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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | ajames | | From: | Earth | | Experience: | 3.5 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bach short prelude in Cmin BWV 934 | | Composer: | J.S. Bach | | Duration: | 02:01 | | Instrument used: | Kawai model 350 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4n | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I really enjoy Bach, just wish his music didn't make me feel like I have some kind of brain damage! |
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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | Piano2138 | | Experience: | 10 months (+ a couple of years, years ago) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Lost | | Composer: | Milne, Elissa | | Duration: | 01:39 | | Source of music: | Celebration Series - Piano Repertoire Level 1, 2015 edition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CLP-585 | | Recording method: | Piano to USB, WAV normalized & converted to MP3 with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Milne is an Australian contemporary composer, with wonderful educational pieces. Lost is a short, but to express the sadly indication, a challenging piece.
I've added the result of my work on a piece well beyond my level - as planned, the almost 7 beginning bars from Pavane pour une infante defunte by Ravel, a piece I love listening (in particular in the interpretation of Kun-Woo Paik).
Given my current level, I struggled with many things (technique, musicality, how to keep the sound soft), but a great learning experience in fingering, harmony and memory.
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | dynamobt/Marilyn | | From: | New Hampshire | | Experience: | Easily 8 or 9 years as a kid. Dropped piano for decades. Currently 5 years with present teacher | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Kreisleriana - Sehr Langsam (#4) | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 03:23 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | 1918 fully restored Mason & Hamlin BB | | Recording method: | Zoom H2n to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I became obsessed with Kreisleriana after Yuja Wang played it at Carnegie Hall last year. I've listened to many artists play it since. Trifonov, Argerich, Horowitz for just a few.
I asked my teacher last Fall before my shoulder replacement if she thought any of the piece was within my grasp. She said, "Go for it!" So, I sightread what I could of the various movements and settled on #4 as the most doable. It's been my shoulder rehab piece after surgery to replace my right shoulder in October.
I'm currently trying to learn #8. Time will tell how many movements I can conquer.
It's snowing out. My lesson was cancelled today. So thought I would make use of the extra time and record today. As usual, it's my "one take and done". I'm still a little more percussive than I would like in my playing. I have the opportunity to play it for a UNH Music professor in a master class on the 18th. I'm looking forward to him helping me make the piece more musical.
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | Forrest Halford | | From: | Bowling Green, KY (site of the massacre) | | Experience: | I should be better than I am. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/4VRGRMkW9Kc | | Title of piece: | Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 117, #2 | | Composer: | Brahms | | Duration: | 05:21 | | Source of music: | Dover Publication (sheet music) played by memory | | Instrument used: | Baldwin Model L | | Recording method: | Zoom Q2HD | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Richard (Zrtr90) saw that I was working on these three Intermezzi and since he was submitting #1, asked if I would possibly submit one of the others. Sure I said, since when someone you consider a mentor makes a request you should do it. So here I am facing my fears and the red dot. I love playing, it's great therapy, but somehow I feel better if I think no one is listening, although I want them to listen. What a conundrum!!
This piece, as all of Brahms mature work, is tightly composed, rewarding to study and to play. Even though the piece is in Bb minor, you never get the Bb minor chord in root position until the very end. Brahms is the master of tonal ambiguity!
The Op. 117 set, as well as Bach 870 and 883, along with Debussy are being readied for my great niece's wedding in April of this year. There will be a red dot there, so I should just suck it up, right?
My Grandfather was four years old when these were published, but he had no idea who Brahms was. Likewise, Brahms had no idea who my grandfather was. Brahms was 59, the same age I'll be one week after that wedding.
Please pardon the sound of traffic. I live on a highway that sees 10,000 cars a day flying by at 55+. |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | Newbert | | From: | Upstate New York | | Experience: | About 4 years as a "re-starting" adult, after giving it up for about 45 years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Daydreaming | | Composer: | Ron Drotos | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music plus Improvisation | | Instrument used: | Kawai VPC1 using Garritan CFX VST software. | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This "piece" is actually an exercise from the "Flowing Waters" Module of Ron Drotos's Improvisation Course. I wasn't originally going to submit anything for this recital, since I've mainly been working on exercises found in two online courses that I'm taking, and have no new "pieces" ready. But I felt that this "exercise" was pleasant in its own right, so decided to submit it.
The first half of the recording is played from sheet music while the second half's RH melody is improvised over the repeating chord progression. The goal of the exercise is twofold: First, to get comfortable with the LH progression so that it becomes automatic and second-nature, and Second, to get comfortable in letting the RH "flow" (with no hesitations) in creating the improvisation.
