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Hi al-mahed, Peyton performed Mazurka 7/1 in the second Mazurkathon so if it's OK I'll put you down for 34/2. Nice to have you on board!

Ok Mary, no problem.

But, I didn't find this information in the link "http://www.chopinrecital.org/5301.html". It is suposed to contain all the recordings so far? Or there is another link to others events, like mazurkathon?

Could you post the link to the other events (if this is the case)? Perhaps I can find more options of works to chose (I don't have much options since I'm begginer :))

Thanks

I'd like to play Opus 70 #13 in D-flat. Thank you.

Andy

As far as I know you can find all the previous performances at www.ecital.net.

Elene

Hi Elene, this link redirects to "http://www.chopinrecital.org/index.html".

If you click any of the pictures you'll find the list I'm pasting here below. Is it the complete list?

thank you!

Chopin 200th Commemoration E-cital
E-cital date: 1 March 2010
Work Performer
Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb Major AnotherSchmoe
Concerto Op. 21 2nd Movement Chardonnay
Mazurka Op. 24 No. 1 in G Minor Maestro_007
Polonaise Op. 26 No. 2 in Eb Minor Maestro_007
Ballade Op. 38 in F Major LisztAddict
Polonaise Op. 40 No. 1 in A Major ab-ster
Polonaise Op. 40 No. 2 in C Minor Schubertian
Ballade Op. 47 in Ab Major gerg
Mazurka Op. 50 No. 1 in G Major Schubertian
Impromptu Op. 51 in Gb Major Carey
Ballade Op. 52 in F Minor doowlehc
Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1 in F Minor Piano Again
Mazurka Op. 56 No. 1 in B Major Schubertian
Mazurka Op. 56 No. 2 in C Major Schubertian
Barcarolle Op. 60 in F# Major heidiv
Song "Pierścień" Elene with Stephen Montoya
Song "Dumka" Elene
Song "Smutna rzeka" Elene with Stephen Montoya
Song "Nie ma czego trzeba" Elene


The Mazurkas
E-cital date: 22 February 2010
(Mazurkas, Part I, 22 February 2008)
(Mazurkas, Part II, 22 February 2009) Work Performer
Op. 7 No. 3 in F Minor Mati
Op. 7 No. 4 in Ab Major Mistaya
Op. 17 No. 4 in A Minor ab-ster
Op. 59 No. 2 in Ab Major Chardonnay




The Nocturnes
E-cital date: 17 October 2009 Work Performer
Op. 9 No. 1 in Bb Major Peyton
Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb Major [unavailable]
Op. 9 No. 3 in B Major timmyab
Op. 15 No. 1 in F Major [unavailable]
Op. 15 No. 2 in F# Major Ted.Stanion
Op. 15 No. 3 in G Minor [unavailable]
Op. 27 No. 1 in C# Minor Piano Again
Op. 27 No. 2 in Db Major Chardonnay
Op. 32 No. 1 in B Major Schubertian
Op. 32 No. 2 in Ab Major Akonow
Op. 37 No. 1 in G Minor Chopinet
Op. 37 No. 2 in G Major gerg
Op. 48 No. 1 in C Minor Jazzyprof
Op. 48 No. 2 in F# Minor Elene
Op. 55 No. 1 in F Minor [unavailable]
Op. 55 No. 2 in Eb Major Sotto Voce
Op. 62 No. 1 in B Major Carolyn227
Op. 62 No. 2 in E Major Chopin952
Op. 72 in E Minor Peyton
Op. Posth. C# Minor LisztAddict
Op. Posth. in C Minor Mati



Grandes Études, Op. 10, Op. 25, and Trois Nouvelles
E-cital date: 17 October 2008 Work Performer
Op. 10 No. 2 in A Minor Sotto Voce
Op. 10 No. 4 in C# Minor Sotto Voce
Op. 10 No. 5 in Gb Major Chopin952
Op. 10 No. 6 in Eb Minor Elene
Op. 10 No. 7 in C Major Sotto Voce
Op. 10 No. 9 in F Minor Piano*Son
Op. 10 No. 12 in C Minor Frycek
Op. 25 No. 1 in Ab Major Jazzyprof
Op. 25 No. 3 in F Major Alpha
Op. 25 No. 4 in A Minor LisztAddict
Op. 25 No. 6 in G# Minor gerg
Op. 25 No. 7 in C# Minor Piano Again
Op. 25 No. 8 in Db Major Phlebas
Op. 25 No. 9 in Gb Major Chopin952
Op. 25 No. 11 in A Minor LisztAddict
Op. 25 No. 12 in C Minor Yuri
Trois Nouvelles No. 1 in F Minor Elene
Trois Nouvelles No. 3 in Db Major Greywullf


The Preludes: Op. 28, Op. 45, and Posthumous
E-cital date: 17 October 2007 Work Performer
Op. 28 No. 1 in C Major Piano Again
Op. 28 No. 2 in A Minor Schubertian
Op. 28 No. 3 in G Major Peyton
Op. 28 No. 4 in E Minor Euan Morrison
Op. 28 No. 5 in D Major LisztAddict
Op. 28 No. 6 in B Minor Mistaya
Op. 28 No. 7 in A Major Bassio
Op. 28 No. 8 in F# Minor gerg
Op. 28 No. 9 in E Major Piano Again
Op. 28 No. 10 in C# Minor Playadom
Op. 28 No. 11 in B Major Ragnhild
Op. 28 No. 12 in G# Minor Playadom
Op. 28 No. 14 in Eb Minor Sotto Voce
Op. 28 No. 15 in Db Major NancyM333
Op. 28 No. 16 in Bb Minor Jazzyprof
Op. 28 No. 18 in F Minor gerg
Op. 28 No. 19 in Eb Major Theowne
Op. 28 No. 20 in C Minor Mike White
Op. 28 No. 21 in Bb Major Piano Again
Op. 28 No. 22 in G Minor Frycek
Op. 28 No. 23 in F Major Schubertian
Op. 28 No. 24 in D Minor LisztAddict
Posthumous in Ab Major Sotto Voce

al-mahed, if you look at the heading 'Mazurkas' you have listed above, you can see there are two links to two more Mazurka ecitals (parts I and II). I'm sorry if it isn't very clear!

