds good at a slower tempo.

Absolutely beautiful Playing.
I had to laugh Monica because I read an older post where Mr. Superhunky said you had nice legs, then....the next video you posted you are wearing long pants!!!!
I actually thought that it was lovely to get such a global compliment....nice legs and great skills at the piano...kinda like Diana Krall or Nora Jones!!!

If only!!

The weather in Kentucky is quite variable. We can have shorts-wearing days in January but snow in April.

Yes, I have experienced a spring in Kentucky. We took our children to Mammoth Cave for a spring break (1st week of April). It SNOWED!!! Fortunately, we spent so much time in the caves we didn't mind. And we are all rugged--somewhat of a necessity living in Michigan.

I still may play this for the upcoming recital but I couldn't resist posting this video here.

It's me playing Indaco along with my cat Drummer being an appreciative audience member. He was just sitting up on the piano purring the entire time I was playing.

If I do wind up using this piece for the recital I will probably make a different recording of it as there are still some places that could use improvement. (Aren't there always?)

If don't want to hear the piece before I use it for the recital then simply don't watch it! :P

Even if you got a technically better take, Anthony, I'm not sure it would make up for missing out on the artistry of Drummer perched on the piano while you're playing.

Sometimes what I do is post a YouTube video that is of a different take than my mp3 that I uploaded. You can always do that for the recital; that way the 'improved' mp3 would be used for the zip files will be there, but you'd have the nice video with the cat also archived.

Yeah, and it is much easier to to many audio recording takes without worrying about having the camera up and recording with proper lighting for each take. (Again, one of the benefits of my digital is that I don't need to be concerned with other sounds!)

Pianomonica I just wanted to say how much I loved your YouTube videos. I hadn't heard of Einaudi before but I love that style.

And AnthonyB I love that piece you played.

I think this is my favorite thread on ABF!

Thanks, 20thCenturyBoy!! Are you playing any Einaudi yourself?

This is a terrific thread indeed.