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40 | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | From: | Montreal | Avatar: | | Experience: | 13 | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | The Entertainer | Composer: | Scott Joplin | Duration: | 05:11 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 with Pianoteq | Recording method: | iMac | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I'll be back saturday for comments and listening to other submissions. |
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41 | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | From: | Iowa | Experience: | More than a few years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Twelve Variations on "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman" | Composer: | Mozart | Duration: | 03:46 | Source of music: | Alfred Edition of Twelve Variations by Mozart | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1 grand piano | Recording method: | Zoom H2 with audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I wasn't intending to submit any pieces but saw the extended time available and decided to play 4 more of the Mozart Variations that I submitted to Recital 50. I played Variations 3,6, 8 and 9 for this recital. They are so far from where I wanted them to be but got them recorded anyway because they are so fun to play. I did theme, 1,5,7 and ll last time. |
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42 | | Performer's name: | Keselo | From: | Netherlands | Experience: | 1 Year, 7 Months | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4yBOJb4Yo | Title of piece: | Bed-Time Story | Composer: | Khachaturian | Duration: | 01:59 | Source of music: | Children's Album, Book 2, No. 2 | Instrument used: | Steinbeck 130 Upright | Recording method: | Two microphones connected to a Scarlett 2i4 audio interface, audio captured through Audacity. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I could make 100 recordings and not be happy with the accompaniment. Playing a quiet, portato accompaniment to a waltz is tough...
The piece opens tranquilly, with the E that repeats three times. I tried to add to the effect by using the pedal, which I released once the ascending scales a third apart start. The sound gets gradually louder and when the C# in the right hand rings, our introduction is concluded and the bed-time story starts. It's a very light-hearted story, made clear by the light waltz. This introduction plus waltz make up the A section of the piece.
This A-section is played twice before some conflict arises in the form of the B-section. Luckily, whatever the problem was, it gets resolved quickly and we get back to our light waltz, this time as a modified A-section. There's a short moment of excitement, likely the conclusion to our story, before everything slows down and the ending is initiated.
The story ends much the same as it began; very tranquil, this time with an ascending broken A minor chord, followed by what can be described as the sound of two bells, their sounds distant and fading. |
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43 | | Performer's name: | SwissMS/Doris | From: | Costa del Sol Spain | Experience: | 10+ years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Sw2lGrA0U | Title of piece: | French Suite V - Gigue | Composer: | J. S. Bach | Duration: | 02:30 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Bosendorfer 214CV | Recording method: | ZoomQ4 to audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is one of the pieces that I will play for my ABRSM grade 8 in November. It is a three voice fugue in 12/8 time. The first section begins with the upper voice, and the second half begins with the lowest voice. I have played around quite a bit to develop an interpretation and tell a story weaving the voices in and out. It is quite a challenging little piece, both in terms of required speed, and clear articulation. I am happy with where the piece is musically, but I would still like to bring the piece up tempo about 20%, but it is not quite ready for that now. I opted for accuracy and expression over speed for this recording. Hopefully I can add more speed to the mix by November! |
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44 | | Performer's name: | PianogrlNW | From: | An island in Puget Sound | Experience: | I've lost track | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Sonata in B minor, K. 87 | Composer: | Scarlatti | Duration: | 03:12 | Source of music: | Sheet music | Instrument used: | Schimmel Grand | Recording method: | Zoom H2N | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I first discoverd this sonata many years ago when I heard an Alexis Weissenberg recording. Scarlatti wrote 555 sonatas! This sonata in B minor is one of his more recognized because Horowitz frequently performed and recorded it.
I learned this piece a couple of years ago and was never satisfied about how it sounded. I have been restudying it to develop better phrasing and a more musical sound. |
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45 | | Performer's name: | mel_lem (Melanie) | From: | Malaysia | Experience: | 12 years as a child. Restarted since December 2016. | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | https://soundcloud.com/mel_lem22/tracks | Title of piece: | Etude No. 7 | Composer: | Oscar Peterson | Duration: | 01:07 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-45 | Recording method: | Live audio recorded through line-in into Garageband running on iPad. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I came across this book with Jazz exercises, minuets, etudes and pieces composed by Oscar Peterson. This one is my favorite, and very different to what I was playing. Lots of finger twisters!! The trickiest part is the unison at the end, took me a long time to play it smooth. |
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46 | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | Experience: | 2 years of lessons in early teens, start playing for dancing w other instruments in '95, playing for seniors, et al, since about 2009. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | The Easy Winners | Composer: | Scott Joplin | Duration: | 07:22 | Source of music: | Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime, Lewis Pub | Instrument used: | Casio Privia 160 | Recording method: | keyboard to pc with audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Whew! It's not as bad as it could be I started this piece in January, just got it all by heart a week or so ago, and decided to not play it wimpily last night. There were 3 or 4 years when I was working a lot (how *do* those of you working full time do it?!?) that I didn't get to practice much. And boy did I lose a lot :| So with luck, a year later, I might be making a comeback. I spent the last year just trying to re-group my repertoire, and then decided new stuff should be something I love. So here it is. Hello, ragtime players! |
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47 | | Performer's name: | SleepyBear | From: | USA | Experience: | 4 | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Powder Snow | Composer: | Naoya Shimokawa | Duration: | 05:17 | Source of music: | Sheet Music with improvisational corrections to be more in line with the video's recording, since the sheet music is transcribed from the video with errors.
