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Rossy is correct! My middle pedal is in fact a practice pedal, much to the delight of Billy O.

RB Greaves died. I've always liked this song, so in memory of him, here's Take a Letter Maria.

Hi Peyton - what an interesting idea - sustaining the f in the bass throughout! For what its worth my thoughts on this are:
Though it might create a 'bagpipes effect (if overdone!) it seems to fit the harmony throughout with the exception of when the bass moves briefly to c.

I suppose your idea would give the piece more gravitas which will 'anchor' the music, and detract from the haunting shiftiness/limbo feeling. Ultimately its down to your personal taste I guess.

Do keep this in mind folks, its not a bluff after all. lol.

You may ask about the new signature if you wish.....

Hello folks, I'm slowly getting there with Gnossienne 7, how's everyone else doin'?

Go on then Rossy, new siggy?
Oh watched your M4 again, really love it, I think I might tackle that next after the Eric Satie, although It's gonna be really hard for me,

Laters peeps, Xfactor tonight, Yippeeee

I’ve memorized the music score of my Gnossiene, but my playing is still clumsy and very little musical. I try to play the piece slowly, but my hands tend to speed up.

I’ve had to put this warning sign on the piano.

Hang on Recaredo, I recognise that sign, Did you get it from wayne?

I am sure he used it for met2 arps..

couldnt resist, I am a bad man. lol.

Hi everyone! I just had a session with my piano teacher who showed me some great techniques for my Gymnopedie piece. I'm not sure if I have enough time to memorize it. However, I'm confident that I'll be able to do justice to performing this beautiful piece.

Peyton, we didn't have enough time to discuss the Gnoissienne and the use of the sostenuto pedal. However, I agree with Dipsy. It makes sense to pursue using the middle pedal, and play around with it. You may also try posting a question on the piano teachers forum. Becca and I lucked out yesterday when someone else asked a technical question about the Gymnopedie. There were two replies with very helpful advice. Give it a try!

Right now, I'm only able to do mini practice sessions because of this busy period at work. I'll be able to put lots more time into practicing after next week.

Recaredo, that sign on your piano is an excellent reminder of the best and most effective practice techniques.

I see everyone is away practising, and slowly! I shall soon have to kick away the tumbleweeds to start Sundays methinks.

I'm sure the kindred spirit is growing strong during these joint efforts but I'm wondering if there should be more time between them. The ABF recitals are every quarter.
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We open today with Rossini's overture to his opera Semiramide, a wonderful piece, and much more popular than the opera itself which marked the end of his Italian years. He had recently turned to Opera Serie after meeting the singer Isabella Colbran. He married her shortly before Semiramide and moved to Paris shortly after, turning his back on Italy and, apart from one late work, Italian opera.

Gabriel Pierné was probably better known as a conductor, he premiered Stravinsky's Firebird, but his March of the Little Lead Soldiers was a popular encore piece. It has huge appeal to anyone with a childlike imagination.

My first introduction to piano music begain by rifling through the music in the bench. A Charlie Kunz collection included a version of Offenbach's Barcarolle from the Tales from Hoffman. His was the first of four transcriptions I learned of this piece.

Liszt is often considered a better pianist than composer and much of his work required more virtuosity than the music warranted. This piece requires little apart from a strong octave technique at the climax. The lack of histrionic grandiosity in his work is a good sign of it's musical worth. This is one of his finest pieces.

It is inspired by Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin.

Whilst Alfred Brendel neither looks like nor me nor plays like me, my son has just wandered in and told me he looks like he's doing an impression of me! I frequently leave the bench at the climaxes.

My last selection for today is Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain. This piece has been a favourite of mine since my early teens when I got passionately into Russian music.

This is the popular Rimsky-Korsakov arrangement of the piece, made a few years after Mussorgsky's death. R-K is one of the world's most accomplished orchestrators.



I wish you all a pleasant Sunday and a fruitful week ahead.

Thanks Richard for another wonderful program. I'm more than halfway finished listening. Will hear the rest later. I must be off to work, however. I'll check in later after I get a little practice in tonight!

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Excellent choices dudes!!

My choice toady is this one by Liberace, I could say chopin, but it isnt anymore.

Feel free to repost in PC, and if they whine or whinge, just ask "Er, who above everybody else in the history of playing the piano for money has made as much dosh as liberace did?"

The answer is Liberace by a long stretch.... the public loved him.

Afternoon all, talking of playing slowly! My mum and dad called yesterday, and had fetched me a metronome, so I thought I'd give it a go. Playing songs like Lady G etc went fine, no probs, probabily because I've already played these along to a beat on the keyboard.

But then, I tried Rob Dougan's clubbed to death, and this wasn't as easy. I had to go REALLY slow to beable to keep in time. Then Met 2, oh dear, now I realise how all over the place I am with it, so forget learning M4 at the mo, back to the drawing board with M2.

I'm gonna attempt Gnossienne 7 with it, really really really slowly, so fingers crossed, this time I might be "in time" lol,

laters

PS Cheers for the Sunday postings Richard

The metronome can be a very humbling experience Wayne. I noticed an I hate the metronome thread on this forum. Apparently someone has some rather strong feelings about!

The Gymnopedie is already petty slow. However, I expect I'll be using the metronome to give me a reality check. I doubt I'll have much time practicing today, however. I must be off to work. Still in that busy period.

Have a great day everyone!

good stuffs.

I like this lately. I actually like a recording with violin and harpsichord I have on some collection I have the best, but on the 'Tube, this was a great one, too.

Greetings everyone. I'm again getting quite irregular at RST Anyway, warm thanks to Richard for his mesmerizing Sunday classical postings! I just finished listening to them yesterday.
Rossy, Liberace's experiment with Chopin's Nocturne sounds good, but isn't it a bit jazzy!
AimeeO, I loved the piano-flute version of Bach's prelude 1 very much! The flute added an extra beauty to this beautiful piece.

Congratulations and good luck with your metronome, Wayne

I'm almost done with learning and memorizing Gnossienne 3. But the hardest part still remains: to extract the mood of the piece correctly

Let's have some amusement to relax between 'serious' practices for serious thread's recital

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wow everyone is away practicing to hard!!
seriously folks, where are you all?