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I am pleased to present our 79th Adult Beginner's Forum Quarterly Recital! Please refrain from commentary in this thread. Take any and all comments to the Comment Thread for Recital 79Please note that there are 4 levels of comments that can be requested: - No Comments Please! - Polite Comments only: no suggestions for improvement please. - General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement. - Critical Comments: Anything goes! Please respect the wishes of the performers and make appropriate comments. Thank you! In addition to the recordings below, we have an online streaming player. Just click on the link to hear all the recital pieces. Online Streaming PlayerHere are zip files of all the recordings: zip1.zipzip2.zipzip3.zipzip4.zipAnd here is the index to past recitals: ABF Recital IndexThanks for listening! AGAIN: DO NOT REPLY OR POST ON THIS THREAD! Sam
Last edited by Sam S; 08/15/25 06:14 AM.
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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | iternabe | | From: | North Carolina USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 18 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/L0_kXHmfGzg | | Title of piece: | Invention No. 6 (Section A) | | Composer: | J.S. Bach | | Duration: | 01:39 | | Source of music: | Henle | | Instrument used: | Kawai MP11SE + Pianoteq 8.4.3 Shigeru Kawai SK-EX Ryuyo | | Recording method: | Audio: digital out of Pianoteq. Video: OBS Studio + Webcams | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | I was having difficulty playing left hand louder while keeping the right hand soft in a passage in a Clementi Sonata. My teacher (forum name Seeker) then chose this Bach Invention to teach me how to play two voices. I instantly fell in love with this piece.
I still remember how difficult it was when I first tried to put hands together for the open four bars. My teacher spent almost a full lesson to help me counting, and play against a very slow metronome to get the rhythm correct. Little by little, it came together. Seeker set a high standard for me on how it should be played. He taught me many details on how to articulate the voices in each hand, how to phrase, and how to bring out the dance quality in those 32nd notes, etc.
This recording of section A is made after six weeks of hard work. I wouldn’t have thought I can play something like this if not for Seeker’s excellent teaching, and for the Peter Feuchtwanger’s Piano Exercises which I am learning from Seeker and now practice every day. |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | Wie Waldi | | From: | Bavaria (near Germany) | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3½ years of active self learning | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/o0aYUDbbZSQ | | Title of piece: | Perfect | | Composer: | Ed Sheeran | | Duration: | 04:25 | | Source of music: | Beginner Piano Tutorial | | Instrument used: | Kawai CN-29 (Jazz Clean + slow strings for more schmaltz) | | Recording method: | Headphone-jack to PC (Audacity) | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | Actually, I wanted to play this song for the recital with the pop-music theme. Something very recent, something with a huge time gap from my other song, something that screams pop-music, and something at a total beginner level. Fortunately, I found a simple YouTube tutorial for a song that was 191 weeks in the UK charts, becoming the second-highest-charting hit of all time.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a decent recording for the recital in time, so I postponed it to the next quarterly recital - I hope you will still enjoy this.