http://sperion.web.fc2.com/main.html | Instrument used: | Baby Grand Piano | Recording method: | From Iphone microphone to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This piece starts out very very slow and gradually builds up to a grand finale. It was such a pain to record because the very end of the piece trolls you, where it gets to almost Chopin etude difficulty, when the first half of the piece is like, grade 1 stuff. You could say the beginning ad the first half tries to make you imagine soft snow falling and then the ending is up to your interpretation. This song is from White Album 2, which is a story of unrequited love and cheating, so my interpretation of the ending is chaos, sadness, and then resolve + renewal at the very end. One of the characters in the story says that every time they look up into the sky at the snow falling, it reminds her of something she wants the most, that she can never have. Very deep stuff! |
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48 | | Performer's name: | Mr Super Hunky | From: | Arizona | Avatar: | | Experience: | 10+ home-noodler. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | All By Myself /Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | Composer: | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Duration: | 04:53 | Source of music: | Lead sheet | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Many popular songs have classical roots but it is not well known that Eric Carmen's composition "All By Myself" owes its classical roots to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. The song was revived and made popular by Celine Dion in 1996. It was one of her most popular recordings.
This is my improvised performance of this tune which is based upon the three artists mentioned. I hope you like it. |
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49 | | Performer's name: | peterws | From: | Northern England | Experience: | Many decades | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/7lPB1ieDyqk | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa3kVLPNqf5vxb3qw7NT0w?view_as=subscriber | Title of piece: | Far Away | Composer: | peterws | Duration: | 03:48 | Source of music: | Ear | Instrument used: | Pianoteq Bechstein | Recording method: | Memory stick from Pianoteq. Audacity bumps up the volume a tad, and gives me an mp3. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Just a few thoughts I had whilst searching for something completely different in my head, and failing again. I knew my Bach piece wouldn't be ready. It may never be ready (English Shrug) so; on with plan B. I also managed a plan C which is a bonus. Playing around with semi complex chords as a lead in to gentler stuff, where I play with a simple melody, and associated spin offs. I enjoy this sort of thing, seeing what I can get away with (to my ears ha ha) even if it all becomes a little hackneyed. And the Bechstein, for me, is the king of Pianoteq instruments at the moment. Might grab a Steingraeber soon. Managed to squeeze in a last minute improvement . . .I'm now 50 . . .(I wish!) . |
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50 | | Performer's name: | PikaPianist | From: | Brisbane, Australia | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAUtTH5f8qs | Title of piece: | Scene Romantique Op. 101, No. 5 | Composer: | Sibelius | Duration: | 03:48 | Source of music: | IMSLP | Instrument used: | Kawai CS7 + VI Labs Ravenscroft 275 VST | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is not very well known for his solo piano compositions. What a shame that these rare gems have fallen into obscurity.
The "Romantic Scene" has been described by Tawaststjerna as "perhaps the most perfect piece in the opus", and by Heinonen as "one of the most perfect gems in Sibelius's piano output".
This piece gripped me and wouldn't let go. I absolutely adore the passion and the unexpected modulations throughout. Furthermore, those mysterious diminished opening chords! My music theory is not the best, so I don't know how to describe a chord with a D-E-G-A# followed by a G-A#-C#-D. All I know is that it is amazing to behold.
I especially love Kyoko Tabe's interpretation, played on a Bosendorfer I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4K1Xf0jEg |
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51 | | Performer's name: | Yamaha G3 & P-80 | From: | 90 miles West of New Orleans | Experience: | self-teaching since the beginning of the recitals | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Tangerine | Composer: | Victor Schertzinger | Duration: | 01:24 | Source of music: | by ear | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 | Recording method: | Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I can't read fast enough to record a piece and I'm getting too old and lazy to memorize a piece. |
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52 | | Performer's name: | Ralphiano (Ralph) | From: | Texas | Experience: | 3 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9mbGSDZlFMhttp:// | Title of piece: | Prelude | Composer: | Alexandre Tansman | Duration: | 01:09 | Source of music: | Piano in Progress, Book 1, Alexandre Tansman | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX 760 | Recording method: | Pianoteq, Classical BA, converted to MP3 via Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I'm very happy for the deadline extension.
