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I've been working on "Nice Work If You Can Get It".
The harmonies and chord changes are awesome.
I know it's not classical music, but the chords are classic.

20 january 2018

Every week I receive a newsletter about classical music. Very interesting, about composers, performers etc. This week I found something of the unknown Don Ignazio Cirri, an Italian baroque composer: Sonatas, written for organ (manual) but also fine for piano.

My favourite at this moment.....Sonata nr 3, G minor. Beautiful Larghetto, followed by an Allegro, powerful melody line and subtle 1/16 sentences. Last part a nice Andante......I like to share it....

Sonatas Cirri

(It's 23.53h.....but I will play it before I go to sleep )

What did you play today?

Best regards,
Johan B

Beethoven Op 14 No 2 practice to regain memory of this piece. Tomorrow Chopin Waltz Op 34r no 2. Things are coming along better than expected.

Just saw the Telemann suite that Johann posted link to and copied to Fourscore.

Wishing I could find Baroque keyboard for duet, but not arrangements. Any suggestions.

Few days ago copied Bach Inventions to Fourscore. Ive decided to give my brain a workout on these. I mostly avoid is music like the plague, even though I love the sounds. Somehow sightreading Bach gets my brain all twisted up!!!

Rach Prelude 23/4. I’m trying to get it in reasonable shape to play in mid-February. Why do I always leave the hardest section for last?

Recently started the Schubert Impromptu that is a theme and variations. For now I’m playing just the theme and 1 variation. This is a more straight-forward and joyful piece than the Rachmaninov. Yin and Yang.

I worked on the Allemande from the J.S. Bach French Suite in G. I have been trying for years to play Bach's music but, as Isabelle1949 says, you can't read or learn it hastily, so my efforts were always full of mistakes.

This time round I covered up everything except for the first half-measure and made myself take no notice of any notes other than the ones in the half measure. I played this many times, making sure I was completely accurate in the articulation and making sure I hit the correct notes always (or very almost always!). Once this half measure was ingrained I rewarded myself with another note.

It seemed as though this method would take forever, but it was surprisingly quick! It took me around three or four weeks to learn the whole piece, and with a huge amount more accuracy, awareness and nimbleness than I have come close to previously. It really made me focus minutely on technical and musical problems. It is definitely not perfect, but it is far better than I have every played Bach before.

Isabelle1949, what is Fourscore? (please excuse my ignorance!).

Johan B, thank you for posting your interesting links.

Pianopl, forScore is a free app (I think it was free or very inexpensive) that you can copy music to from the web. Most of what I find is at Petrucci or IMSLP. It is really a good app for me anyway.

Worked on my oldie, Beethoven op 14 no 2. The two agains three in first movement almost 100% back in my fingers and brain, so excited. Tomorrow Chopin op 34 no 2, need to get that one back too. Before long, Schuman and Mozart oldies. I need to find more time for duet music practice!!!

Today, Mozart Rondo D Major, Mozart K 501, secondo, Beethoven Op 14 no 2 first mvt through 2 against 3. 5 finger scales, hands together with cadences. Total time about 1 hour 45 min. Wishing I had another 2 or 3 hours later today to practice. Time is precious and there is never enough!!!

23 february 2018

Mmmm......for a long time I was not here.....

Last two days I played Haydn Piano sonatas and music from this book....
Haydn, Piano pieces II

In this book among others the Sonatas 'The last seven words of our Redeemer', nice to play these days. You can feel the suffering of Christ.
Haydn, The last seven words

But also nice menuets: 12 Menuette Hob IX:11 and parts of Symphonys and Stringkwartets.

What did you play today?

Best regards,
Johan B

Johann B, I'm playing Techinic is Fun Book 5-woohoo-I always liked these books and this series I learned as a child. I have been playing a Bob Seger Collection which has two kinds of music, two kinds of bass which is really interesting. I only play a little bit lately. It will kick in again, later. Linda

A country tune called “Banks Of the Ohio”, my first country song.

