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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | patH / Patrick Hollstein | | From: | Germany | | Experience: | Since 1974 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd173MCJrXQ | | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | | Title of piece: | Der tanzende Schwan (The dancing swan) | | Composer: | Patrick Hollstein | | Duration: | 07:20 | | Source of music: | Own composition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | | Recording method: | Acoustic recording with Zoom h2n, WAV file manipulated with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Homage to G.Rossini (the Swan of Pesaro); composed in 2003 |
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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | aTallGuyNH | | From: | United States | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 18 months (barely a toddler!) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/1m6DuP1aJFw | | Title of piece: | New York State of Mind (intro only) | | Composer: | Billy Joel | | Duration: | 02:14 | | Source of music: | Sheet music from "PianoJohn113" on YouTube. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha baby grand (6') | | Recording method: | Droid phone video, converted to MP3. No post-processing. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Apologies for the clipping and overall poor audio quality.
Although this is only a portion of the song and the recording quality is painfully bad, I decided to submit it because it was a very rare chance for me to sit at a superbly maintained baby grand, the best piano I've ever played (by far), in a truly unique acoustical environment. The recording is from a ~6000 sq. ft. hall, about 100 years old, constructed entirely of wood aside from the concrete floor. I've never played in a world-class concert hall (of course), but I would expect that the reverb is similar. I wish I had better recording equipment (and chops) to do both the piano and venue justice, but hopefully some of that shine will come across despite the limitations.
A pic and more info on the venue are here on the AOTW thread: https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2126154/Re:%20Achievement%20of%20the%20week%20-%20.html#Post2126154
Also, I have an occupational hazard (as a father) that I am obliged to wear any jewelry made by my children and gifted to me at least until the end of that day, so you can hear a bottle cap bracelet clinking repeatedly. I didn't realize it was making all that noise until I watched the video the next day -- too late to record again at that point.
Re: the song itself, it is my very favorite of Billy Joel's songs, and I listen to it -- singing along with completely unabashed gusto, to heck with what my fellow commuters might think of me -- on an almost daily basis in my car. The intro is all that I've learned so far, and it's very slow -- about half of proper speed. It has a long way to go to be at a proper speed and rhythm, but I'm actually happy with this recording. There are some pretty substantial hesitations (these are much more painful on YouTube vs. the MP3 because you can actually see me fumbling about -- I'm watching and yelling at myself "B-flat, B-FLATTTT!!!... come ON already..."), and it is my usual overall rhythmic mess, but no jarring or cringe-worthy mistakes. Basically, this is the very best I can do at this juncture. Two takes, so I was very happy all things considered.
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | PikaPianist | | From: | Brisbane | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2xZYfLT0c | | Title of piece: | Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3, Gb major | | Composer: | Schubert | | Duration: | 06:00 | | Source of music: | IMSLP | | Instrument used: | Kawai CS6 digital piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This impromptu is definitely my favourite of all Schubert impromptus. Beautiful, lyrical, elegant, full of colour, and deceptively simple.
I'm sure anyone who has attempted this impromptu will agree that this piece is insanely difficult to play well, even though on the page it looks pretty straight-forward. The main difficulty lies in controlling the balance between the singing melody and the underlying atmospheric texture. Although this recording is still not a perfect performance, I have to say I'm quite proud of myself for persevering through countless numbers of bad takes attempting to bring out the beauty in this piece. |
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 7 years with Pianoworld + 5 years of lesson many years ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Manha de Carnaval | | Composer: | Luiz Bonfa | | Duration: | 01:43 | | Source of music: | Video and lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 | | Recording method: | Macbook Pro, Garageband. Accompaniement track create by Band in a Box | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I don't practice anymore but I could not miss the recital, I hope to resume piano this fall after I completed another project.
