Recital 11 -- August 15, 2008

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I am delighted to introduce our 11th quarterly Adult Beginners' Forum Recital. So, pull up a chair and have a listen.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask the audience to please refrain from commentary in this recital room.

A separate room has been provided for the purposes of intermezzo discussion. Please take any and all comments to the General Discussion Room and all critical discussion to the Critical Discussion Room .

Thank you.

A template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback:

Response Template

In addition to the zip files linked below, mahlzeit has added a feature to his program that creates an online streaming player. Just click on the link to hear all the recital pieces without having to download the zip files:

Online Streaming Player

For the convenience of forum members, mahlzeit's program has normalized the files for consistent volume and standardized the ID3 tags in a collection of zip files. This makes it easier to create personal CDs and playlists.

These zip files have been posted at the following URLs:

Recital 11 Zip File 1
Recital 11 Zip File 2
Recital 11 Zip File 3
Recital 11 Zip File 4
Recital 11 Zip File 5
Recital 11 Zip File 6
Recital 11 Zip File 7


The zip files, along with past recitals, have also been uploaded to:

http://www.esnips.com/web/PWRecitals


Let me express my greatest thanks to five very special people: mr_super-hunky for coming up with the idea of our online recitals, which have proven to be more successful than any of us ever dreamed; Bob Muir for working out the technical details of pulling together the recital and doing so tirelessly for the first six, count 'em, six, recitals; LaValse for hosting the zip files and recital software on his server; Copper for also hosting the zip files and trouble-shooting help; and last but not least, mahlzeit for writing the absolutely fantastic web-based recital program that we are using. THANK YOU MAHLZEIT!!! :2hearts:

AGAIN: DO NOT REPLY OR POST ON THIS THREAD!![/b]

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Performer's name:	Mark... [/b]
From:	Jersey Shore
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Experience:	19 months 16 with a teacher
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Prelude in D minor
Composer:	Muzio Clementi
Duration:	01:46
Source of music:	Alfred Adult method Book 3
Instrument used:	Kawai ES4 Digital Piano
Recording method:	Audacity on PC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Although this piece is short side, it is a very interesting piece and was very challenging. I still would like to clean it up more and really get it down. I look forward to playing this on a really good acoustic grand some day. Thanks for listening...Mark... PS: If this turns out to be the first submission, I promise you it gets much better...

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Performer's name:	Mateusz 'Mati' Papiernik [/b]
From:	Lodz, Poland
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Experience:	3.5 years of whole piano experience, 8 months really seriusly (from late December 2007) with digital piano and 88 weighted keys. For 3.5 months with a teacher, but due to summer break, not much work done. Until that time, self-taught.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Sonata No. 14 'Moonlight' in C# minor, Op. 27 No. 2: Adagio Sostenuto
Composer:	Ludwig van Beethoven
Duration:	05:40
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Kawai CN 21 / TruePianos
Recording method:	Recorded with Audacity using TruePianos 40-day trial computer piano synthesizer.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	As in all my performances, it's far from good to my ears. Honestly, it's sloppy, with at least three very bad slips. I went on a summer break with no piano there and then remembered that recital is coming. I went home for two days to record the piece, but after three weeks break I felt I no longer can play it as I could before. My fingers didn't want to cooperate. It's the last take from these two days, perhaps the best one. Not the best I ever did though. I hope it's not that bad after all, and... well, here it is - enjoy! Critical feedback seriously wanted.

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Performer's name:	Monica K. [/b]
From:	Lexington, Kentucky
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Experience:	4 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Nuvole Bianche
Composer:	Ludovico Einaudi
Duration:	05:56
Source of music:	Una Mattina sheet music collection
Instrument used:	Mason & Hamlin A
Recording method:	Zoom H4, normalized through Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	The title of this piece translates, I think, into "White Clouds," or possibly "Female White Clouds" or "White Clouds Woman" (depending on which online translator you use), which makes a lot less sense. Learning this piece was one of those all-too-rare transcendent piano experiences for me; it came to me much more quickly than most pieces do.

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Performer's name:	Lisztener [/b]
From:	Columbus, Ohio
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Experience:	Three years lessons altogether as an adolescent. Many years trial & error since then.
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apvgXgyWdYo&feature=user
Title of piece:	Whistling Away the Dark
Composer:	Mercer - Mancini
Duration:	04:13
Source of music:	Improvised from vocal
Instrument used:	Steinway acoustic
Recording method:	Pair of Rode NT5 mics with Zoom H4 as phantom power
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is my first serious attempt at improvising. When I was a young teenager, I fooled around with "Blue moon" and "Heart and Soul" but never to the extent of creating a complete song. Since improvising is new for me, entering it in a recital seems to be the natural place to reveal my effort. I hope you enjoy. WHISTLING AWAY THE DARK From "Darling Lili" (Johnny Mercer / Henry Mancini) Often I think this sad old world is whistling in the dark. Just like a child, who, late from school walks bravely Home through the park. To keep their spirits soaring and keep the night at bay. Neither quite knowing which way they are going, they sing The shadows away, Often I think my poor old heart has given up for good. And then I see a brand new face, I glimpse some new Neighborhood. So walk me back home, my darling, tell me dreams really come true. Whistling... whistling... here in the dark with you. Often I think my poor old heart has given up for good. And then I see a brand new face, I glimpse some new Neighborhood. So walk me back home, my darling, tell me dreams really come true. Whistling... whistling... here in the dark with you.

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Performer's name:	LisztAddict [/b]
From:	Florida, USA
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Prelude Op 28 No 13
Composer:	Chopin
Duration:	03:18
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	Pramberger JP-208
Recording method:	Zoom H4
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I had rice, tofu, beef, celery, carrot, onion, and tomato sauce for lunch.