10 March 2018

Yesterday and today playing around in this book....so nice

Könemann; Alte Tanze (ed.Agnes Lakos)


or........Könemann, Alte Tanze

The book contents:

Allemande in A major, BWV 832/I [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Allemande in B minor, NULL [Froberger, Johann Jakob]
Allemande in G major, HWV 441/I [Handel, George Frideric]
Allemande in G minor, BWV 836 [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Bourree in A major, BWV 832/IV [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Bourree in A minor [Krieger, Johann]
Bourree in B minor [Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann]
Bourree in B-flat major [Pachelbel, Johann]
Bourree in C minor [Krebs, Johann Ludwig]
Bourree in D minor, TWV 32:2/II [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Bourree in F major, BWV 820/III [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Bourree in G minor [Stolzel, Gottfried Heinrich]
Bourree in in B-flat major [Graupner, Christoph]
Courante in C major, BuxWV 228/II [Buxtehude, Dietrich]
Courante in F major, HWV 488 [Handel, George Frideric]
Courante in G major [Froberger, Johann Jakob]
Courante in G major, HWV 441/III [Handel, George Frideric]
Courante in G major, BWV 829/III [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Courante in G minor [Zipoli, Domenico]
Deutsher Tanz in A m inor, D 783, Op. 33/10 [Schubert, Franz]
Deutsher Tanz in Am ajor, Hob:IX, No. 10/9 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Deutsher Tanz in B-flat major, Hob:IX, No. 10/5 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Deutsher Tanz in B-flat major, D 783, Op. 33/7 [Schubert, Franz]
Deutsher Tanz in B-flat major, D 783, Op. 33/6 [Schubert, Franz]
Deutsher Tanz in D major, Hob:IX, No. 10/1 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Deutsher Tanz in D major, D 783, Op. 33/5 [Schubert, Franz]
Deutsher Tanz in E-flat major, Hob:IX, No. 10/6 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/7 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/2 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/1 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/4 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/5 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/6 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in D major, D 529/8 [Schubert, Franz]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/1 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/2 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/3 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/4 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/5 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 83/6 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in G major, WoO 23 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Ecossaise in G major, D 529/3 [Schubert, Franz]
Gavotte in D [Rameau, Jean Phillipe]
Gavotte in D major [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Gavotte in F major, TWV 32:4/IV [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Gavotte in G major [Graupner, Christoph]
Gavotte in G major, HWV 441/VI [Handel, George Frideric]
Gavotte in G major, BWV 816-IV [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Gavotte in G minor, BWV 808/IV-V [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Gigue in A major [Dieupart]
Gigue in A major [Clarke, Jeremiah]
Gigue in B minor [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Gigue in C major, BuxWV 227/IV [Buxtehude, Dietrich]
Gigue in C major, HWV 589 [Handel, George Frideric]
Gigue in D minor [Scarlatti, Domenico]
Gigue in E minor [Mattheson]
Gigue in F-sharp minor [Pachelbel, Johann]
Gigue in G major, TWV 32:1/VI [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Gigue in G minor [Zipoli, Domenico]
Hornpipe in D minor [Purcell, Henry]
Hornpipe in D minor, HWV 461 [Handel, George Frideric]
Hornpipe in E minor [Purcell, Henry]
Loure in A minor, TWV 32:12/III [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Menuet in A minor [Purcell, Henry]
Menuet in A minor [Krieger, Johann]
Menuet in A minor, HWV 549 [Handel, George Frideric]
Menuet in a minor [Rameau, Jean Phillipe]
Menuet in B minor [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Menuet in B-flat major, TWV 34:8 [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Menuet in C major [Muffat, Georg]
Menuet in C major [Scarlatti, Domenico]
Menuet in C minor [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Menuet in C minor, BWV 813/V [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Menuet in D major [Rameau, Jean Phillipe]
Menuet in D minor [Lully, Jean Baptiste]
Menuet in D minor, BWV Anh. 132 [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Menuet in D minor [Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann]