Yes, the chord progression and the basic RH melody are both simple but the goal is to get comfortable with improvising. I hope that it shows through in this performance. |
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | SMA55 (Shepherd Abrams) | | From: | Chicago originally, now in St. Louis | | Experience: | I was self taught as a child, but I (finally) began lessons almost 3 years ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/15gEtpIHp90 | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in Bb Minor | | Composer: | Frederic Chopin | | Duration: | 05:55 | | Source of music: | From memory | | Instrument used: | Steinway Model B | | Recording method: | Recorded with iPhone using Zoom iQ6 external microphone, uploaded to iMovie and Audacity, converted into mp4 and mp3 files. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is my second submission to ABF. Apart from a few minor gaffes, I'm mostly pleased with this one. I don't know why the video is slightly out of sync with the audio, as both came from the same source--my iPhone. Perhaps it was the titling that did it? Anyway, thanks a ton for listening! And please feel free to offer any constructive feedback. |
Last edited by BB Player; 02/19/17 09:19 AM. Reason: Fixed video link
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | kalospiano | | From: | Italy | | Experience: | 1 year and a half | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ze1gM_01M | | Home page link: | https://soundcloud.com/kalos-piano | | Title of piece: | Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) | | Composer: | Rudolf Dittrich (arranger) | | Duration: | 03:17 | | Source of music: | http://imslp.org/wiki/Nippon_Gakufu_(Dittrich,_Rudolf) | | Instrument used: | Roland FP30 | | Recording method: | Pianoteq | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm playing here a traditional Japanese song in the piano version arranged by Rudolf Dittrich.
There are other more modern versions around Youtube but I've never managed to find this one, which I believe keeps more intact the Eastern sound.
I'm taking quite a lot of liberty as regards to the tempo. The original version is faster, but I believe a slower pace, especially in certain sections (like the beginning) gives the music a more solemn feel.
I'm also using an old J. Schantz model in Pianoteq instead of the D4 I normally use, as I believe it sounds even more oriental with this string-y timbre, closer to an harpsichord, or, why not, a Japanese instrument like the Koto. |
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | | From: | Toronto | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVdu7BEY43Q | | Title of piece: | Db Nocturne | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 04:59 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha UX-1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had worked on this piece for the recital of last May 2016. At the time it was all I had worked on for the recital so I recorded it, but the last 3rd fell completely apart. I had not completed learning it. Nonetheless, I left it after that and moved on to other things.
Well, I am now trying to get in the habit of completing pieces and not leaving behind so easily. I've had far too many pieces in this state already in my past, and don't want to perpetuate that more now. I decided to try to complete learning it and started in about November after the last recital.
There are some really tricky sections in this for me, which I've found very challenging to get smooth and nice, within a steady tempo. I remember hearing my Dad play it when I was young and always admiring the sound of the quick 3rds, 6ths and chromatic runs. Speed has never really been my thing though and it shows in areas requiring it.
As this is my 2nd time around with it, I will not be spending a great deal more time on it for very long. I will try to keep it up from time to time though, as I now do with many others like it. I appreciate any comments and suggestions that may be left and will apply them as I'm able. I remember what has been suggested for other pieces like Ab Waltz or Moonlight Sonata (from past recitals) and think of them any time I am playing these pieces. I do still play them and the suggestions always makes them better.
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | Ganddalf | | From: | Norway | | Experience: | More than 50 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | "Sommerfugl" (Butterfly, Op.43 no.1) | | Composer: | Grieg | | Duration: | 01:52 | | Source of music: | Peters edition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha AvantGrand N1 hybrid piano | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first time I submit one of Grieg's Lyric Pieces to one of the ABF quarterly recitals. Choosing "Butterfly" was perhaps a bad idea, since it is one of the most frequently played, and it is pretty challenging although it takes just below 2 minutes to play. Moreover I'm haunted by some bad habits from my young days when I "played" this piece in a just terrible way. I have tried to make a more polished version now, and I hope that you enjoy listening in spite of my shortcomings. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | | From: | Cleveland, OH | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | too many years on my own; past 8 years with a teacher | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 1 | | Composer: | Brahms | | Duration: | 04:45 | | Source of music: | http://imslp.org/ | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 upright | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-08. Converted to MP3 using Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My teacher suggested that I try a Brahms piece and pointed me to Op. 118 No.3. But after listening to Op. 117 No.1 and falling under its charm, I decided to start my acquaintance with Brahms here.
A lullaby is implied from the inscription on the first page of the score. These lines read, "Sleep softly, my child, sleep softly and well! It breaks my heart to see you weep."