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Performer's name:	Laura D [/b]
From:	Pennsylvania
Experience:	3 1/2 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Tarantella
Composer:	Albert Pieczonka
Duration:	02:35
Source of music:	Recital Winners Volume 1, compiled by Carole L. Bigler and Valery Lloyd-Watts, performed from memory
Instrument used:	my teacher’s Mason & Hamlin BB
Recording method:	Zoom H4 placed behind my right shoulder
Critical feedback wanted:	No
Additional info:	This piece is the absolute most fun to play of any I have learned. Flying fingers all the way through, gigantic 4-octave scale prestissimo at the end, it is great! It is so fun to play fast. And it is really impressive to watch somebody play it. I first saw this piece performed by one of my teacher’s better middle-school students (perfectly, by the way). Last fall I asked my teacher if I could learn it, because it looked like fun. She hmmmed a while and said “the middle section is really hard” but she let me do it. The first assignment was to learn just the melody (first note of each triplet) of the middle section, which needs to be brought out. There are tricky rhythms, right hand octave jumps back and forth at high speed (at 0:18-0:35 and 1:44-2:01), lots of dynamic contrast, and plenty of other fun stuff. I learned this piece for my Guild audition in May. It was probably the hardest of the 10 pieces I did, and I know it needs to be better. My teacher says I need another year of familiarity with it. I recorded all my pieces soon after the audition, and just now listened to the recording. I was surprised at how good it actually sounds. I know there are sloppy spots and a couple of big memory problems in this recording, and of course I messed up the end of the big scale, but I am pleased at how most of it sounds. So here you go—sort of premature but I hope you enjoy it.

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Performer's name:	Mr Super-hunky [/b]
From:	Arizona
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Experience:	4 years, 3 mos.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Imaginations
Composer:	Mr super-hunky
Duration:	05:28
Source of music:	Original composition
Instrument used:	Roland KR-7
Recording method:	Direct to pc
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Ok, after talking about the melodies in my head for years now, I finally, for the very first time composed a 100% all original composition to give you a *sneek peek* at what is inside my wacky brain. While this is not a technically demanding piece, there are a few tricky sections that took me a while to get down; especially the 10 note spreads throughout the piece. I did everything possible when composing this piece to represent the major musical influences of the composers/artists I follow. You will hear many 10 note spreads throughout the piece such as used in some of David Lanzs scores. (Cristoforis dream). You will hear numerous minor note progressions like Ludovico Einaudi does as well as hearing a musical journey with many different stages and different melodies/ meanings such as done by Nobuo Uematsu in his final Fantasy piano collections. I wanted this piece to sound like a musical journey that could even be used as a movie soundtrack in places in which the melodies would follow along with the story line. I am only scratching the surface with trying to get these thoughts/melodies in my mind transferred onto the keys forming a complete piece. With practice and more time, I hope to continue with these original compositions as it was so much fun to do as well as extremelly rewarding when the piece is finally finished. I really DO love doing this!.

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Performer's name:	Riddler (Ed) [/b]
From:	Florida
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Experience:	Two or three years of lessons as a kid; two years of jazz lessons as an adult; and a lifetime of noodling and playing by ear.
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://hometown.aol.com/riddlereader/index.html
Title of piece:	I Remember Clifford
Composer:	Benny Golson
Duration:	02:41
Source of music:	Lead sheet
Instrument used:	Yamaha P-120
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	A beautiful melody - haunting is not too strong a word - written in honor of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown.

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Performer's name:	John Frank [/b]
From:	Harrisburg, PA
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Experience:	2 3/4 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhbdHJyMmyk
Title of piece:	Etude, Op.10, No.3 (Theme)
Composer:	Frederic Chopin (adapted by Palmer, Manus & Lethco)
Duration:	02:14
Source of music:	Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course, Level 2
Instrument used:	Yamaha Clavinova CVP-301 (Digital Piano)
Recording method:	Digital to PC (via Presonus 1394 interface to Cubase LE recording software)
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	A shortened and simplified, but still very nicely arranged, version of one of the most beautiful of all classical works - probably the best of a number of excellent study pieces in Alfred 2 - the theme from the Etude was used as the basis for the popular song "No Other Love", a big hit in 1950 for singer Jo Stafford, a very talented lady with a lovely "smokey" alto - at the risk of distracting from my own recorded performance I think you'll enjoy hearing her simple, but elegant, rendition of this absolutely gorgeous adaptation of a classical masterpiece into a beautiful popular song, one with surprisingly sophisticated lyrics to match Chopin's wonderful melody - to do so please click on the YouTube link I provided above - very sadly, they don't write, or sing, songs like this anymore - hope you enjoy both of our versions, and thanks for listening! Regards, JF

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Performer's name:	True Beginner [/b]
From:	Virginia, US
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Experience:	Six months (since Feb 08)
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Les Fleurs Sauvages ( Wild Flowers )
Composer:	Paul De Senneville & Olivier Toussaint
Duration:	04:03
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Casio Privia PX
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	In my last recital I said this was one of my favorite piece along with Couleur Tendress. So here it is.

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Performer's name:	laValse [/b]
From:	Mumbles, Wales, UK
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Experience:	~8.
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://lavalse.eu
Title of piece:	Prelude Op 40 #3
Composer:	Liadov
Duration:	01:08
Source of music:	Sheet music .
Instrument used:	Yamaha U1.
Recording method:	Edirol R09, Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I have posted this in a piano bar previously. Sorry about that but my recial piece is not ready - sailing/summer/etc... Liadov was a Russian composer and a contemporary (but older) of Scriabin's...

