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Please do not post in this thread - use the discussion thread!Welcome to the Spanish Latin American Themed Recital! Fifteen pianists have performed 29 pieces representing composers from Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. A separate thread has been created for discussion: Spanish Themed Recital discussion threadA template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback: Spanish Themed Recital Response TemplateThere are three ways to listen to the recital: You can listen to individual performances below. You can use the Online Streaming PlayerOr you can download the zip files: span1.zipspan2.zipspan3.zipspan4.zipYou can also listen to previous ABF recitals through the ABF Recital Index Many thanks to everyone who participated in this recital. Special thanks Monica and Sam for your advice with recital management and of course to everyone who has made the recitals possible here on ABF. DO NOT POST ON THIS THREAD!
Time to listen and ENJOY!
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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | dire tonic | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Chega de Saudade | | Composer: | Antonio Carlos Jobim | | Duration: | 03:06 | | Source of music: | own arrangement | | Instrument used: | VPC1/Garritan CFX | | Recording method: | Cubase | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Memory's a bit of a problem these days so decided finally to get to grips with Sibelius scoring for drafting this out, which itself cut into the time left for an eleventh-hour effort hence a couple of edits to ease the task. There's quite a lot I'd have changed if I'd had the sense to start earlier but panic set in and didn't have the time to remedy an overly busy final quarter of the song which is reprised after the 'solo'. Filched a couple of bars from the Corea/Burton version to slot between the minor and major sections. |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | mel_lem/Melanie | | From: | Malaysia | | Experience: | Retarted since December 2016 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | https://soundcloud.com/mel_lem22/tracks | | Title of piece: | Os Pintinhos no Terreiro | | Composer: | Zequinha de Abreu | | Duration: | 03:29 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CLP-120 | | Recording method: | Live audio recorded through line-in into Garageband running on iPad. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece is definitely out of my current level. I have been working on it since early August, and yet it took me a few weekends attempting to record a take without major mistakes. One cruel wakeup call when I was recording it -> I do not have the stamina to keep up with the flow of the music, guess I will have to keep working on building up my stamina for longer pieces. Another challenge is how this piece should be played stylistically. The notes and the rhythms are not challenging, the difficult part is how to make it sound like Choro, which beat to accent etc. Also, this should be played more upbeat and fast.
My favourite part is section B. 
Lunch was curry pork chop with rice!
I hope you enjoy my submission. Thank you for listening! |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | UnderConstruction | | From: | Australia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 2.5 years as a child, returning adult for the past almost 3 years I think? | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/xtGvLiSuimE | | Title of piece: | Remando | | Composer: | Ernesto Nazareth | | Duration: | 02:13 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1 | | Recording method: | iPad + Tascam | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Last minute decision to record and submit a piece for this recital. Probably the last piece I record on this piano before the new piano comes! |
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | | From: | Madison WI | | Experience: | 60+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Cancion y Danza #14 | | Composer: | Federico Mompou | | Duration: | 04:29 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand | | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Federico Mompou was a composer born in Barcelona, of a Catalonian father and French mother. His musical education was in Paris, and his unique style of composition first became known, and admired, in 1920s France. The difficulties of the War years eventually prompted him to return to Barcelona, where he remained for the remainder of his considerably long life (1893-1987).
His 15 Canciones y Danzas were written not as a set, but individually, over a time span of 60 years or so. More typically, they were his unique, elegant settings of a Folk Song and a Dance, although he did create a few "from scratch". The Cancion y Danza #14 was written in 1979, when he was 85 years old. The Cancion is based on the song "Petiteta l'Han Casada"; the Danza, "La Danza de Castel Terso (Canco del Lladro). |
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | | From: | Madison WI | | Experience: | 60+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Divagacio | | Composer: | Xavier Montsalvatge | | Duration: | 03:33 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music (Boileau) | | Instrument used: | Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand | | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Xavier Montsalvatge was born in Barcelona, Catalonia Spain, in 1912. He received his training in Madrid, and first made his mark in the 1940s, particularly for a set of songs called Canciones Negras. He later made his mark in the Barcelona area as a music critic as well as a composer throughout the 1950s and 60s, and later returned to teaching while maintaining an active compositional presence in both the Opera and Orchestral world. He died in 2002.
His "Divagacio" (Digression, roughly translated) was written in 1949, "per a l'admirada Alicia de Larrocha", who was only 26 years old at the time, but had already established herself as one of Spain's finest up-and-coming ambassadors. Of course, she was later to become the stuff of legend. |
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | Whizbang (Chris) | | Experience: | 35+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://youtube.com/user/Aeschala | | Title of piece: | Oblivion | | Composer: | Astor Piazzolla | | Duration: | 03:54 | | Source of music: | Sheet music. Arrangement by Viktoriya Yermolyeva | | Instrument used: | Fandrich Piano Company U-122 | | Recording method: | Zoom R24 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Despite my focus on ragtime, Astor Piazzolla is probably my favorite composer ever. However, he composed for ensemble. This makes finding good piano arrangements difficult to impossible, because the arrangers have to condense five or more instruments into a faithful representation of the original.
