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Do I have to make a video, or can it be a recording?

I make a recording, slap a picture on it in Windows Movie Maker(when it chooses to cooperate) and post it on You Tube that way.

I'm excited about the turnout so for this recital!

I loved listening to the Mendelssohn recital and now that I feel a bit more confident with my playing, I am determined to participate in this recital. However, I am not very familar with Grieg's Lyrical Ballads.

Does anyone, who is more acquainted with his music, have a suggestion for a piece would be a good choice for someone who is currently working on Chopin's Waltz in A minor post.

Check the grades on the Henle website.

I listened to several pieces on the list, ahh I really wanted to have a go at learning "Once Opon a Time" and "Summer Evening", but I think maybe Melody op. 47 would be enough of a challenge.

Learn all three of them.

That would be an adventure for sure, and one I would like to try. Unfortunately, I do need to leave some time in the day for studying physics.

Then again I do love learning why my piano sounds so beautiful and I appreciate the craftmanship more and more. Why do you study physics? In order to build wondrous pianos?

What brand is it?

Albert is a Schimmel. Why Albert? Well, I thought German piano needs a good German name, and since I am a physics student Albert Einstein is never far away from my thoughts. Secondly, when I first played the piano I thought it possessed a noble tone. There it is!

A grand?

Sadly not a grand, one day, on my grand quest for a piano my father pointed out that an upright would be easier to find a place for when I go to college. Albert's is a Konzert 132.

..I wonder who'd win if they had a fight?

IreneAdler - are you saying you want to have 47:3 (melody)?

I'm guessing that Mendelssohn would have kicked Grieg's scrawny little backside. I don't mean musically, I mean literally - since Grieg was only four when Mendelssohn died.

A 4 yr old beats a dead guy any day :P

I have started working on mine It isn't going to be too tough except for the 32nd note arpeggios ACK!!!!!!

Those aren't bad though - no jumps involved; difficult bit will be making them even and light. "Just" roll your hand right and left and the notes will come out. (Perhaps I shouldn't say this sat at my desk instead of a piano.)

I think the hardest thing about your piece is going to be making it sound as pretty and beautiful as it looks like it should be - that looks a challenge!

I'm doing the first lines of mine (op. 54 no. 6) and it's not too bad as long as I follow the intervals... but I think I will have to ask for advice, not really sure of tempo, pedal changes, and fingering of the big chords at the end. Maybe I can open a thread about it.

I started at the end, and immediately got stuck with an impossible reach if both note value and pedal are kept so it doesn't blur. I found a compromise of distributing the notes, dropping one note at the very end and am sort of "spread over" the piano. An interesting start.

I learned an interesting thing. My dropped note is a high E where there are already two octave E's, and apparently the harmonics will let the ear hear the E that isn't there. The biggest challenge right now is not to let tension come in on held notes.

Firstly, this is Opus 71 No 6 (let's all mention the piece if we discuss it so we know which one we're talking about.) I'm not sure that's the right approach. That arpeggio needs to have the top E. In fact it's the most important one. What I would try is half pedal to help retain the lowest bass notes which you move off of immediately after playing. The IMSLP version I'm looking at suggests the switch on the higher of the two bass Es from thumb to 5th finger.