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Performer's name:	Peyton [/b]
From:	Maine
Experience:	on and off 40 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://www.peytonart.com
Title of piece:	A House at the End of the World
Composer:	Peyton Higgison
Duration:	03:53
Source of music:	My own composition
Instrument used:	Young Chang acoustic grand
Recording method:	Metro
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is a song inspired by a recent painting I did. I sang and played together but did one additional track of harmony. Unfortunately there is a little clipping in the recording. Here are the lyrics. If I could have but one place to live a house at the end of the world. And if I could have but one heart to give that would be to you sweet girl. And when all the world’s in darkness but for one small patch of blue. That’s where I shall build my house and live with the love of you. If I could have but one sound to hear a sigh at the end of time. If I could share but just one dream that would be yours with mine. And in the house of sighs and dreams under that small patch of blue at the end of the world when all has been said I will dream in silence with you.

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Performer's name:	Ted Stanion [/b]
From:	Portland, Oregon
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Experience:	Several years of weekly sight reading lessons as a child. Thirty year hiatus. Three and a half as an adult.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	La fille aux cheveux de lin
Composer:	Claude Debussy
Duration:	02:33
Source of music:	Melodious Masterpieces, Book 3 edited by Jane Magrath.
Instrument used:	Samick-made Kohler and Campbell vertical.
Recording method:	Zoom H4 + Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This was a 'go-for-broke' recording made just hours before we left for Orcas Island. I just started playing and tried to concentrate on the music without thinking about my mistakes. What it lacks in technical merit, I hope it makes up for in musicality. We skipped lunch to go tide-pooling.

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Performer's name:	b528nf7 - Bill Moore [/b]
From:	N. Potomac, Maryland
Experience:	5 years experience - first 3 casual, last 2 pretty intense.
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBPWfHeCaP8
Title of piece:	Piano Bar Theme
Composer:	Henson/Pottle
Duration:	01:30
Source of music:	Derived from fake book score.
Instrument used:	Yamaha Clavinova CLP 150
Recording method:	Digital camera to youtube and converted to MP3.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece is an homage to the brave men and women who selflessly entertain the masses monthly in the Adult Beginners Forum Piano Bar.

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Performer's name:	Schubertian [/b]
From:	Boston (originally) / Dallas (now)
Experience:	1.5 years as adult
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	J S Bach - Prelude & Fugue #15 in G Major; WTC II
Composer:	J S Bach
Duration:	03:59
Source of music:	Baerenreiter; Neue Bach Ausgabe
Instrument used:	Estonia 190
Recording method:	Zoom H2/audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Jinbo [/b]
Experience:	Lessons from 1994-1998 as adult, restarted lessons a year ago
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Moment Musicaux No. 3 in F Minor
Composer:	Franz Schubert
Duration:	01:46
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Yamaha C-113 upright
Recording method:	Mobile phone
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I haven't played this to my teacher; all faults are my own...

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Performer's name:	dannylux/Mel [/b]
From:	Connecticut
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Experience:	Two and a half years. Lots as a kid.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Kalinnikov Moderato in e flat minor
Composer:	Vasliy Kalinnikov
Duration:	04:08
Source of music:	Sheet music. PM me for a copy.
Instrument used:	Yamaha P140
Recording method:	Line out to computer line in, Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	In his short, difficult life, Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) wrote only seven pieces for the piano. His Moderato in e flat minor is a dark, moody, lovely piece. The chief difficulty with this piece is that the melody is played by the fifth finger of the right hand, while the other fingers of the right hand play the accompaniment. This is a great piece for teaching the fingers to sing and to learn to play the spaces between the notes, where the very soul of the music lies. Hope you like it.

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Performer's name:	bluekeys [/b]
From:	Virginia, USA
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Experience:	1 Year 11 Months
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://bluekeys-diary.blogspot.com/
Title of piece:	Mariage D'amour
Composer:	Senneville and Toussaint
Duration:	03:40
Source of music:	Sheet Music
Instrument used:	Yamaha YDP 223
Recording method:	Midi out, rendered to MP3 in Reaper using TruePianos VST.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	What can I say? My teacher digs this super romantic crap, so I've got a mess of it in my rep. Next time I'll shoot for something with a little edge to it.

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Performer's name:	Casyopea [/b]
From:	Spain
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Experience:	Eight months
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7ow_JEKfk
Home page link:	http://www.youtube.com/user/casyopea1977
Title of piece:	Prelude in C Major BWV 846 (from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)
Composer:	Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration:	02:20
Source of music:	http://www.free-scores.com/partitions_telecharger.php?partition=218
Instrument used:	Yamaha P-140
Recording method:	digital to PC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I fell in love with this Prelude the very first time I listened to it! One day I hope I'll be able to play the Fugue that comes after... *dreamy* Awww! The paella I just ate for lunch was so great!

