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| 40 | | | Performer's name: | Copper | | From: | Virginia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 9 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | To a Wild Rose | | Composer: | Edward MacDowell | | Duration: | 02:47 | | Source of music: | The Library of Piano Classics | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Connected the Yamaha P-250 to the computer | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 41 | | | Performer's name: | Andy Platt | | From: | Arlington, VA | | Experience: | Years of noodling, four years of lessons | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 | | Composer: | Bela Bartok | | Duration: | 06:22 | | Source of music: | Alfred Masterwork Edition | | Instrument used: | Kawai K3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 and Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've grown to really like this piece. It's six dances, some upbeat, some more laid back. The harmonies are simpler when you analyze than might appear - Bartok was great at just subtly changing one note and making things sound very exotic but - at the same time - grounded. A number of times he will repeat the melody with different harmonies.
I recorded the first five dances in one take. That wasn't really my intention, I just kept going and there it was. So there are small bumps in most of the dances which I could have avoided if I had recorded each separately until I got a good take. But I felt the "whole" was more consistent.
The sixth, though, I couldn't get in the same recording because I was playing from memory and it wasn't memorized. So that was recorded a few weeks later.
One thing that I feel I haven't brought out is enough dynamic range. It's funny, when I play them I feel the dynamics but they aren't coming through in the recording very well.
Oh, and I used the correct characters for Bela's name originally but it didn't come through correctly so I've reverted to the Anglicized version. |
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| 42 | | | Performer's name: | carlos88 | | From: | Colorado | | Experience: | year 3 back as an adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | From a sketchbook (D'un cahier d'esquisses) | | Composer: | Debussy | | Duration: | 04:44 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 + Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Not quite ready for the recital - about 2-3 more weeks of work left on the piece. The mistakes right now were in places that weren't surprising.
Recorded it about 10 times, sounded way too fast in some of the parts. Something to work on next.
I'm not sure what Debussy had in his sketchbook, but to me, it's all quiet ocean and moonlight, waves moving in and out. |
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| 43 | | | Performer's name: | Jazztpt (Russ) | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 38+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Pictures | | Composer: | Jazztpt | | Duration: | 02:34 | | Source of music: | Original | | Instrument used: | Roland HP507 | | Recording method: | Direct to Piano then converted to MP3 in Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wrote this tune a few years ago but have been workng on this arrangent of it for about a year on and off. I was going to submit it to the recital previously but found I couldn't actually play it very well. Finally thought it was ready but when I came to record it a few weeks ago I found I was mistaken!
Boy did I have trouble getting this recorded, brain going blank , fingers not working , fingers like bananas when the red light went on. I am sure you all know the drill.
This was to be my last try and I managed a version of it though far from where I want it to be, I speed up and play it too fast for my fingers but hey , keep practicing.
I titled it Pictures for no other reason than I have taken up photography and "pictures" are on my mind :-) |
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| 44 | | | Performer's name: | wimpiano | | From: | the Netherlands | | Experience: | Started October 2013 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Telemann - Fantasia in E Minor | | Composer: | Georg Philipp Telemann | | Duration: | 00:52 | | Source of music: | Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 1
http://www.alfred.com/Products/Essential-Keyboard-Repertoire-Volume-1--00-501C.aspx | | Instrument used: | Schimmel 116S, 1999 | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-07 MK2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Thanks for listening. This is my first submission.
It is meant to be faster but that's above my current ability. |
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| 45 | | | Performer's name: | torquenale (alessandra) | | From: | Italy | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Started again October 2011 (some useless years as a child - teen) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dance (from Four Rondos op. 60) | | Composer: | Dmitri Kabalevsky | | Duration: | 01:22 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Apollo upright | | Recording method: | Zoom H4n - normalized in Audacity and converted into mp3 format | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A nice little piece, in the middle part it makes me think to a Fellini circus.
Sorry for the mistakes! |
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| 46 | | | Performer's name: | rerun | | From: | Louisiana | | Experience: | 7+ years at PianoMagic | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Tipitina 5 14 14 | | Composer: | Professor Longhair | | Duration: | 03:07 | | Source of music: | played by ear | | Instrument used: | Celviano AP-24 | | Recording method: | Recorded from DP speakers to Audacity with laptop/internal mike sitting nearby ... 1st take and completely unedited including volume and with no piano sound fonts used .... sorry about the dead air time at the start and finish and the clangors. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Having barely looked at the dp in the last month, I was planning to post a version of Tipitina closer to the version Longhair plays, but my RH hand isn't there yet so I went with an easier version.
