2022 our 25th year online!

Welcome to the Piano World Piano Forums
Over 3 million posts about pianos, digital pianos, and all types of keyboard instruments.
Over 100,000 members from around the world.
Join the World's Largest Community of Piano Lovers (it's free)
It's Fun to Play the Piano ... Please Pass It On!

SEARCH
Piano Forums & Piano World
(ad)
Who's Online Now
68 members (antune, Colin Miles, anotherscott, AndyOnThePiano2, benkeys, brennbaer, APianistHasNoName, AlkansBookcase, Charles Cohen, 11 invisible), 1,846 guests, and 325 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Hop To
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
B
babaz Offline OP
Full Member
OP Offline
Full Member
B
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
Hi !

I have recently recorded this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZUwy8bQ3w

Please comment it !

Joined: May 2007
Posts: 10,856
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Offline
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 10,856
And you're still in too much of a hurry.

Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,906
Gold Subscriber
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Offline
Gold Subscriber
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,906
While this piece is certainly open to varying interpretations as far as tempo is concerned, I tend to agree with keyboardklutz that this is played much too fast. If not played too fast, it sounds as though it's played too fast; it sounds rushed. There seems to be no attention to phrasing, the subtle relaxing at the end of the phrase that lets the long cantilena "breathe" the way a singer would make it breathe. The dynamics also seem to be very limited, from mp to mf. It tends to have no colour; it sounds very monochromatic.

From a technical standpoint, I don't hear all the inner notes of the "murmuring" accompaniment. That accompaniment, which has always to be subservient to the melody, should - indeed, must - with careful dynamics, help shape the melody. It's that shaping of the melody and the lack of phrasing that I find in greatest need in this recording.

Regards,


BruceD
- - - - -
Estonia 190
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
B
babaz Offline OP
Full Member
OP Offline
Full Member
B
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
Thank you.

I'll listen your version.

Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
B
babaz Offline OP
Full Member
OP Offline
Full Member
B
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
Cher BruceD,

J'ai pu lire dans votre profil que vous fûtes jadis professeur de français. Pouvons-nous communiquer dans cette langue ?

Le cas échéant, je dois dire que j'ai enregistré à de nombreuses reprises ce morceau, pour parvenir à un "jet" à peu près "acceptable". Ma patience s'était presque épuisée... D'où sans doute cette extrême platitude ?

Je vous remercie

Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,906
Gold Subscriber
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Offline
Gold Subscriber
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,906
babaz :

(English translation below for non-French readers)

La grande difficulté pour ceux d'entre nous qui ne sont pas professionels et qui n'ont pas á notre disposition une salle d'enregistrement avec le matériel nécessaire pour corriger les petites fautes et pour modifier les phrases mal tournues, c'est que nous devons enregistrer d'un seul "jet" nos tentatives. J'ai eu la même difficulté que vous, n'ayant pas pu être totalement satisfait de mes efforts: chaque tentative avait quelques fausses notes, quelque chose qui me déplaisait. Recommencer à zéro chaque fois était décidément bien décourageant, et je ne sais pas combien de fois j'ai enregistré les différents morceaux que j'ai fini par présenter à Piano World, y compris cet Impromptu de Schubert.

Mais, en ce qui concerne votre enregistrment ce ne sont pas sur les petits détails que je souhaite que vous tourniez votre attention, mais plutôt sur votre interprétation globale du morceau.

Pour moi, ce morceau est une chanson, qu'elle soit chantée par la voix ou par un instrument à cordes; il doit être chanté, ce qui veut dire pour moi que les phrases musicales doivent monter, descendre, respirer et prendre haleine, quelque soit le tempo de l'ensemble. Voilà ce que je n’ai pas entendu dans votre enregistrement. Je crois, en partie, du moins, que vous pressez un peu trop le tempo.

La plus grande difficulté dans l’interprétation de ce beau morceau est d’établir un bel équilibre à trois niveaux différents entre 1) la mélodie 2) les notes de base et 3) l’accompagnement en sextolets - ce dernier doit aider à mettre en relief - par sa constante murmure délicate - la mélodie, sans la dominer mais sans disparaître, non plus.

Ceci dit, n’oubliez pas que je ne suis qu’un amateur de musique de piano - aucune formation professionnelle; cette critique n’est, en effet, que mes opinions et impressions peronnelles. Il n’est pas nécessaire que vous soyez d’accord avec ce que je dis.

(Translation for non-French readers) The great difficulty for those of us who are not professional musicians and who don’t have a recording studio available where we can correct minor errors is that we are obliged to record our efforts in a single take. I had the same difficulty as you, not ever being totally satisfied with each try; each one had some wrong notes or something that didn’t satisfy me. I don’t know how many times I re-recorded each piece I put on Piano World, including this Schubert Impromptu.

But it’s not in the details that I was addressing my comments on your performance but rather on the overall view of the work.

For me, this piece is a song, whether it be sung by the voice or by a stringed instrument; it must “sing” which means, for me, that the phrases have to rise, fall, and breathe, whatever the overall tempo. This is what I did not hear in your recording.

The greatest interpretive difficulty of this piece is that one has to establish three levels: 1) the melody, 2) the bass notes that give the foundation and 3) the mumuring accompanying figure which must support and highlight the melody without every dominating it our without losing detail.

Having said all this, please remember that I, too, am just an amateur music-lover - no professional training; these observations are nothing more than my personal observations and opinions; you don’t necessarily have to agree with them.

Regards,


BruceD
- - - - -
Estonia 190
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
B
babaz Offline OP
Full Member
OP Offline
Full Member
B
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 36
Merci pour votre réponse, et pour votre patience.

Que pensez-vous de la version de Brendel ? Elle semble être relativement dépourvue de "rubato", contrairement à la vôtre ?!? Pour lui, il semble s'agir d'une véritable extase.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkX4MyDeIqI&feature=related

Je vous remercie


Moderated by  Brendan, platuser 

Link Copied to Clipboard
What's Hot!!
Piano World Has Been Sold!
--------------------
Forums RULES, Terms of Service & HELP
(updated 06/06/2022)
---------------------
Posting Pictures on the Forums
(ad)
(ad)
New Topics - Multiple Forums
Estonia 1990
by Iberia - 04/16/24 11:01 AM
Very Cheap Piano?
by Tweedpipe - 04/16/24 10:13 AM
Practical Meaning of SMP
by rneedle - 04/16/24 09:57 AM
Country style lessons
by Stephen_James - 04/16/24 06:04 AM
How Much to Sell For?
by TexasMom1 - 04/15/24 10:23 PM
Forum Statistics
Forums43
Topics223,390
Posts3,349,223
Members111,632
Most Online15,252
Mar 21st, 2010

Our Piano Related Classified Ads
| Dealers | Tuners | Lessons | Movers | Restorations |

Advertise on Piano World
| Piano World | PianoSupplies.com | Advertise on Piano World |
| |Contact | Privacy | Legal | About Us | Site Map


Copyright © VerticalScope Inc. All Rights Reserved.
No part of this site may be reproduced without prior written permission
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.