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Performer's name:	rustyfingers [/b]
From:	Massachusetts
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Experience:	7 years as a child 3 year as an adult
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Root Beer Rag
Composer:	Billy Joel
Duration:	03:24
Source of music:	Sheet music (Piano solo, ATV Music, EMI Music Publishing, Hal Leanard)
Instrument used:	Charles Walter 1520, PianoDisc 128 Bright Acoustic Piano Output
Recording method:	Zoom H4, acoustic recording (not line out, equalized in Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	My husband will be sorry he ever requested this one... Grilled cheese for lunch

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Performer's name:	Euan Morrison [/b]
From:	Scotland
Experience:	2 yrs, 10 months
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Piano Ballet
Composer:	Eluvium
Duration:	03:32
Source of music:	Transcription (no sheet music available to purchase). If that's illegal, apologies to the artist
Instrument used:	Yamaha ydp113
Recording method:	Recorded into Anvil, soundfont added using Synthfont, then final amplification/reverb in Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I found this piece by accident as I was clicking around the Amazon website! [credit to Mats Helgesson for creating the Maestro soundfont)

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Performer's name:	DragonPianoPlayer [/b]
From:	Colorado
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Experience:	2 years + about 5 as a kid
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	The Mechanical Doll
Composer:	Dmitri Shostakovich
Duration:	01:18
Source of music:	Sheet Music (Keith Snell: Piano Repertoire Romantic & 20th Century Level Three)
Instrument used:	Casio PX310
Recording method:	Reaper with TruePianos 1.4 plug in using new Amber Module
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Euphonatrix [/b]
From:	Germany
Experience:	4 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Sonatina in F, WoO, Anh. 5, No. 2
Composer:	Ludwig van Beethoven
Duration:	05:08
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	rebuilt Weihenmeyer & Co. upright (ca. 1921-1925)
Recording method:	one Shure PG 81 condenser mic into Sony minidisc recorder into computer using Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I just love Beethoven and I love this piece. It tells many stories and has both joyful/mischievous and melancholy moments. Besides, it shows that Beethoven's music is not always grave as a lot of people seem to assume. This is just one example that he was funny and playful as well and an excellent pianist, too. Lunch.... since I returned from my holiday today, I had a ciabatta sandwich with mozzarella, tomato and basil at the airport and some pasta with red pesto when I finally was home.

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Performer's name:	AdagioM (Michele) [/b]
From:	Oregon
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Experience:	10 years in October
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://pdxknitterati.com
Title of piece:	Adagio from Sonata No. 48, Hob. XVI/35
Composer:	Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration:	06:12
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	Weinbach 170 grand
Recording method:	Audacity, mono mic hanging from prop stick
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I love this piece. I first learned it in 2004, and keep coming back to it. It feels like it's mine, finally; it's very comfortable. I'm finding that my current recording setup doesn't get the highest notes at volume. Maybe it's time for a new recording setup?

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Performer's name:	mlr1899 [/b]
Experience:	25 years (mostly) off and on
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Sensation
Composer:	Joseph Lamb
Duration:	02:58
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Samick upright
Recording method:	Edirol R-09 digital recorder
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I gave myself tendonitis in my left elbow learning this piece and had to give it a rest for awhile. Giving it another try. So far, so good. Incidently, I played piano in church one Sunday this summer. I had never done it before. In part, it was the kind feedback I got from the last two recitals that encouraged me to go through with it when I got the opportunity. So, thanks to you all, and I'm looking forward to hearing some more great music.

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Performer's name:	Gary001 [/b]
From:	UK
Experience:	5 Months - Plus a couple of lessons as a child many years ago. Wish I'd never stopped.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Theme in F Major
Composer:	Unknown - BWV Anh. 131
Duration:	01:01
Source of music:	Sheet Music from Succeeding with the Masters, Baroque Era, Vol 1, compiled and edited by Helen Marlais.
Instrument used:	Casio Privia PX-720
Recording method:	Headphone output to iRiver iHP-140
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	rocky [/b]
From:	Louisville, KY
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Experience:	Between 3 and 4 years - self taught
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Evacuee
Composer:	Music by Enya & NIcky Ryan
Duration:	02:06
Source of music:	Sheet Music
Instrument used:	Casio PX-100
Recording method:	Digital to PC, audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	And yet another simple little piece (because after more than 3 years that's where I'm still at) I had a "brilliant" recording finished ( LOL to self) and somehow when I went to transfer it to the PC I deleted it!!! So I sat down, hit record, played one time and this is the result.

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Performer's name:	Serge88 [/b]
From:	Montreal
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Experience:	7
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu284eoaG7k&fmt=18
Title of piece:	The Long And Winding Road
Composer:	Lennon/McCartney
Duration:	03:30
Source of music:	www.mwmtv.co.uk
Instrument used:	Digital Piano Roland FP-7
Recording method:	Digital Piano to PC to iMac
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	And don't forget to watch my video.

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Performer's name:	angelojf [/b]
From:	PA
Experience:	Not Long Enough
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	"Here Comes the Sun"
Composer:	George Harrison
Duration:	02:21
Source of music:	Some sheet music and some ear
Instrument used:	Yamaha YDP-113
Recording method:	Recorded directly from piano to digital voice recorder, then to computer
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I've been playing this for awhile, but just added the middle bit. Thanks for listening.

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Performer's name:	kawaigirl1 [/b]
From:	Toronto
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Experience:	10 yrs as a child. Restarted as an adult since Dec '05
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Leo
Composer:	Ludovico Einaudi
Duration:	04:13
Source of music:	Einaudi's Una Mattina Piano Book
Instrument used:	Roland RD300SX
Recording method:	Digital to PC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Orez Eno [/b]
From:	New England
Experience:	9 months
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Two Timing, Op.134 No.6
Composer:	Heinrich Lichner
Duration:	03:23
Source of music:	US School of Music Home Study (1945), Lesson 11 http://www.box.net/shared/npegjs60c0
Instrument used:	Yamaha CLP-230
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece seems very repetitive, that I play it as it is written in the lesson.

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Performer's name:	Undone (Jim) [/b]
From:	Connecticut, USA
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Experience:	Seven and one-half months as an adult re-beginner.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Night Song
Composer:	Unknown
Duration:	02:28
Source of music:	Alfred’s Adult All-In-One Book 2
Instrument used:	Yamaha YPG-625
Recording method:	Line out to mini-disk to PC.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I had a hard time deciding which of two pieces to submit for this recital. I finally chose this piece because my interpretation of it is quite different from the other versions of it I’ve found posted here. This version just feels more “Nocturne-ish” to me.