You guys deserve better than this, but rather than pass this recital up because of little prep time I decided to just post something (if it wasn't an absolute train wreck) and hope my calendar is not a mess before the next recital. Peanut butter crackers for lunch. |
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| 47 | | | Performer's name: | TrapperJohn | | From: | Central PA | | Experience: | 9+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ashokan Farewell | | Composer: | Jay Ungar (Arrangement by Dan Coates) | | Duration: | 02:54 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music from Alfred | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CP-301 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Ashokan Farewell" gained worldwide fame when it was chosen to serve as the recurring theme of Ken Burns' masterful 1990 PBS TV documentary miniseries "The Civil War". It is heard numerous times, in whole or in part, throughout the multi-part series, usually appearing during the most tragic and saddest segments. This is entirely appropriate because, although it is a waltz, it is a waltz in the form of a Scottish Lament. The version heard during the series has the composer on violin with his wife accompanying on guitar.
Just about every piece of music heard throughout "The Civil War" - and there is a lot of it - is music from that era. "Ashokan Farewell" is not. It was composed in 1982 as a farewell or goodbye salute or tribute to the students who attended Ungar's music camp near the Ashokan Reservoir in New York. Ken Burns later heard it and quickly snatched it up as the theme of his documentary - one more stroke of genius among many connected with that miniseries.
The version I play here is an easy piano arrangement by the ubiquitous and talented Dan Coates. This is an updated rendition of this piece that I had submitted to a Recital a few years ago. I decided to re-record it because (1) I think it's a wonderful piece of music that I love playing and which I thought I could improve upon; and (2) the piece I was working on for quite some time for this Recital, "The Phantom of the Opera", was far too long and complicated - given the time and effort invested in my other current hobbies - to get into a recordable state in time. Next Recital...maybe...
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| 48 | | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | | From: | Ireland | | Experience: | oh, loads. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz in D flat, Op. 64 No. 1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 02:12 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a pre-recording that I planned my work around then life interrupted.
I've played the piece for years but it needed refreshing. I still have it to do. |
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| 49 | | | Performer's name: | Pathbreaker (Tarik) | | From: | Massachusetts | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 13 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Op. 118 Intermezzo 1 & 2 | | Composer: | Brahms | | Duration: | 08:29 | | Source of music: | sheet | | Recording method: | Audacity. Both played in single take. It was hard to be satisfied with both in any given take. Usually one was good and the other bad. This one I prefer the A major and the A minor is kind of not what I wanted but will do. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The first Intermezzo is a new piece that I didn't really intend to learn but somehow got sucked in. To justify learning it I decided to re-learn the A major intermezzo because I think it is a piece that's worth keeping in my repertoire.
Some background:
I started playing piano at the age of 20 with no experience in music. I had become really obsessed with classical piano and decided to find a teacher to learn how to play. I stayed with the same teacher for my first three years and then moved on for various reasons. It was at this time that I found Piano World and found a great deal of encouragement and guidance. A few years later I took a long hiatus after basically 'quitting' piano and did not really visit this forum. For the last two years I slowly got back into playing but I've only played for myself and nobody ever hears me play. Luckily there are these wonderful recitals so that I can have the motivation to play much more! |
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| 50 | | | Performer's name: | Valencia | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata Op. 109 3rd mvt -Theme only!! | | Composer: | Beethoven | | Duration: | 02:25 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A last minute decision to submit this piece! The 3rd movement of Beethoven's wonderful sonata Op. 109 is written as a set of 6 variations on a theme. Here I've only submitted the theme. If you've never heard the 3rd movement or the entire sonata for that matter then I encourage doing so as it is breathtakingly beautiful . By the sixth variation the piece is otherworldly, and yet in the end, there is a return to the simple and enduring theme. One of my favorite performances is by James Rhodes and can be found here (with added captions in the video so you know when each variation begins) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ayD3BjplY
The theme is extremely challenging and a work-in-progress. Some skills I'm working on to play it successfully are striking the notes together so they sound at exactly the same time (within intervals or chords) and my touch on the keys (so that each note isn't like a stomp on the eardrum). Right now I'm really focused on sounding the notes together and so my dynamics are on the flat side. I also like the way James Rhodes detaches the notes on the repeat of the first few bars and while I tried to do that here, I have not yet mastered it.
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