Menuet in F major [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Menuet in F minor [Bach, Carl Philip Emmanuel]
Menuet in G [Rameau, Jean Phillipe]
Menuet in G major [Kirnberger, Johann Philipp]
Menuet in G major, (BWV Anh. 132) [Petzold, Christian]
Menuet in G major [Bohm, Georg]
Menuet in G major, BWV 843 [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Menuet in G minor, BEV 822/V, VII [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Menuet in G minor, (BWV Anh. 115) [Petzold, Christian]
Menuet in G minor [Mattheson]
Menuet in g minor, HWV 453/III-IV [Handel, George Frideric]
Menuet in G minor, BWV 842 [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Menuett in A major [Turk, Daniel Gottlob]
Menuett in A major, KV 15 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in A major, Hob:IX, No. 8/6 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Menuett in B-flat major, D 41/5 [Schubert, Franz]
Menuett in C major, KV 6 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in C major, Hob:IX, No. 8/1 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Menuett in C major, Hob:IX, No. 8/10 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Menuett in C major, D 41/2 [Schubert, Franz]
Menuett in D major, KV 7 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in D major, D 336 [Schubert, Franz]
Menuett in D minor [Mozart, Leopold]
Menuett in F major, KV2 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in F major, KV 5 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in F major, D 41/1 [Schubert, Franz]
Menuett in G major, KV 1 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
Menuett in G major, Hob:IX, No. 8/2 [Haydn, Franz Josef]
Passepied in A major, HWV 560 [Handel, George Frideric]
Passepied in B minor [Krebs, Johann Ludwig]
Passepied in D major [Anonymous]
Polonaise in F major, BWV Anh. 117a [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Polonaise in G major, (BWV Anh. 130) [Hasse, Johann Adolf]
Polonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 119 [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Polonaise in G minor, (BWV Anh. 125) [Bach, Carl Philip Emmanuel]
Polonaise in G minor, (BWV Anh. 123) [Bach, Carl Philip Emmanuel]
Rigaudon in A minor [Babell, William]
Rigaudon in C major [Purcell, Henry]
Rigaudon in C minor, TWV 33:13/III [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Rigaudon in D major [Krebs, Johann Ludwig]
Rigaudon in D major [Bohm, Carl]
Sarabande in B minor [Dandrieu, Jean-Francois]
Sarabande in B minor [Kuhnau, John]
Sarabande in B-flat, BWV 821/IV [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Sarabande in B-flat major [Pachelbel, Johann]
Sarabande in C minor [Graupner, Johann Christopher]
Sarabande in C minor [Couperin, Louis]
Sarabande in D minor, HWV 448/IV [Handel, George Frideric]
Sarabande in D minor, HWV 448/V [Handel, George Frideric]
Sarabande in D minor [Krieger]
Sarabande in E minor [Corelli, Arcangelo]
Sarabande in e minor [Mattheson]
Sarabande in E minor, HWV 438/II [Handel, George Frideric]
Sarabande in F major [Kuhnau, John]
Sarabande in F-sharp minor [Pachelbel, Johann]
Sarabande in G minor [Zipoli, Domenico]
Suite in A major, TWV 32:14 [Telemann, Georg Philipp]
Suite in C major, BuxWV 226 [Buxtehude, Dietrich]
Suite in D minor, HWV 437 [Handel, George Frideric]
Suite in G minor, HWV 451 [Handel, George Frideric]
Waltz in A flat-major, D 365, Op. 9/2 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in A-flat major, D 365, Op. 9/3 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in A-flat major, D 365, Op. 9/1 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in B minor, D 145, Op. 18/6 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in C major, Op. 779, Op. 50/2 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in C major, D 779, Op. 50/1 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in C major, D 969, Op. 77/11 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in D major, D 779, Op. 50/12 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in E-flat major, WoO 84 [Beethoven, Ludwig van]
Waltz in F major, D 969, Op. 77/10 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in G major, D 779, Op. 50/11 [Schubert, Franz]
Waltz in G major, D 145, Op. 18/5 [Schubert, Franz]

What did you play today?

Best regards,
Johan B

I played, Give Them All to Jesus. That's it.

12 march 2018

Hi there,

Today played a lot......my wife stays some days to my daughters....so plenty of time to play

In the book I told you some days ago I saw some works of Johann Ludwig Krebs. I decided to look at IMSLP.org if there was more.....and yes there was....

Krebs, Clavier übung II

And.....
Krebs, Clavier übung III

My baroque heart beats faster.......

Have a look and have a try......

Best regards,
Johan B