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Performer's name:	AnthonyB [/b]
From:	Center City, MN
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Experience:	Started Christmas '07. Self teaching. Currently still in Alfred's book One.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	I due fiumi
Composer:	Ludovico Einaudi
Duration:	04:32
Source of music:	The Best of Ludovico Einaudi
Instrument used:	Roland FP-7
Recording method:	Line out to Built in PC Motherboard sound
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	2nd Einaudi piece I learned after learning Limbo. First piece with both hands really working hard and moving around too. Hands aren't always in perfect time with each other but that will come with more and more practice.

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Performer's name:	Strat [/b]
Experience:	13 months.
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://www.fenderplayersforum.com
Title of piece:	Wind Crest (from Final Fantasy X-2)
Composer:	Takahito Eguchi & Noriko Matsueda
Duration:	02:53
Source of music:	Sheet music.
Instrument used:	Yamaha DGX-620 (a.k.a. YDP-625).
Recording method:	Digital piano to PC using Pianoteq.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	It's the piece that made me decide to start playing.

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Performer's name:	jotur - Cathy Turner [/b]
From:	Santa Fe, New Mexico
Experience:	2 years of lessons 47 years ago, 30-odd years off, playing for dancing since 1995.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	(This is Not Your Mother's) Black and White Rag
Composer:	(With Apologies to) George Botsford
Duration:	03:54
Source of music:	Fiddler's Fake Book
Instrument used:	Casio PX-100
Recording method:	digital to PC thru audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	No
Additional info:	Oh, lunch! Maybe that's the problem! No lunch! I've been playing this for several years. I first heard rags through the Western swing/old-time traditions, so they're not played straight in my recollection. I found this in a fiddle/lead sheet book, so I had to make up my own bass, which took several months. Since most of the rags I had played were Joplin, my bass has Joplin influences. Later I downloaded the original Botsford Black and White from the Lester Levy Collection. This version bears a family resemblance to that one , and I like my bass better . I will have to admit this is the first time I've been disappointed in my recital submission, but there's just been too much going on at work. Oh well, as we say I am really looking forward to the other rags submitted for this recital - ragtime forever!

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Performer's name:	Eighty8 [/b]
From:	Dayton, OH, US
Experience:	Lost track of years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Letter From Home
Composer:	Pat Metheny
Duration:	02:05
Source of music:	Countless viewings of the youtube video and other youtube covers of it. See YouTube video:[Pat Metheny on soprano guitar, Lyle Mays on piano] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5-pBkwyUxc
Instrument used:	Alesis QS8 digital keyboard
Recording method:	Digital keyboard to PC, Goldwave to set level and convert to mp3.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	The album "Letter From Home" won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1990 for the Pat Metheny Group.

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Performer's name:	epf [/b]
From:	California
Avatar:
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Music of the Night
Composer:	Andrew Lloyd Webber
Duration:	03:51
Source of music:	Combination of sheet music and my own arrangement.
Instrument used:	Privia PX-800
Recording method:	Direct to Zoom H4 and then Audacity to equalize and convert to MP3
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Copper [/b]
From:	Virginia
Avatar:
Experience:	3
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Stardust
Composer:	Hoagy Carmichael
Duration:	02:46
Source of music:	Scott the Piano Guy Favorite Piano Fake Book
Instrument used:	Yamaha P-250
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	A popular Hoagy Carmichael tune played over the years by a wide variety of artists in a wide variety of styles. Versions of Stardust been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and the Dominoes, George Benson, and Copper.

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Performer's name:	Pevawi / Peter [/b]
From:	The Netherlands
Avatar:
Experience:	1 year of piano, 2 years organ (1 year combined)
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Für Elise
Composer:	Ludwig van Beethoven
Duration:	03:43
Source of music:	Sheet music (Book 3 Alfreds Adult method in the back)
Instrument used:	Kawai K6
Recording method:	Zoom H4, converted with Soundbooth
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Somehow I can play it better in front of people than I can play it alone with the red dot turned on (turned off I play it way better )... anyway I'm reasonable satisfied. Lunch... good idea..

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Performer's name:	gerg aka Greg [/b]
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Nocturne Op. 37 No. 2
Composer:	Frederic Chopin
Duration:	05:12
Source of music:	Schirmer's Vol. 39
Instrument used:	1893 Knabe 6'2
Recording method:	Conventional home studio setup to PC-based DAC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is the cleanest take I can get right now. It is not perfect as I've been out of practice for too long, but is the best I have to offer. I have not revisited the score in quite some time; anything missed (apart from standard amateur artifacts/mistakes), critical feedback welcomed. I hope you enjoy this piece. It has long, long been one of my favorites. I share it as a gift of love through song as my own meager contribution to Recital #11.

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Performer's name:	Fillanzea (Emily) [/b]
From:	Brooklyn, NY
Experience:	3 years as a child, on and off since then (mostly off).
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Sunburst Waltz
Duration:	00:38
Source of music:	Faber & Faber Piano Adventures, level 2B Performance Book
Instrument used:	Yamaha P85 digital piano
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	RobM [/b]
From:	UK
Avatar:
Experience:	Roughly 11 months of actual experience + many years of 'playing about' with a keyboard.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Suteki Da Ne
Composer:	Nobuo Uematsu
Duration:	03:49
Source of music:	Sheet Music - FFX Piano Collections
Instrument used:	Roland RD-300SX
Recording method:	Recorded straight into Adobe Audition (more advanced program than Audacity) in a single take.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I found this very tricky to learn at first because its almost entirely made up of triplets in the left hand, but it proved to be a great practice in developing this rhythm. A few errors have slipped in to this recording and the timing is off in several places, but on the whole I'm quite pleased as I managed to record it in a single take (the 3rd attempt, due to Audacity crashing) and I only finished learning it a short while ago. With a little more time I'm sure I can polish it up to more of a performance standard, but this will have to do for this recital. For lunch, I had a pasty.

