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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Experience: | 6 years of piano experience + 5 years many years ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Fly Me To The Moon | | Composer: | Bart Howard | | Duration: | 02:08 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 with software Piano + Band In a box for accompaniement | | Recording method: | iMac Garageband | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | Teodor | | From: | Bulgaria | | Experience: | 3 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/teodortenchev/ | | Title of piece: | Donnie Darko - The Artifact and the Living | | Duration: | 02:31 | | Source of music: | Sheet music. | | Recording method: | Phone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Old piece, I learned this 2 years ago. I haven't been playing it at all since but it was easy to remember how it's done since it's not complicated. |
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | (Was)TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 4.5 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/RR5iRnuZUOU | | Title of piece: | Us | | Composer: | Original | | Duration: | 03:37 | | Source of music: | Self Composition | | Instrument used: | Essex Upright | | Recording method: | I recorded using Flip camera. I extracted the audio using SuperOne | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Hope you guys like it. Thanks to everyone for listening and big thanks to people who make this recital happen every quarters |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | MrPozor | | From: | France | | Experience: | 9 months, taking lessons since 2 months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/ra365OY3FPc | | Title of piece: | Un poco adagio | | Composer: | Clementi, Muzio | | Duration: | 01:16 | | Source of music: | "The Piano Handbook" by Carl Humphries | | Instrument used: | Petrof 118 L1 | | Recording method: | Recorded with Canon EOS 650D (video) and Zoom H1 (audio) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Took me a looong time to play it without errors. |
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | Jazztpt (Russ) | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 37+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/ZE72GSaku2Q | | Title of piece: | Another Song + Maya | | Composer: | Jazztpt | | Duration: | 04:37 | | Source of music: | Original compositions | | Instrument used: | Roland HP507 | | Recording method: | Direct to HP507 then into Audacity to convert to MP3 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I would like to present 2 original compositions for this recital. I wrote the opening bars of "Another song" some time ago but I was never satisfied with the rest of the tune and have more or less re-written the whole thing for this recital. The title is the original one , as I remember I just couldn't think of anything better !
The tune "Maya" was written just over a year ago, it was to celebrate the birth of my first grand child Maya. At the time I posted a version to the Piano Bar but this is a more polished and refined version having had a bit of time to mature.
I must say I thought I had got over the devil of the red dot until I switched the video camera on to record Another Song and my fingers turned to jelly. So not as good as I have been playing it recently but the first take is always best for me so this is it. I recorded Maya a few weeks ago without video. |
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | Sand Tiger | | From: | United States | | Experience: | 11 months on keyboard, 10+ years on whistle and Irish flute | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Shadow | | Composer: | Sand Tiger | | Duration: | 02:14 | | Source of music: | Original composition in C major. | | Instrument used: | Casio PX-150 digital piano | | Recording method: | Recorded on the Casio using the built in function. I played back that recording into a Sony voice recorder to get a portable MP3 file. I used Audacity to boost the output volume using the compressor. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Serendipity has me recording and uploading on Ground Hog day. This is my first week with the Casio PX-150, a significant upgrade from a 61-key Yamaha NP11.
Shadow is a companion piece to Shimmer, my November 2012 recital piece. I found that relatively minor changes such as moving down a few notes and slowing down gives me a different mood. Shimmer is a happy, upbeat tune, while Shadow is pensive and brooding in places. The two pieces together bring me closer to a goal derived from a John Coltrane quote:
My music is a spiritual expression of who I am |
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | PhilzPiano | | From: | UK | | Experience: | About 3 years of sporadic self teaching. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude no. 1 in C major | | Composer: | Bach | | Duration: | 01:56 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-110 with Pianoteq 4 Stage version | | Recording method: | Pianoteq for recording and Audacity for MP3 conversion | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I haven't done a lot of practice in the last year or so for various reasons, but plan to make much more effort from now on! |
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | Daren | | From: | England | | Experience: | 10 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Quanta Qualia | | Composer: | Patrick Hawes | | Duration: | 03:53 | | Source of music: | Sheetmusic,out of Patrick Hawes Towards the Light. | | Instrument used: | Roland Rd700nx | | Recording method: | Direct to usb memory stick | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Very nice piano piece from patrick hawes.Subsequently chosen by Hayley Westenra for her 2005 album Odyssey.I like this piece for its simplicity and textures and as it builds up and down in exspression,youve got to listen to all the piece to fully enjoy. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | timmyab | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 20 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Allemande from French Suite no 4 | | Composer: | Bach | | Duration: | 04:48 | | Source of music: | A Keyboard Anthology, third series, book 5. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP S30 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I couldn't decide how to play this.It sounds dreamy played slowly with plenty of pedal, but I also like it faster with less pedal.In the end I've recorded both versions and welded them together so you can decide for yourself which you prefer.I hope this isn't against the rules.