I got this tutorial a few years ago but found it boring but with the added accompaniement track, it was fun to play. |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | Anne H | | From: | Mississippi | | Experience: | Six months as a returning adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Julia arr. by Phillip Keveren | | Composer: | The Beatles | | Duration: | 04:09 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | 1963 Steinway console | | Recording method: | Zoom H4N | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | I didn't think I was going to make this recital and the Grieg one, but at the last minute I decided that I wanted to submit this time. This is a recording of an arrangement that I first picked up when I started piano again several months ago, so it felt appropriate to post it here for my first recital. |
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | Dumik | | From: | Finland | | Experience: | about 6 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Chopin nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 04:07 | | Source of music: | Yamaha 50 greats for the piano | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CLP-430 | | Recording method: | Pianos own recording system | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was played with my new Yamaha which I got couple weeks ago. I had not played with pedal before that so it created its own difficulties. This is also my first recital. |
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | dynamobt/ Marilyn | | From: | USA | | Experience: | Returning adult. 1 year of lessns since return | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Seasons, June | | Composer: | Tchaikovsky | | Duration: | 05:35 | | Source of music: | Jurgenson Edition | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB 1918 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2n | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One take. As is often the case with me. I really do try and treat this as a "recital" rather than a recording session.
This piece gave me challenges. It sounded so easy when Richter and Ashkenazy played it! Well, isn't that always the case?? Very pretty melody that compelled me to practice. I had never heard this piece before it being assigned to me. My teacher said that Tchaikovsky wrote mostly for orchestra. Thus the difficult reaches in the piece. Be prepared for some interesting fingering!! Lovely harmonics. Have enjoyed bringing this piece to recorded capability! |
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | | From: | Santa Fe, NM | | Experience: | 2 years as a teen, 30+ years off, playing for dancing since 1995 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Shine On Harvest Moon | | Composer: | Nora Bayes-Norworth, music; Jack Norworth, lyrics | | Duration: | 02:35 | | Source of music: | Original sheet music, in a collection I can't find at the minute  | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-100 | | Recording method: | digital to pc, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | This entered my repertoire a couple of months ago and the seniors love it. It's not quite as jaunty here as I was thinking, but at I did manage to get a take without as much clipping as usual. With this piece and a couple of others I've added this year I finally have an hour's worth of mostly (really) oldies, which I mix with Scottish and Irish tunes so I don't play the same thing at every seniors gig.
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | ClavBoy | | From: | Germany | | Experience: | 2 years mostly self-learning, very few practising in the last months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/vBjvQ2Zx81k | | Title of piece: | Minuet in D minor | | Composer: | Leopold Mozart | | Duration: | 00:56 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7F | | Recording method: | Roland R-05 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Practising not very much in the last months, just too tired and demotivated due to the job. I've not yet mastered the pedal for this piece, only in the first and last part. So, pedal is missing in the middle part. Also watch the youtube video. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | (Was) TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5t077Fg7WE | | Title of piece: | Childhood Memories | | Composer: | Original | | Duration: | 03:47 | | Source of music: | Self-composition | | Instrument used: | Essex Upright Piano | | Recording method: | Samsung Galaxy S3 phone, audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This time I tried to come up with something with a happier mood. I also tried to record using my phone for the first time. While the video seems to be better, there are a lot of clippings in the audio. Sorry about that, I will have a better recording next time. |
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | daveindenton | | From: | Denton, Texas | | Experience: | 3 Years, 6 Months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing | | Composer: | Robert Robinson | | Duration: | 02:18 | | Source of music: | Arrangement by John Zechiel. You can buy the sheets from him here:http://www.zechiel.com/john.html | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P120 | | Recording method: | Audacity via ProSonus Audiobox USB | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I grew up in the Baptist church, so I've always loved these old hymns. My Mom tried to drag me to piano lessons when I was 8, but I threw a fit and wouldn't go. So...30 years later I regretted it (of course) and started taking lessons on my own. This song is one of her favorites. Her memory is failing, so I'm glad to be able to play it for her now. |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | yester | | From: | Germany | | Experience: | 3 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | 5 little preludes No. 1 - BWV 939 | | Composer: | Bach | | Duration: | 00:39 | | Source of music: | sheet music: http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Kleine_Pr%C3%A4ludien,_BWV_939-943_%28Bach,_Johann_Sebastian%29 | | Instrument used: | Kawai MP 10 | | Recording method: | recorded with an usb-stick and normalized with audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | Allan W. | | From: | Michigan | | Experience: | Used to take lessons as a kid, stopped for over 10 years, restarted playing a year ago. I've been playing this piece for over 6 months so it's well polished by now. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-lLrclanw | | Title of piece: | Wind Scene - Chrono Trigger | | Composer: | Mitsuda / arr. by Zohar | | Duration: | 03:51 | | Source of music: | From the SNES video game Chrono Trigger, in which you and your party go on a time travelling adventure to save the world from an evil alien. Wind Scene is the background music for the 600 A.D. time period: medieval times. Jazzy arrangement by zohar002, one of my favorite arrangers.