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Performer's name:	tekkie [/b]
From:	Silicon Valley, CA
Experience:	2 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Opus #18
Composer:	Dustin O'Halloran
Duration:	02:38
Source of music:	Dustin O'Halloran Piano Solos Song Book
Instrument used:	Yamaha CP33
Recording method:	digital to PC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	PianoN00b (Yang) [/b]
From:	California
Experience:	1 year + 20 days (estimated)
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://youtube.com/jetkid03
Title of piece:	Midnight Rhapsody
Composer:	Melody Bober
Duration:	02:32
Source of music:	Friend gave me the music sheets.
Instrument used:	Keyboard Kawaii CA51
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	The first piece that I heard from the girl that I love...

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Performer's name:	joangolfing [/b]
Experience:	6 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Hymn to Joy
Composer:	Beethoven, Piano arr. by Jeanne Cotter
Duration:	06:11
Source of music:	G.I.A. Publications, After The Rain: Music for Solo Piano, Jeanne Cotter
Instrument used:	Roland FP-4
Recording method:	Akoustik Piano's Steinway Hamburg D Wave to MP3 using Musicmatch Jukebox Audacity (normalized)
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Paul Cast [/b]
From:	New England
Experience:	3
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Sonatina Op.36 No.1 Allegro, Andente, Vivace
Composer:	Muzio Clementi
Duration:	03:51
Source of music:	Sonatina Album for the Piano, Alfred Masterwork Edition
Instrument used:	Yamaha Clavinova CLP-230
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I understand this is a practice piece, not a performance piece. Still, for me it represents one step in the long journey of learning piano, and a critical evaluation by members of Piano World would be appreciated. Personally I don't think I play it very smoothly, especially the third movement, but in the recording I am trying to play as fast as I accurately can.

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Performer's name:	mahlzeit [/b]
From:	Breda, The Netherlands
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Experience:	About 3 years.
Direct music link:	click to download
Home page link:	http://www.originalsolopiano.com
Title of piece:	Diminished
Composer:	myself
Duration:	02:16
Source of music:	I was just playing around with diminished chords.
Instrument used:	A fancy Yamaha grand. Don't know the model.
Recording method:	iPhone with QuickVoice recording software.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Last weekend while on vacation we found a piano store, so I just had to play the fanciest grand they had. I recorded it on my brand new iPhone. This is the very first thing I played after I sat down. There was more, but the rest of the recording had too much talking in it so I kept only this part.

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Performer's name:	Seaside_Lee [/b]
From:	Blackpool, England
Experience:	4 years 10 months
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	How Deep Is Your Love
Composer:	The Bee Gees?
Duration:	05:51
Source of music:	Play by ear
Instrument used:	Casio PX 320
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Couldn't decide what to submit and decided to record some things just to see what I could come up with?, after a while I eventually started playing around with this song and ended up with about 6 minutes of "fooling around" (for y'all to suffer) - and as its extra long I'm sure Monica will love it so, seeing as she loves the Heebeegeebees so much! LOL

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Performer's name:	TX-Dennis (Dennis Turner) [/b]
From:	Texas
Avatar:
Experience:	Over 40 years on and off, but more off than on.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	In The Still of the Night
Composer:	Cole Porter
Duration:	03:32
Source of music:	Sheet music with some improv
Instrument used:	Kawai GE-30 (slightly out of tune)
Recording method:	Recorded with Zoom and normalized with Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I'm still not really happy with this recording, but time is growing short . . .

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Performer's name:	Piano*Dad [/b]
From:	Virginia
Avatar:
Experience:	I played when I was a kid, and came back when I had a kid.
Direct music link:	click to download
Video link:	http://www.youtube.com/user/dhfeld
Home page link:	http://dhfeld.people.wm.edu/
Title of piece:	La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Composer:	Claude Debussy
Duration:	02:43
Source of music:	Debussy Preludes, Schirmer edition
Instrument used:	Grotrian 192
Recording method:	Zoom H4
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is one take, so there are things I might want to change or improve.

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Performer's name:	GregF [/b]
Experience:	Couple years in elementary school. 18 months back at it after 30 year break.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Pastorale Op.100, No. 3
Composer:	Johann Burgmuller
Duration:	01:46
Source of music:	Sheet Music
Instrument used:	Yamaha Digital: YPG-625
Recording method:	Ipod using Micromemo attachment
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece is in a book put out by Alfred publishing called Burgmuller, Czerny and Hanon - 32 Piano Studies Selected for Technique and Musicality. Basically, you work on some Czerny & Hanon excercises that lead to a Burgmuller piece employing some of those techniques. I really enjoy it and it is supplmenting my Alfred Adult Book 2, which is not the most exciting in the world. Anyway, I hope the variations in dynamics came through. I promise I really played this well for my teacher this past week, but the red dot was battling tough this time. Thanks. GregF

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Performer's name:	Mistaya (Caroline) [/b]
From:	Alberta
Experience:	accordion and then piano as a teen - taking lessons again for 20 months.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Notturno op.54 no.4
Composer:	Edvard Grieg
Duration:	04:19
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	Estonia 168
Recording method:	Zoom H4
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I know you've all heard this piece many times - but it's all I've got ready - and I seem to be learning the same pieces as Ted S. I did play this at a live recital, and managed to get through it with only one wobble - and I was pretty pleased - low expectations and all that. There is hope. I think these recitals have made a difference to reducing performance anxiety for me.