Thanks to anyone who listens and especially people that take time to comment.These recitals have really helped my playing a lot. |
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | Peterws | | From: | Northern England | | Experience: | Many years. I do not consider myself accomplished, but I get by. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Regrets. I have a Few . . | | Composer: | Me | | Duration: | 03:50 | | Source of music: | Generally, compose/play by ear. Playing generally, a mixture of ear and sometimes adapted music. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha DGX620 | | Recording method: | Audacity or Wavepad. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is unusually for me a dark piece. Think "bereavement", "Hope Gone" or "If only" . . . . many have been there. Hard work putting it together. This is the shortened version; it has a second happier part which is another couple of minutes.
Because life goes on . . |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | | From: | Cleveland, OH | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 40 years on my own, last 4 years with a teacher | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz in C# minor, Op.64 No.2 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 04:01 | | Source of music: | memorized from sheet music (IMSLP) | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 upright | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-08. Converted to MP3 using Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I discovered this piece many years ago when I bought my first new piano. It was a digital piano and had this as its one demo song. I was in awe of this music and the swirling energy that could easily sweep you away. My son and I loved to listen to it. We would put the piano in demo mode and pretend that we were playing this piece, because of course, neither of us had any hope that we could ever play it for real. Twenty years fly by... Although my son is grown and the piano given away, I don't have to pretend anymore. And I'm still in awe of this music. This is for my little boy and our dreams. |
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | BenPiano | | From: | USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/Hukha2npCz4 | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/afpaSTU1096 | | Title of piece: | All of These Things For You | | Composer: | Ben Piano | | Duration: | 03:32 | | Source of music: | Me | | Instrument used: | Kawai K5 upright | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 perched atop my upright, lid closed. | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Silly Songs With Ben (vol 1)
This song dropped out of the sky into my lap two weeks before the recital, and I've obsessed over it until - well, I haven't stopped yet. But I think I've calmed down a bit since I re-submitted it a second time for the recital after tweeking a few things.
I never had any intentions of singing while playing, but this song demanded it, so I learned how.
My wife has always joked around about me writing a song for her. That was back when I used to play guitar. I would have loved to, but nothing ever seemed appropriate.
Years later, now learning piano, this song was given to me. It's a little silly, but at least relates my feelings into something we both get and is appropriate.
She certainly deserves the unobtainable, and all I've ever managed to provide is mundane reality. I'm such a schlub. A very lucky schlub.
Except I can now say I finally gave her a song. 
The lyrics for those that can't understand my mumbling:
A cabin on your private isle
A leisurely six-minute mile
A waterfall frozen in time
Disney without any lines
All for you
All of these things for you
A potion to never grow old
A chest full of silver and gold
A mountain that touches the sun
Peace for everyone
All for you
All of these things for you
Oh, that's right - money's tight
An afternoon trip to the zoo
A slightly abused iPad 2
Children that always fight
Pizza on Saturday night
All for you
All of these things for you |
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | Ganddalf | | From: | Norway | | Experience: | 46 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata A-flat major (Hob XVI - 46) first movement | | Composer: | Haydn | | Duration: | 05:57 | | Source of music: | Peters Edition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Avant Grand N1 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Haydn wrote a lot of sonatas, and they don't get the attention they deserve. Many of them are well within the range of amateur pianists, and often it is possible to make them sound good with relatively little effort. From that stage it is possible to work on details and continue improving, the ultimate goal being to play the sonatas with great delicacy like the master pianists.
I decided to play only the first movement of the sonata, and hope that those of you listening to the whole movement will not be bored to death. Any feedback is welcome, and please feel free to send me personal messages if you want more information about this piece or other Haydn sonatas. |
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | beechcraft409 | | From: | TX, USA | | Experience: | a little over 3 years... I should be way better | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyTd3AKxS4Y | | Title of piece: | Ombre | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:01 | | Source of music: | Sheets | | Instrument used: | KORG SP-250 | | Recording method: | Webcam / Line-in | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Well about halfway through, my recording software decided to make a nice jump forward a bit. Could be better quality audio, too, I suppose.