Sheet music: https://www.dropbox.com/s/03sje30m9skelnv/Chrono%20Trigger%20-%20Wind%20Scene.pdf
Original music from the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHbhBef2t0w | | Instrument used: | Young Chang Y175, year 2012 | | Recording method: | Blue Yeti USB microphone, with unorthodox microphone placement method... Slight reverb added with Audacity's GVerb | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The last variation was cut since I still haven't learned it well. Also, there's a section with 3 on 2 rhythm throughout, I changed it to all triplets (well to be honest, I couldn't play the 3 on 2 rhythm when I first started this piece. And I like how the triplet feel sounds now)
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | CMohr | | From: | Oregon | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 6 or 7 years as a child. 4 years since returning to piano | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | "You've Changed" | | Composer: | Carl Fisher/music, William Carey/lyrics | | Duration: | 01:59 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet | | Instrument used: | 1907 Wellington upright | | Recording method: | The Mikey by Blue Microphones recorded on my iPod, converted to MP3 in iTunes | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my own arrangement of a tune which is a little outside the top 300 jazz standards.
I tried to play a little simpler and bring out the melody. This was also a one take recording. (rare for me!) I started working on this tune months ago, but had many distractions. So, came back to it to record for this recital. I hope you enjoy.
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | stumbler | | From: | Toronto | | Experience: | between 39 and 1 (First took lessons 39 years ago for 5 years. Taking lessons again for the past year.) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | A Lenda Do Caboclo W166 | | Composer: | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | | Duration: | 03:36 | | Source of music: | Sheet music (IMSLP) first edition (note: not public domain in EU) | | Instrument used: | Roland RD-700NX | | Recording method: | direct to flash on keyboard | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'd love to hear more Villa-Lobos in the recitals. I don't see anything by him in the recital index. If any of you are unfamiliar with this Brazilian composer, I suggest you listen to one of his best known works, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (listen to the second part, Danca, as well as the Aria).
"A Lenda Do Caboclo" doesn't seem to translate well into English. The best I can do is "The Legend of the Caboclo". While I did find a description of the word "Caboclo", it seemed that the meaning needs a Brazilain context I lack. I tried to find the story implied by the title, but the only one I've found, "Lenda Do Caboclo D'Agua" doesn't seem to fit.
This piece is the first one I've ever used the sostenuto pedal on. There are many places where a pair of low base notes need to be sustained while the left hand moves to a different part of the keyboard. I also find the regular damper pedaling a challenge. Another challenge is playing a handful of notes simultaneously---especially at pianissimo.
I still have work to do on this piece. The faster sections need more slow practice. Need more dynamic separation between melody and accompaniment. pp sections need to be quieter.
I hope to make a better recording before the Aug 14 9 PM deadline, but this time I think it better to submit now and hope to resubmit later. I don't think I can count on another 9:02 miracle.
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | TrapperJohn | | From: | Central PA | | Experience: | 7+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Medley: Drink With Me/Do You Hear The People Sing? (from Les Miserables) | | Composer: | Claude-Michel Schonberg (music); Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel & Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics) | | Duration: | 04:52 | | Source of music: | Songbook: Les Miserables Piano/Vocal Selections (updated) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CVP-301 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | And so the saga continues...
When we last encountered the compelling characters of that marvelously entertaining musical "Les Miserables" (back during the May, 2013 ABF Recital) the student Marius had joined his comrades at the barricades during the insurrection in the streets of 1832 Paris; had been seriously wounded by the government forces and had been carried off to safety by Jean Valjean; and had later returned to the cafe where he and his fellow students (now all dead) had planned their failed revolution, and where he now found only phantom faces and shadows - and those "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables".
But just before all that happened...
The students had been anxiously waiting for a special sign that would ignite them into action - and it came suddenly with the announcement of the death of their hero, General LaMarque, the only member of the otherwise oppressively authoritarian government who was sympathetic to their cause.