I recently bought a baby grand, and, I've been mired in building a studio for it and my digital. I've barely put my tools down over the last week. During that time I've become muscular and ham fisted, spending little time at the piano.
Today(Friday), I took a break from the construction project and tried to get my recital recording. It was ugly. What a brute I've become!
Luckily, I had previously made a recording to commemorate the occasion of opening a YouTube account, and I still had that. So, that is what I submitted.
This morning, Saturday, I woke up, made it to the piano, and peeled out a couple of nicer versions right off the bat. After a couple of pass throughs, it occurred to me that I should update my submission. So, I updated with one of this morning's efforts.
My primary focus, for the last year or so, has been playing without unnecessary tension. I continue to make progress on that front, with a steady procession of little revelations coming my way, each exposing previously undetected areas of physical tension in static or dynamic positions. It has been an exciting time for me.
The book this piece comes from has long been out of print. Fortunately, my public library participates in a worldwide sharing system, and they found a copy for me. I have had a CD recording of this book for quite some time, but had to wait a long time to get my hands on the book.
Thank you to Monica, Sam, and all the others who do the grunt work to keep these recitals running. These recitals are high points in my piano experience, I love participating.
Also, it's nice to have Mr. Super Hunky along. Thank you so much for generating the original idea that has grown into these ABF recitals.
I really, really really do welcome critique and feedback. I am self taught, and this forum is the major source of instruction and knowledge for me. So, all observations, ideas, and suggestions are very welcome. Critique is a great help to me. |
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53 | | Performer's name: | Schinl / Schin Loong | From: | Las Vegas | Experience: | Returning adult after many years playing as a child | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | http://openinkstand.com | Title of piece: | "Chopin" from Schumann's Carnaval | Composer: | Schumann | Duration: | 01:55 | Source of music: | Sheet music | Instrument used: | Kawai RX2 | Recording method: | Zoom H4n.. any ideas on how to remove the buzzing sound on the higher notes? | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I've only been working on this for a couple weeks, and have not had the chance to show my teacher. So you're hearing this without any polishing or guidance! She does recommend I record myself more often, so this recital is a wonderful opportunity to do so. Thanks for listening! |
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54 | | Performer's name: | cmb13 - Craig | From: | Florida | Experience: | 4.5 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/9ifbOVjUQ2M | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIXgv7Gl8Cb5SgqeqsQZNMQ/videos | Title of piece: | Well Tempered Clavier Prelude in C | Composer: | Bach | Duration: | 01:57 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Boston 118PE Upright Piano | Recording method: | Yeti Mic, Logitech c920, Mac with Quicktime | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I was not planning on partiicipating in this recital, as I was a little burned out from the past couple of recitals (50th and Debussy)...I took on some hard pieces that were above my level. I felt I needed a break from the pressure of recording perfection.
Today, 8/18/18, I wss looking through the forum and felt remorseful that I have not submitted anything, so I broke out the mic and recorded this in three takes - picked the best one and let it fly. It's not perfect, but it'll do.
My challenges with this piece are in getting the notes very even. I realize I'm a little off on timing, and sometimes I play a note a little too softly (typically the the 2nd note of the measure) on this piece. Smoothing it out is something I still have to work on. |
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55 | | Performer's name: | dddaaannn | From: | Seattle, WA, USA | Experience: | 36-year dabbler, three-time adult learner | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W67zvbhna8 | Home page link: | http://www.dansanderson.com/ | Title of piece: | Mignon, op. 68, no. 35 | Composer: | Robert Schumann | Duration: | 03:49 | Source of music: | The Royal Conservatory Celebration Series, 2015 Edition, level 6 | Instrument used: | Yamaha CLP-685 | Recording method: | Piano's built-in recording facility | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Another very last minute entry. I've been playing this piece for a few months but only decided to record it two hours before the deadline. You can see me decide on a tempo at the beginning of the video.
Tracking the melody of this piece is a bit tricky. Mine turned out OK, but there's more I could have done there. I just now discovered that Pavel.K recorded this for the previous recital, if you want to compare.
A friend gave me a hard time about how recording directly off the CLP-685 sounds artificial, so for this MP3 I added a compressor and some reverb. |
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