I ran across a performance of this arrangement on YouTube and the performer, Viktoriya Yermolyeva, also had prepared a sheet version of it.
I don't have a video recording this time. My phone ran out of storage space in the middle of recording this take. |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | PianogrlNW (Ellen) | | From: | Seattle area | | Experience: | 6 as youth, around 6 as adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Milonga del Angel | | Composer: | Astor Piazzolla | | Duration: | 03:34 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Grand | | Recording method: | H2N | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Milonga Del Angel was composed by Piazzolla in 1965 for his quintet that consisted of bandeon, double bass, electric guitar, piano and violin. He was forging a new fusion sound of classical and jazz with Argentinian tango thrown in. I am not sure who transcribed the piece for solo piano. I found the piece in the RCM Grade 8 book that was circulating a few years ago, but believe it has been dropped in the most recent syllabus. I added the trills and rolled chord at the end. |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | | From: | Toronto | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/uKfXWxO97JU | | Title of piece: | Libertango | | Composer: | Astor Piazzolla | | Duration: | 03:36 | | Source of music: | A mix. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One thing I've discovered about this tune is that there appears to be as many arrangements for it as there are performances of it. So, here is another.
The rhythm I am using for the A section I got from an arrangement by Gregorius. The last time I did a small piece of Libertango, I'd made it into a medley for a past recital. At the time I did not attempt the rhythm with counter-melody plus the main melody from this same Gregorius arrangement as it was looking too tough and out of reach. It felt like I needed 3 hands. I'd come up with something else. This time I've tried it. I'm happy it has come along as well as it has (the A sections that is) but it is still a work in progress to get nicer. It was difficult for me in the beginning of restoring this and I was not drawn to it. As it started coming together, it has become more enjoyable to practice and fun to play as it really has a very cool sound to it I think, when the melody, counter-melody and rhythm start working well together. The rest is my own interpretation of how I've remembered it going from the arrangements I'd heard and then putting the components together into some sort of playable arrangement for me. This is my 3rd recording of it now and they are all very different. The versions have progressed in difficulty, I can say that much. The sound though will always take more work. It's been a challenging piece.
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Pianist685 | | From: | Hamburg, Germany | | Experience: | Classical piano lessons from age 6 to 18, playing without a teacher since | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Por una cabeza | | Composer: | Carlos Gardel | | Duration: | 02:28 | | Source of music: | Based on sheet music by Adam Cuerden (2008) | | Instrument used: | 1968 Sauter 108 upright with retrofit Pianodisc GT2 mini silent system | | Recording method: | Silent system via MIDI cable to notebook with Galaxy Vintage D, recorded with Savihost plugin | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | Pianist685 | | From: | Hamburg, Germany | | Experience: | Classical piano lessons from age 6 to 18, playing without a teacher since | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Intermezzo No. 1 | | Composer: | Manuel Ponce | | Duration: | 02:40 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | 1968 Sauter 108 upright with retrofit Pianodisc GT2 mini silent system | | Recording method: | Silent system via MIDI cable to notebook with Galaxy Vintage D, recorded with Savihost plugin | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | | From: | Madison, WI | | Experience: | 60+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Danza de la Pastora | | Composer: | Ernesto Halffter | | Duration: | 03:53 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music (Boileau) | | Instrument used: | Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand | | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Ernesto Halffter comes out of a family very much devoted to Classical Music, although not of it, in the direct sense. He was educated in Madrid, and over a long period became a well-known name in Spanish music circles, over many decades. This piece comes from a Ballet entitled "Sonatina", written in the late 20s (i.e., when he was young and upcoming). Like a lot of his early music, Scarlatti was clearly his muse, and this piece has all the earmarks of a Scarlatti Sonata. |
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | Pianist685 | | From: | Hamburg, Germany | | Experience: | Classical piano lessons from age 6 to 18, playing without a teacher since | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Romanza de Amor | | Composer: | Manuel Ponce | | Duration: | 03:51 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | 1968 Sauter 108 upright with retrofit Pianodisc GT2 mini silent system | | Recording method: | Silent system via audio grabber from headphone jack to notebook, then Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | To my mind, the original piano sound of the silent system is not smooth enough for this piece. I should have recorded it from Galaxy Vintage D. |