With this sad but inspiring announcement they took to the streets, marching with flags and weapons raised, hoping to incite the general population to join with them in their struggle, and as they vociferously demonstrated they sang their new anthem "Do You Hear The People Sing". When the marching and celebrating were done they got to work at once building the barricades behind which they would engage the National Guard in battle. When night fell - and after having been warned by a voice from a distance and out of the darkness that they would all perish in the morning - they nervously and sleeplessly waited, and reminisced and toasted each other, and sang of their friendship and loves and happier days with the song "Drink With Me (to Days Gone By)...
And then the morning came...
I play the songs in the order heard here because I think it works well musically that way. In the musical "Do You Hear..." comes both before and after "Drink With Me". It's first appearance is as described above, and then it is reprised at the very end of the musical - there it flows seamlessly right out of the quietly touching scene in which the musical's chief protagonist Jean Valjean dies and is escorted to heaven by the spirits of Fantine and Eponine, two good women who had tragically died earlier. With altered lyrics it starts very softly and gradually builds to a rousing, hair-raising, goose bump-inducing finale sung by the entire cast, including all of the "dead" characters (of which there were many).
And here are the moving - and highly literate - lyrics of these two inspiring and emotionally charged songs:
Drink With Me (to Days Gone By)
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Drink with me to days gone by.
Sing with me the songs we knew.
Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
Here's to witty girls who went to our beds.
Here's to them and here's to you.
Drink with me to days gone by.
Can it be you fear to die?
Will the world remember you when you fall?
Can it be your death means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?
Drink with me to days gone by.
To the life that used to be.
At the shrine of friendship never say die.
Let the wine of friendship never run dry.
Here's to you and here's to me.
Here's to you and here's to me.
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Do You Hear The People Sing?
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Do you hear the people sing
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums,
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes.
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Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
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Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance?
Some will fall and some will live.
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
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Here's to you...
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | timmyab | | From: | U.K. | | Experience: | 20+ years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata in C K545 | | Composer: | Mozart | | Duration: | 09:06 | | Source of music: | Mozart Sonatas (ABRSM) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP S30 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've omitted all of the repeats mainly to keep the piece as short as possible but also to make it much easier to get a decent take especially of the first movement.
I'm beginning to understand why so many pianists consider Mozart to be so intimidating.This is the easiest of the sonatas and yet it's impossible to make it sound any good.The first movement in particular could have been designed to show up my inadequate technique.You are totally exposed and nothing short of perfection is going to cut it.It's as though Mozart is sitting next to you at the piano, hurling insults and laughing at you. |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | Monica K. | | From: | Lexington, KY | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 9 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/DTGZqxnz02c | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/pianomonica | | Title of piece: | Discovery at Night | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 04:22 | | Source of music: | "In a Time Lapse" sheet music collection | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin A | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, normalized in Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is one of Einaudi's "jauntier" pieces, for want of a better word. While there are other pieces off his latest album that I like better, it wasn't that technically demanding (other than one wicked jump in the left hand that kept flubbing me up), so I decided to work it up. As with most of Einaudi's music, though, even if not technically demanding, the dynamics are key to playing it even semi-decently.
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | JimF | | From: | South Florida | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Canon in D Minor | | Composer: | Aleksandr Scriabin | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Estonia L190 | | Recording method: | Zoom H-1, just sitting on my music cabinet, piano lid down | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is Canon in D minor, by Aleksandr Scriabin. It was written in 1883 when he was quite young. I really love the moody tonality of this piece. Also, if you have ever wanted to conquer three against two polyrythms this is the piece to have at it. Three vs. two alternates left and right hands each measure, with lots of three against two using one hand for two voices as well.
Scriabin was an interesting guy. There is a good article about him at Wikipedia, including a picture as a boy with his piano teacher and five other classmates, one of whom was Rachmaninoff.
My appologies for the dog grumbles and poor recording quality. I had hoped to get a clean recording but it just wasn't going to happen on that day.
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | Sandy | | From: | Canada | | Experience: | 10+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Consolation | | Composer: | Felix Mendelssohn | | Duration: | 02:19 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha acoustic | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Mendelssohn is a favourite of mine and I've studied 5 or 6 of his easier Song's Without Words. This one is 'Consolation' Opus 30 No. 3. I hope you enjoy it.
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