This piece is very much about its three voices and phrasing. It was fun deciding on the voice emphasis for each section, and playing with phrasing to see how it changed the resulting sound. Surprising to me, I did not feel intimidated by the 6 flats in the middle section. Maybe I'm finally starting to figure this out! The third section is my favorite, with some beautiful sixteenth note passages in the right hand. |
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | CRP | | From: | Milan, Italy | | Experience: | I started trying to teach myself at age 39, then decided to get a teacher after hitting a few walls. I have taken regular lessons for one and half years now, at 44. No other previous musical education. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Comptine d'un autre ete - L'apres midi | | Composer: | Yann Tiersen | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Source of music: | sheet music found on the net... | | Instrument used: | Steinway Model B | | Recording method: | via IPhone "Voice Memos" App, then converted m4p file to mp3 with ffmpeg | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first "longer" piece that I have tackled since starting to play, and I have quite a few issues remaining concentrated throughout the piece. I can play short sections fine, but there is currently no way for me to go through the whole pieces without getting distracted at a certain point.
Unfortunately I will not have access to the piano for the next few days, so the version I uploaded, which contains a number of mistakes, is the best I could do, sorry  |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | Sam S | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | I restarted about 8 years ago after 30+ years of no piano. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata K380 | | Composer: | Scarlatti, Domenico | | Duration: | 05:19 | | Source of music: | Henle | | Instrument used: | 1927 Bechstein Model L - 90 years old this year! | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is one of the more famous Scarlatti Sonatas, since Horowitz used to play it. I love it, but I would not have picked it just because it is so familiar - my new teacher wanted me to do it. When something is familiar, then if I play if differently (which I have to do - couldn't play it like Horowitz anyway), people think - "that's too slow", "that's too loud", and so forth. Much better to pick one of the less well known Sonatas - Scarlatti wrote about 600!
I try to play it bright and crisp, more baroque harpsichord than romantic piano. I am going for an echo effect at times, especially in the introduction, but that's hard to pull off.
My piano is 90 years old this year - I should have a birthday party. I moved it to a new room in the house, and I have not yet figured out how to tame the sound in that room. There's no furniture! I've got the lid closed and the fabric cover on so the balance is way off. More experimentation is required (and some furniture). My wife is making me a full-size quilt to hang on the wall - that should help!
I'm playing this in a recital next month. I recorded it in one take, from memory. That is a major accomplishment for me - I never thought I would be able to say that! The new teacher has really helped with my memory problems.
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | SandTiger | | From: | Southern California | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Fading Light | | Composer: | Sand Tiger | | Duration: | 01:38 | | Source of music: | Original composition. | | Instrument used: | Casio PX150 | | Recording method: | On board recording. Transferred to PC. Audacity used to boost the signal. | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | The motif came to me during the last days of summer, and that was the working title for a while. |
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | Kris Shendo | | From: | Hampshire, UK | | Experience: | Several years as a child, many lapsed years, recently returned as an adult. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Jacob's Theme | | Composer: | James Newton Howard | | Duration: | 01:26 | | Source of music: | Memorised from watching film | | Instrument used: | VPC-1 with Ravenscroft sample library | | Recording method: | Digitally into laptop | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Recently I saw the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and liked the catchy little tune that emerged a couple of times in association with the "no-maj" (no magic) character Jacob Kowalski. I've tried an adaptation of the basic piano tune, which appears in the film in what I think are different keys - C minor and G minor. I've put it together in two halves for the different keys and improvised the bits where, in the film, other parts of the orchestra come in. As it's a simple tune it should have been easy but I've never tried playing anything "jazzy" or syncopated before so I actually found it quite tricky, but really enjoyed the process anyway. I hope you like it! |
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | that'sRich | | From: | Hertfordshire, UK | | Experience: | 5 years of lessons from age of 7 to 12 then about
2 1/2 years from age 27. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Night in May | | Composer: | Selim Palmgren | | Duration: | 03:42 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Upright acoustic piano - Waldemar(Berlin) - Manufactured in 1909. | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Also known as 'May Night','Spring Night' or 'Kevatyo', in the language of its composer it was called 'Night in May' on my mother's old piece of music dating from the 1930s.
The Finnish composer Selim Palmgren (1878 - 1951) I have read was strongly influenced by Schumann and Chopin and although his music was rooted in the late Romantic tradition he was the first Finnish composer to use impressionistic elements.
This piece was No.4 of 4 pieces in Opus 27 and was written in 1907 (the year following the piece I played in my 1st recital No.42 - Rosemary by Frank Bridge). I understand it was very popular during the first few decades of the 20th century but has over the years like its composer become much more obscure. That being said I have learned that it was a Grade 7 option in the ABRSM examinations for 2015 - 2016. In notes following the piece in the syllabus it mentions that full use is made of this composer's extensive tonal palette.