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Performer's name:	IPIBAHN (Sandy) [/b]
From:	Canada
Experience:	7 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Jazz Hymn
Composer:	Christopher Norton
Duration:	01:28
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Roland Digital
Recording method:	Digital to PC
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	It's been a sad summer for me with my dog passing so I've found myself playing mostly slow mellow pieces. This was my favourite.

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Performer's name:	DeepElem (aka Buck) [/b]
Experience:	2 years 2 months
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Cinema Paradiso
Composer:	Ennio Morricone
Duration:	01:31
Source of music:	Leadsheet
Instrument used:	Yamaha S90ES
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I love the sound and feel of this song. My version is a bit short. I've tried many variations but nothing really strikes me like just sticking to the main theme and that is a fairly brief theme. However with the huge amount of wonderful music we get in these recitals, I'm not worried about this being a bit short.

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Performer's name:	Greywullf [/b]
Experience:	20 yrs, 6 mo.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	No. 3 Canzone Amorosa
Composer:	Ethelbert Nevin
Duration:	02:28
Source of music:	Sheet Music: Op. 25 Un Giorno in Venezia by Ethelbert Nevin Alba Gondolieri Canzone Amorosa[/b] Buona Notte C 1898 John Church Company Op 25. A Day in Venice Dawn Gondoliers Venetian Love Song[/b] Good Night
Instrument used:	1910 Chickering Grand 6'4"
Recording method:	Zoom H4, Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	Jeff (Opus45) [/b]
From:	North Carolina, USA
Experience:	Some noodling as a kid (many years ago) plus a few years of off & on playing around with different kinds of piano music as an adult
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Barcarolle (June, from the Seasons)
Composer:	Tchaikovsky
Duration:	04:38
Source of music:	memorized from sheet music
Instrument used:	Yamaha CLP175
Recording method:	Digital to PC & Synthfont
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece is definitely a work in progress for me. I just recently memorized the notes and haven't spent much time on polishing. Unless I'm able to sumbit a better recording before the recital deadline, this recording contains a few wrong notes and a couple places where I had to stop myself & start over. It is what it is...my playing with flaws & all. For better or for worse, it has always been my habit to try to learn to play pieces that are more technically advanced than my capabilities. An unconventional approach, for sure.

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Performer's name:	polostrings [/b]
From:	Hawaii
Avatar:
Experience:	2 yrs as child, lessons for 7 months biweekly
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Waiting for Arrival
Composer:	polostrings
Duration:	01:51
Source of music:	polostrings original
Instrument used:	Kawai GM 10-K
Recording method:	Zoom H2
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece is inspired by my brother who is expecting his first child, and my sister who is adopting her first child. Both processes are very similar. They both entail excitement, patience, and fear. This piece is about the patience, 9 months for the birth, and who knows how long for the adoption. It takes me back to the birth of my long awaited son, whom we seemed to wait our whole lives for. He is the one who makes us a family.

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Performer's name:	Kawai, Hi [/b]
Experience:	Years ago took lessons, then away for awhile, now back to lessons about 7 months.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Raindrop Prelude
Composer:	Chopin - Schaum
Duration:	03:16
Source of music:	Book of Chopin pieces modified by Schaum (I know, it's embarrassing)
Instrument used:	Kawai G 10
Recording method:	Zoom H2
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I heard the real Raindrop Prelude played in a Halo trailer on Youtube and forgot how much I liked this piece. I decide to tackle an easier version first. The subtleties and dynamics of this piece are still way beyond me, even in an easy piece. One day.....

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Performer's name:	Mike White [/b]
From:	90 miles West of New Orleans
Experience:	lifetime by ear, self-teaching since around 2005?
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Scherzino Mexicano
Composer:	Manuel Ponce
Duration:	02:46
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	Yamaha P-80
Recording method:	audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is another one of those pieces that I really liked and decided to learn to play. My inspiration was a recording by John Williams on guitar.

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Performer's name:	Rosanna [/b]
From:	San Francisco area
Avatar:
Experience:	10 years of classical lesson as a kid. 30 years later, restarted in July 08. Currently learning with PianoMagic (started Feb. 08.)
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Shanghai Tan
Composer:	Koo Ga Fei (aka Joseph Koo)
Duration:	02:21
Source of music:	play-by-ear
Instrument used:	Kawai CE200 digital.
Recording method:	Phone-out of digital to line-in of laptop. Recorded with Mp3 Wave Editor freeware.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This is another one of my Canto-pop songs. "Shanghai Tan" is commonly known as "the Bund" in English. ("Tan" means beach or strand - you thought it's the latest Olympic suntan fashion, eh? ) It's the famous river promenade in Shanghai. The song was written for a prime time TV soap opera of the same name. It was produced in Hong Kong in 1980 and the song has become a "classic". The show was set in the 1920s during the fading glory days of Shanghai. It's about passion, betrayal, crime, decadence - the "stuff" of soap opera. As an aside, Chow Yun Fat of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" fame starred in the show. I don't think he'd acquired international fame at that time. This is the first time I really wish my digital (or may be the computer sound card) can capture and/or produce a better sound. The timbre of the recording is very tin-ny, and cannot express the drama that I was hoping for. Finally, I am tempted to thank those who nudged me about submitting to this recital. You know who you *all* are! But on second thought, I don't want to encourage such behavior in the future, so I am withholding my thanks after all! I had Palak Paneer (Indian) for lunch. Yummy.

