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This is a work that is rather more difficult to play than it seems. I have made a stab at mastering the element and many positives shine, but I am sure a chorus will agree more work is needed for a final polish!

Andante Spianato
https://www.box.com/s/cqjwaom9t83uz3xg40a2

Grand Polonaise Brilliante
https://www.box.com/s/kvmwdnooyexkz8f1wi2w

I'm a little too busy to listen right now, but later today I will post some feedback when I have time to listen carefully.

I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time listening carefully to BachMach2.

Poly: Before spending time, make sure to check out some of the replies to his prior posts.

Marc_C :

Surely you wouldn't want Polyphonist to approach this listening experience with any pre-conceived notions, would you, based on impressions of previous "performances" from this member? Why not let him come to it open-minded?

I, for one, find myself at a loss for words in this instance, therefore I eagerly await a searching review and detailed critique from one who hesitates not to say what he thinks.

Cheers!

All right. I'm going to be listening to the performance now. I'm just going to do a running commentary as I listen, and then listen once more afterwards while reading through my comments.
Here goes!

...

After listening to about 20 seconds of it, I have one comment: Is this a joke? If it is, it's in very poor taste...and if it's not, well...







...no comment.


Sorry if I disappointed you.

Good job.
You figured it out about a month faster than any of the rest of us did.
And I think some members still aren't sure.

I've been researching some history here...and I have another question: why is this poster not banned yet?

I wondered that a bit too. I think the main answer is that our moderators and admins are very reluctant to take any such actions and have the bar set pretty high. (Or low, depending on how we want to look at it.)
Also we could say that while these posts are (presumably) basically fraudulent, they're harmless. Some people even find them amusing, and some even think they're pretty high humor (and I don't mean stoned, although I could.)
Still, if I were 'staff' (and I'm glad I'm not) I'd at least tell him to cut it out.

Good question !!!

Has he ever come back to respond on any one of his ridiculous threads?

He's probably always been too busy laughing.

I guess not-looks like his "All Posts" list is exactly the same as his "Topics Created" list.

Maybe if we just ignored his posts-he'd stop trolling.

The sad thing is that technically, he's recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas, and we haven't though....hahaaa

Thanks for mentioning that -- I never realized we had such a thing!

I could go right now, sit at the piano, and sight-read through the complete sonatas, and have a better recording than his.

Come to think of it, I could do that for any piece.

Words in parentheses are my own.

As always, BachMach2 delivers a stunning performance! Beautiful piano sound, wonderful recording equipment and techniques, brilliant acoustics, and the playing is of course, just marvelous. Wonderful pauses scattered throughout add to the meditative quality of Chopin's music, while extra notes not written in the score are added for a little extra dissonance where it is artistically useful.

I have extra tickets to the BachMach2 recital at Carnegie Hall next month, and I'll let them go for only $2000 each! Rumor has it there will be a specially selected Belarus (or perhaps it was Brambach; I can't recall) spinet piano with a concert tuning done by yours truly (with a full month of piano tuning experience) in my newly developed proprietary 'awful temperament!'