With this piece the volume level mostly is supposed to be quiet - with several pp's and also ppp's. I had problems playing chords successfully at these levels worrying that often one or two notes wouldn't sound. Consequently I ended up not playing as quietly as it should be played. That included a section half way through which was supposed to be played diminuendo - a run of changing chords in quavers - which I didn't manage to play in diminuendo! I might have managed this better if my piano had a lighter weight of touch. |
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | jazztpt | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 41 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Time For Bed | | Composer: | jazztpt | | Duration: | 02:47 | | Source of music: | Original | | Instrument used: | Roland HP507 | | Recording method: | Recorded direct to piano and converted to MP3 in Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I wrote this tune about 30 years ago and it has taken various transformations in that time, mainly because I (hopefully) can play the piano a bit better now. It was written as a bedtime song for my children and the original version was really quiet simple.
A couple of recordings of this up to date version have appeared in the Piano Bar in the past few years and this is the latest development. Recorded in one take there is the odd moment where 'unexpected' things happened, no doubt due to the red dot but I managed to plough through. So in effect I have been playing this for 30+ years, you'd think I would have it right by now LOL
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Moonsh1ne | | From: | NJ | | Experience: | 3.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/nry2ntlqzlY | | Title of piece: | Waltz in A Minor, Op. Posthumous | | Composer: | Frederick Chopin | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | imslp.org | | Instrument used: | August Forster 190 | | Recording method: | iPad w/ Tascam iM2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | 2nd take |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | lyricmudra | | From: | Illinois, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Learned piano as a child but stopped when I was about 13 or 14 years old. Did not touch the piano for 35 years until about six years ago. Like many of us here at ABF, life and profession just took over. I remember learning from a Thompson book and moving on to Hanon lessons, but skipping the scale exercises entirely, which if I recall correctly was almost half of the Hanon book. Then I had some Czerny for velocity and dexterity. My piano teacher, however, preferred that I jump right into 'real' pieces and learn technique along the way. Unfortunately, music theory was not part of my lessons. This is why I am unable to comprehend a piece conceptually or structurally, or why I don't have the language to explain what I am doing musically. My early training lacked this intellectual component. However, I believe I learned the most by being part of a boys' choir, by understanding early enough that playing the piano is like singing, knowing the importance of connectedness (legato) and phrasing, and understanding the breath during emotional expression. These were the elements that accelerated my process of relearning the piano later in life. I have not had a piano teacher since I started the relearning process, but would like to work with one in the future. I am willing to start at a more basic level if that will provide me with a more 'proper' and thorough training that includes sight reading, aural training, music theory, etc.. For now, I play the piano primarily for pleasure and personal fulfillment. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/z3BObRsWkHQ | | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/user/lyricmudra | | Title of piece: | Monday | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 06:17 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai RX-2 Blak | | Recording method: | Kodak Zi8 (video) and Zoom H4N (audio) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Having been inspired by Monica K.'s, CarlosCC's, and others' Einaudi repertoire, I thought I'd give THE man a try! I fell in love with Einaudi's 'Monday' the first time I heard it, and thoroughly enjoyed learning the piece. It is my first 'non-classical' piece and the very first I've memorized as an adult learner (I had no choice given its length!). Being primarily a classical piano learner, there were several unfamiliar musical patterns in the piece that my brain and fingers were challenged with. It also took some amount of 'unlearning' my classical piano leanings, which I believe still showed through in this performance. I hope you all like it though! |
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | carlos88 | | From: | Colorado | | Experience: | 4 as a returning adult. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/Ak0muHqAsoI | | Title of piece: | Our Town, III. The Resting-place on the Hill | | Composer: | Aaron Copland | | Duration: | 03:50 | | Source of music: | Our Town, Three Piano Excerpts from the Film Score. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha | | Recording method: | Samsung phone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm a sucker for most of Copland's earlier works, especially the ones with open chords and slow moving lines. |
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | sinophilia | | From: | Italy | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhqxFyTILgs | | Title of piece: | A Curious Story - Op. 15 no. 2 | | Composer: | Robert Schumann | | Duration: | 01:21 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha W110BW | | Recording method: | iPhone 6s | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Scenes from Childhood is a set of 13 Romantic pieces by Robert Schumann. This is the third one I learned after nos. 1 and 13. It has a thick 4-voice texture and an upbeat tempo, with contrasting jumpy sections and softer legato parts.
I learned the notes quickly, but the pedalling gave me headaches and my left hand has a hard time keeping up. Thank God it's short! During this recording I hit a key by mistake during the first part repeat, but didn't have any other major mishap, so it's definitely a winner. |
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