Manndrew - have put you down for 70/3. So we now have:

Horowitzian: Nocturne Op 15 no 1in F major
AlisonWhittle: Berceuse, Op 57
Jazzyprof: Posthumous Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Frycek: Op 11 Larghetto
Rustyfingers: Mazurka Op 17 No 1 in B flat
LisztAddict: Polonaise in G sharp minor, Op Post

Al-mahed: Valse Op 34 no 2 in A minor
Maestro_007: Valse Op 64 no 2 in C sharp minor
Timmyab: Valse Op 69 no 1 in A flat major
Mati: Valse Op 69 no 2 in B minor
Mistaya: Valse Op 70 no 2 in F minor
Manndrew: Vals Op 70 no 3 in D flat
Ab-ster: Posth. Valse in E minor
Anotherschmoe: Valse in A minor, Op Post

Oh, now I see, thank you Mary, it wasn't clear where the link was tge first time.

cheers

I was thinking about what Mr SH said, and I thought of the week-long Chopin celebration in Warsaw. There were many people there played improv of Chopin pieces to the point you couldn't even recognize what exactly they were playing.

So I want to suggest that we have Mr SH to play the Prelude No 20 in C-minor as Chopin wrote it, then after that he can improvise to his taste. Having heard his playing in many ABF recitals, I think we would have some pleasant surprise.

I agree. So we look forward to your contribution, MR s-h! (Special dispensation - no other improvisations please - we don't want our dear Chopin spinning in Pere Lachaise).

Great I'm in! Put me on the list. I knew if I worked my charm a little Mary-Rose would let me in. (She's sweet on me you know. So is Monica but she won't read this because she only plays that goofy new-age stuff. Hehe). Actually, so do I so never mind.

Anyway, now that I'm "officially" on the approved Chopin recital list, I'm gonna go nuts with this piece. If the deal is that I've got to play the original as written then I sure hope it's not to hard to learn because my sightreading abilites stink. Good excuse to actually read something even though I'm going to have to use the "every good boy does fine" / "All cows eat grass" method at first! Haha, pathetic I know but think about it, even if I only learn one bar a day, I'll still learn all the bars in a matter of several weeks right? Then just play them one after another until they flow smoothly together.

No promises on whats coming on the ad-lib version but your probably going to regret it! To late to turn back though; A deals a deal.

Does this mean MSH is special?
Seriously, he is tenacious as a bulldog! And yes, I am looking forward to his submittal.

On another note... Mary Rose, now that a good portion of the nocturnes, preludes, etudes have been performed, how do you see these recitals moving forward? Or will they?
As someone, with a fairly newfound respect/admiration/love for Chopin's gift to humanity, I look forward to building on my one and only Chopin piece- Prelude in E minor.

Does this mean MSH is special?

YES!

In addition, I'd like to personally thank Liszaddict for pointing out this fact. I could only imagine that Chopin himself would welcome improvisations of his music and feel proud to have inspired so many other musicians to do the same. *Encouraging* others to participate and enjoy his music just seems to make all kinds of sense.

Now listen, I have no plans on turning this into a sideshow act. I DO respect Chopins work just as all of you do. He was a musical genious just not a deity.....although admitidly pretty close!

Normally I *don't* read the classically oriented threads, hunky, but I saw from the thread listing that you had posted on it, and that got me curious enough to check it out. (I'm sweet on you, you know. )

I don't know if the Chopin crowd is ready for Chopin-in-a-Speedo, though.

Ooooooh, SO busted!

Strings&Wood: I think we must all have a democratic discussion about the Chopin ecitals from 2011 onwards. So if you have any ideas, please share them after October 17.




In fact Chopin HATED people extemporising on his music, which is why I have been reticent about encouraging it in our ecitals. Liszt was prone to add his own variations to Chopn's works, which Chopin didn't like at all. But he won't be hearing our efforts, so won't be hurt by them!

Mary-Rose, are you sure about Chopin "hating" ("hate" is a VERY strong word) other musicians performing variations of his work?

I only ask this because SO many accomplished performers have done so. Were they all inspired by Chopins compositions and decided to play variations of his pieces in the face of his deep "hatred" for others doing this?

[Note]: I'm NOT trying to stir up the nest with this, I honestly don't know what the actual (factual) truth is. I need to be enlightend.

They didn't do it to his face. Only Liszt dared to do, once.

Whether Chopin liked or disliked people making variations out of his work, I think that's hard to prove.

But the fact is Chopin Opus 2 are variations of Mozart's La ci darem la mano.

Rachmaninoff wrote a theme and variations based on the same prelude No 20 that Mr. SH wants to play. Honestly, I don't like this particular work by Rachmaninoff. The theme is there, the variations go completely off the theme, and they just go on and on and on for almost 30 minutes.

We weren't talking about someone writing his own variations on a theme by Chopin. We were talking about someone going off on his own tangent during the performance of one of Chopin's actual compositions. In the one recorded instance he bit Liszt's head off. (Actually, he wasn't all that happy about anyone anyone even handling the fair copies either. He was a bit of a mother hen in that respect. Once he got upset when he smelled cigar smoke on one of them.)