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Here is my recording of the first Promenade and Gnomus from Pictures at an Exhibition made with a Yamaha GT-2 digital piano. I will post the remaining movements one by one (or two by two rather) in this thread as I progress with the piece. Feel free to give your feedback, I will have plenty of time to digest it before I start preparing the entire work.

Promenade - Gnomus

Can't wait to hear the rest! You're making me want to pull the score to this back out again.

Thanks! It's an incredibly fun piece to play, despite the occasionally awkward piano writing.

Nice! One of my favorites!

Those arpeggio thingies in Great Gate where the Promenade theme comes back, blehhhaerguhaerlgiuhargluh...

Yeah, luckily it will take a while before I have to deal with them...

Great playing! What was the piano in the recording?

It seemed like that in the Promenade the tempo slowed down when it switched from single notes to chords?

Thanks! The piano was a Yamaha GT-2 (GranTouch) digital, still perfectly in tune after 12 years lol! The GT-2 was one of the first ones with real grand piano actions. The recording was made with two omni mics placed above the speakers located under the lid.

I did a subito piano where the strings come in in Ravel's version and ended up pulling back the tempo a bit too much to accentuate this.

Here is the next installment:

Promenade - Il vecchio castello

P.S. There is a surprise at the end

Here's the next one:

Promenade - Tuileries

It's exciting following your journey through this! Thanks for sharing. Your progress is coming along well.

Thanks! It's hugely motivating to post the movements here, it makes me really listen to my playing and put in the extra effort.

Here is a musical depiction of my day job:

Bydlo

Aw, that's too bad that you feel that way about your job

Well played though!

Good playing, can't wait for the next part coming soon. Are you going to piece all of these recordings together? You should do that! And you should also make a 1-straight-take recording and share both of them with us.

Loved it!

Feebeeliszt, OSK, WinsomeAllegretto:

Thanks, so glad you enjoyed it!

I can definitely string these together once I have completed the set. I also just added track numbers to the file metadata, so if you download them now, iTunes for example will automatically group them together as an album in the correct order.

I plan to start performing the entire work later this year and will certainly record some of these performances. It will make an interesting comparison!

Here's the next one. I need to replace that creaky bench soon!

Promenade - Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Yay, keep them coming! You have presented us with pretty solid renditions of everything so far.

Overall, how difficult is this work for you, and do you have any insight from experience you could offer? What are the difficulties of this work to you? I'd like to play this piece sometime and having some inside info from someone who has played it is always nice.

Really enjoying them. Great playing!