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | Pianist685 | | From: | Hamburg, Germany | | Experience: | Classical piano lessons from age 6 to 18, playing without a teacher since | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Scherzino Mexicano | | Composer: | Manuel Ponce | | Duration: | 02:23 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | 1968 Sauter 108 upright with retrofit Pianodisc GT2 mini silent system | | Recording method: | Silent system via audio grabber from headphone jack to notebook, then Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I am still wondering what a Mexican Scherzino (small Scherzo) should sound like. I listened to some piano and guitar recordings of the piece on Youtube, played by Mexican musicians, and all of them play it in a romantic way with lots of extreme Latin-American rubato, thus, making it sad-sweet. So I have imitated that way of playing since it seems to be correct. However, a Scherzo or Scherzino, from the original meaning of the word (scherzo, ital. = joke), should be merry and lively. Do the Mexicans have some special understanding what a joke is? |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Kalos Piano | | From: | Italy | | Experience: | about 2 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck40MSfj3M8 | | Home page link: | https://soundcloud.com/kalos-piano | | Title of piece: | "Prelude" from "Seis Hojas De Album" | | Composer: | Isaac Albeniz | | Duration: | 01:49 | | Source of music: | | Instrument used: | Roland FP30 | | Recording method: | Audio recorded via the keyboard's built-in recorder. Converted into WAV via Pianoteq and then converted into MP3 via Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | | From: | Madison, WI | | Experience: | 60+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Cubana | | Composer: | Manuel de Falla | | Duration: | 04:14 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music (Kalmus) | | Instrument used: | Kawai 5.5' Baby Grand | | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Manuel de Falla is one of the better-known Spanish composers from turn-of-the century Spain. He was regarded in his early years as exceptionally gifted in Madrid, and as a result went to Paris to learn from "the best". The "Cubana" is the second in a series entitled simply "Four Spanish Pieces", which he wrote in 1908 and is still regarded as his first really significant contribution to the solo piano literature. |
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | PianogrlNW (Ellen) | | From: | Seattle area | | Experience: | Around 12 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Malaguena | | Composer: | Isaac Albeniz | | Duration: | 04:30 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Grand | | Recording method: | H2N | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Albeniz composed Rumores del la Caleta, malaguena in 1887, as part of a collection of seven pieces entitled Recuerdos de Viaje (Opus 71), or Travel Memoirs. His piano compositions captured the spirit and atmosphere of Spanish cities and countryside and he incorporated Spanish folk idioms such as the dances that were popular at the time. Malaguena has a back and forth quality, with a measure of the lyrical melody followed by a rhythmic staccato accompaniment in the following measure, almost as if the accompaniment was played by another instrument. The piece has a melancholy, soulful mood that I tried to capture. |
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | SwissMS/Doris | | From: | Spain - Costa del Sol | | Experience: | Approx 9 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JK4GIF6EPg | | Title of piece: | Spanish Dances - Oriental op. 5 #2 | | Composer: | Granados | | Duration: | 05:36 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Bosendorfer 214VC | | Recording method: | Zoom HD4 to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Historically many cultures inhabited Spain. "Oriental" connveys the exotic cultures of the Moors, and the Gypsies who remained in Spain for centuries, dwelling mainly in the southern region of Andulucia. The B section evokes the expressive style found in cante Flamenco.
The greatest challenge in the piece for me was that most of the piece is to be played piano or pianisimo. It was difficult for me to learn to subdue the left hand against a right hand in the upper registers, without the right hand sounding harsh. Hence this piece was more of a challenge than I expected.
This is a one take recording. It has some warts, but it is indicative of how I would perform it at the moment. |
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Barbaram | | From: | Ireland | | Experience: | 4 years back as an adult, 4 years as a kid, occasional dabbling in between | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Danza de la moza donosa | | Composer: | Ginastera | | Duration: | 03:26 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai CS8 | | Recording method: | Digital to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love this piece - the sweetness, the dissonance, the romance of it. It was a real stretch for me when I started with it, still is really.
I submitted this to an ABF quarterly recital last year. I wasn't entirely satisfied with where I had got to, but I had taken it as far as I could at the time and needed to take a break from it.
This recital was a good motivation to return to the piece and try to make some further progress.
There's still a lot of room for improvement, and this recording is a bit sloppy in places, but I feel it's come on quite a bit on this revisit and I'm happy about that. |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | Ganddalf | | From: | Norway | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sous le Palmier | | Composer: | Isaac Albeniz | | Duration: | 03:30 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha AvantGrand N1 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Sous le Palmier is the third piece in the suite "Cantos de Espana". I chose it because it didn't sound too difficult technically. Alas, I was wrong, at least for a person with virtually no experience with Spanish music it proved to be quite challenging. I would have needed much more time to learn the piece well. It would have been easier to play with the required flow and elegance if the piece was memorized, but time didn't permit that. Turning the pages took too much of the attention, and as usual the most difficult places are around the places you have to do that. I hope that I have captured some of the sweet moments, though. It is actually a very beautiful composition. |
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