Anyhow, been messing with this one for just about a month. It's not all shiny but I might as well participate in the recital. Had a lot of fun with this one, first Einaudi that I have done. Hoping to learn more of his works. Hope ya like it! My mom does, but she has to 
Oh for lunch I had a couple chicken strips and potato chips. |
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | | From: | Ireland | | Experience: | I've been playing for more years than I have left. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Notturno Op. 54 No. 4 | | Composer: | Grieg | | Duration: | 04:26 | | Source of music: | Memorised from the score | | Instrument used: | Kawai CA95 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've wanted to learn Grieg's Notturno since the early eighties when I saw it listed as an easy starter in Charles Cooke's Playing the Piano for Pleasure. It is not such an easy piece, though by no means a mammoth undertaking, and the difference between the perception of its difficulties (none) and the reality (some) has thwarted my previous attempts at it.
The central Piu mosso is a good test of double finger technique and the extended trills can be troublesome. I've not come out unscathed in any of them.
The quavers blossom into triplets before bursting into flower on these trills and I am still lacking the confidence to play the triplets without counting them (sadly not the left hand) and despite the simple pattern of the chromatic descent leading to the coda it has been a struggle to memorise - the hesitations are quite obvious from the recording - but these things and other little details will come with time.
I'm delighted to finally have this piece under my belt and I don't think I'd have finished it yet had I not planned it for this recital. It's a wonderful debut for my new Kawai CA95, which has replaced my 24 year old Clavinova and with which I'm overjoyed.
I still wince when I hear the Romance Sans Paroles from last time but I have listened to this recording since I uploaded it and am quite pleased with it.
I made a note in the last recital that my selection was normally a beautiful piece. I did not intend to imply that my playing wasn't beautiful but that it is beautiful without much effort, whoever plays it, and was therefore surprised it hadn't been chosen before. This nocturne is the same and yet has not been aired since Recital #16.
I have read, and if I'm honest, re-read all the wonderful comments people made about my last recital and I never got round to acknowledging them all. Let me do that here. Thank you to those that commented, thank you to those that contributed, and thank you to those that just listened. And a special thank you to those that organise this splendid opportunity. |
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Yamaha G3 & P-80, Mike White | | From: | United States | | Experience: | Lifetime by ear 7+ self-teaching | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Album Leaf | | Composer: | Debussy | | Duration: | 02:20 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | There are only a couple of Youtube recordings of this piece, so I didn't have much to go on. |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 5 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Let's Cool One | | Composer: | Thelonious Monk | | Duration: | 01:19 | | Source of music: | Thelonious Monk Easy Piano Solos | | Instrument used: | Milton Spinet | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One of Monk's more obscure tunes. I had not heard of it before, and it doesn't seem to be played very much. He certainly came up with some wierd names for tunes. Apparently, Let's Cool One was named for a phrase favored by Harlem disc jockey and entertainer Ralph Cooper. It was first recorded in 1952.
Here is a later live version version I found by Monk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7F5jxJCeRY |
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | FarmGirl | | From: | Country side of Japan | | Experience: | Do not want to recall | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5BQ0ZAbPUI | | Title of piece: | Brahms 118 #2 | | Composer: | Brahms | | Duration: | 07:13 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Baldwin R | | Recording method: | ZOOM Q3 HD | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | Got cold. Have fever no voice. Had whiskey and wine to feel better. |
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | Completely self-taught since 2007 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Shadow of Your Smile & Misty - Medley. | | Composer: | Johnny Mandel / Erroll Garner | | Duration: | 06:39 | | Source of music: | Lead sheets (only melody and chords) | | Instrument used: | Unfortunately still DP Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | DP to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The Shadow of Your Smile
Initially I planned to submit only Misty but one day I came across the lead sheet of The Shadow of Your Smile and instantly fell in love with it. I couldn't drag myself from playing it over and over again so I decided to include it in my submission.
In this piece I tried to imitate the base (the left hand), the rhythm guitar (a kind of strumming) and the piano. So close your eyes, please - can you see this little trio?
Misty
A Beautiful piece. The Classic made in zillion renditions but I always wanted to play such pieces in my, i.e. known, standards in the style between jazz and so called cocktail piano - beautiful melody, jazzy chords.
As a completely self-taught aspiring pianist I like to treat every piece as an exercise. In Misty I tried to use the whole keyboard, I mean as many keys as possible, from almost the lowest one to the highest, practice walking base in the left hand, runs, broken chords and octaves in the right hand.
I know the beginnings of almost each chorus are played a little too fast, my fingers slipped two or three times but nonetheless I hope you will enjoy it.
Last but not least - funny thing and a puzzle
Once practicing Misty my right hand flew too far and suddenly I started to play in another key. I liked it so I changed the chords accordingly and incorporated one chorus in this new key to the piece.
And here is my question: at what time did I change the key in Misty?
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