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Performer's name:	ddh - Daniel [/b]
From:	Abitibi
Avatar:
Experience:	22 months
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Londonderry Air
Composer:	Traditionnal Irish collected by Jane Ross
Duration:	02:03
Source of music:	Sheet music with liberties taken ...
Instrument used:	Yamaha CVP-307
Recording method:	Piano to Mac, using Sound Studio.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Plan "C" Hope You like it.

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Performer's name:	YD (Yuri) [/b]
From:	San Francisco Bay Area
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Experience:	Umpteen
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Mozart, Sonata K545, Andante
Composer:	Mozart
Duration:	04:56
Source of music:	sheet music
Instrument used:	Kawai Mp8
Recording method:	Direct to PC via EMU 0202 interface
Critical feedback wanted:	No
Additional info:	This is what happens if you procrastinate till the last minute. Since I didn't have any recital piece ready I decided that if I just play something easy, it'll be OK. Well, it's all wrong. My new laptop had difficulty connecting to the interface, there was a ground loop somewhere, one of the channels connectors broke (EMU0202 interface has XLR connector on one channel - that's the one that broke, and RCA on another, weird, isn't it?) - so I had to record mono; to add insult to injury, when I listened to what I recorded, I heard that my tempo floated from andante to allegretto and back :-( Now, that's new: consider it a "romanticized Mozart" or "rubatized Mozart." Still, this is a lovely easy sonata, one of the best proofs of Mozart's genius.

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Performer's name:	Manndrew [/b]
From:	Framingham, Massachusetts
Experience:	Let's just say I remember when a Snickers was 5 cents.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Crazy
Composer:	Willie Nelson
Duration:	03:13
Source of music:	Improvised from sheet music
Instrument used:	Roland FP-7 using Grand Piano 2 setting.
Recording method:	Zoom H4 and Audacity.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I had a rough time deciding on the right tempo for this song. I really wanted to play it slow and smooth, but I think I got carried away like I so often do and it started to take off on me.

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Performer's name:	Ozor Mox [/b]
From:	England
Experience:	Just under five years.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Waltz in D flat major (Petit Chien/Minute Waltz)
Composer:	Chopin
Duration:	01:55
Source of music:	Sheet music.
Instrument used:	A MIDI piano/keyboard called a Fatar somethingorother.
Recording method:	MIDI to a PC with Steinway grand piano samples.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	I recorded this at a recording studio session that was bought for me as a birthday present. It was very fancy and high-tech! I know this recording isn't perfect. The main problem with this piece is that I do not play very evenly at high speeds and so it loses its waltz feel. I'd appreciate any tips on how I might be able to improve this. It is also well over one minute long!

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Performer's name:	Hisalone (Joel) [/b]
Experience:	Not quite 1 year since adult. (Sporadically as a child.)
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Hungarian Dance No. 5
Composer:	Johannes Brahms
Duration:	02:56
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Casio PX200
Recording method:	Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	This piece, though easy to learn and commit to memory, has been the most technical piece I have tried. It is still not quite where I want it as far as accuracy and the technique will come as I gain more experience. My teacher and I could not find a definitive original solo score (originally written for four hands) so I took some liberties and combined aspects I liked from each of the scores I did find to come up with a few mostly unnoticeable variations. I know it's not a perfect performance and some parts are a bit choppy, but my goal since coming aboard here has become to submit for each recital. This was especially difficult since the last day to submit has been my first day off work for most of the two week submission period. Enjoy.

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Performer's name:	EJR [/b]
From:	Bristol, UK
Experience:	Several years as a kid, 30 months as an adult
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Everyday
Composer:	Carly Comando
Duration:	06:13
Source of music:	Sheet music from Carly
Instrument used:	Yamaha Clavinova CLP350 as a MIDI controller to Laptop running Modartt Pianoteq software emulator
Recording method:	Recorded in Pianoteq, exported as a wave, normalised and converted to MP3 by Audacity
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Heard the piece as played by MonicaK in recital#10 and just had to have a go!

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Performer's name:	Ovaltine [/b]
From:	California
Avatar:
Experience:	6 years
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Nocturne #2, Op.9 No.2
Composer:	Chopin
Duration:	04:27
Source of music:	World's Greatest Melodies for Piano, Hinson Ed.
Instrument used:	Estonia L190
Recording method:	Zoom H2, 10 inches above Estonia decal on soundboard. 44khz/16b WAV, Med Mic Gain, no ACG.
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Plan A was Bethena; not ready. Plan B was Bach Invention; sprained fingers curtailed practice time. So this is Plan C. I've played it for a while now, so I did this in only a few takes. Need to return the sprained finger to a splint and lay off piano for a few days!

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Performer's name:	Signal [/b]
From:	Royal Palm Beach, Fl
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Leave on the Siene
Composer:	David Lanz
Duration:	04:16
Source of music:	Songbook
Instrument used:	Kawai US-50
Recording method:	Zoom H2
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes

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Performer's name:	karaeloko [/b]
From:	Panama
Avatar:
Experience:	Self taught as a kid then on and off (mostly off) until I stopped playing in 2001. Then started playing again in 2006.
Direct music link:	click to download
Title of piece:	Träumerei
Composer:	Robert Schumann
Duration:	02:29
Source of music:	Sheet music
Instrument used:	Casio Privia PX-800
Recording method:	Digital to PC (bad cable = poor quality sound)
Critical feedback wanted:	Yes
Additional info:	Träumerei is a very beautiful piece which I learned to play a few months ago and decided to give it a try at recording it for the recital. Too bad my connecting cable is in bad shape and I couldn't get a quality sound out of the recording.