Btw, I am also one of those who received a copyright warning on YouTube after uploading. Genuinely, that means I played perfect  |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXPd9WxFUw | | Title of piece: | Etrude #6 | | Composer: | Philip Glass | | Duration: | 05:00 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP-GP295 | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | I've played this piece for many years on and off and thought I would give it one more try trying to get it up to a speed I like. I'm STILL not there. Plus I made a number of flubs. Such is life. |
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | Yamaha Sierra (Sierra Schmidt) | | From: | Bisbee, Arizona | | Experience: | 17 years, Lessons 7.5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/HTgvcGWR2tI | | Title of piece: | Sweet Dreams op.39-21 | | Composer: | Piotr Tchaikovsky | | Duration: | 04:18 | | Source of music: | https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b5/IMSLP07996-Tchaikovsky_-_Op.39_-_Album_for_the_Young.pdf | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CLP-440 console digital piano | | Recording method: | Recorded onto a USB thumb drive as a WAV file, synchronized to iMovie and converted to mp3 on Apple GarageBand for MacOS | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | Here is my piano cover of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s Sweet Dreams op.39-21. There are several rhythm mistakes. I am playing this for the Piano World Adult Beginners Forum Quarterly Recital No.79. |
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | Many enjoyable years playing piano. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Allegretto, G Major | | Composer: | Mendelssohn | | Duration: | 02:27 | | Source of music: | Mendelssohn, Six Christmas Pieces Op. 72 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1 Grand Piano | | Recording method: | Audacity with Audio Technica Microphone | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | I'm working through Mendelssohn's Op. 72. This is the third piece in the collection. I intend to finish all 6 pieces. It takes me longer than the rest of you to learn pieces to share on this forum. |
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | dumka1 | | From: | Illinois, US (originally from Ukraine) | | Experience: | Lots, with some pauses | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Asturias (Leyenda) | | Composer: | Isaac Albéniz | | Duration: | 06:22 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H2N | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | This was a fun piece to learn. At first I didn’t think I’d be able to do it, and I’m still struggling with some jumps, as you’ll hear, but overall I’m happy with my progress on it. I started rushing a little bit during the repeated section and lost concentration on the jumps, so it’s far from mistake-free but still somewhat enjoyable, I hope. |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | rach3master | | Experience: | 28 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/WZ92sTD4qT0?si=CFAmHqRdiRS3ivD7 | | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/@rach3master | | Title of piece: | City Ruins | | Composer: | Keiichi Okabe, arr. by Hiroyuki Nakayama | | Duration: | 04:54 | | Source of music: | transcribed from piano album | | Instrument used: | NY Steinway D | | Recording method: | Schoeps cardioid and omnidirectional mics --> Reaper | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | This is an arrangement of a theme from the video game NieR: Automata, repackaged into a solo piano album. In the game, this is one of the tracks with different variations of vocals and instrumentation that blend seamlessly into each other based on environmental cues and story events. There are even 8 bit versions of these tracks that play during hacking sequences.
The arrangement begins very faithfully, reproducing all the elements of the OST in a tricky right hand voicing challenge, before becoming more pianistic with a few harmonic detours. |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | rogerch | | From: | California | | Experience: | 50+ years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/_U3gtC0jqbw | | Title of piece: | Looking Around | | Composer: | rogerch | | Duration: | 03:46 | | Source of music: | Improvised | | Instrument used: | Steinway M | | Recording method: | Zoom H1essential | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement |
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | MarieJ | | From: | Brisbane Australia | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Flying solo on my piano journey since December 2011 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://vimeo.com/1108580947 | | Title of piece: | Burning | | Composer: | Ludovico Einaudi | | Duration: | 05:02 | | Source of music: | ‘In a Time Lapse’ sheet music album | | Instrument used: | Kawai ES110, Pianoteq 8 (Standard) | | Recording method: | WAV file recorded by Pianoteq, converted to MP3 with Audacity | | Comment Policy: | Polite Comments only: no suggestions for improvement please. | | Additional info: | Life got in the way this quarter, and time ran out. This piece was a last-minute switch - every recording of my intended piece was worse than the one before. Even the least-worst, my usual fall-back position, was a disaster. So I decided on yet another Einaudi gem that hasn’t previously appeared in a PianoWorld Recital.
Clearly, ’Burning’ still needs a lot of work. It’s way longer than my usual choices, providing endless opportunities to make slips. I took my cue from Einaudi’s ‘In a Time Lapse - Live from Home’ performance, rather than following every note in the published sheet music. |
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | AndresVel | | From: | COL, CH | | Experience: | 5 years, 3 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/36mHxt5R0ts | | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/@andresklavierraum | | Title of piece: | Sonatina, BB 69 | | Composer: | Bela Bartok | | Duration: | 05:44 | | Source of music: | Music sheet, Henle | | Instrument used: | Mason and Hamlin Model 50 | | Recording method: | Rode MP5, Blue Yeti, Scarlett 2i2, Ableton Live Lite 10. video on GoPro 8 | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | I am glad to return to the PW recitals after having missed the last three editions. The last months have been full of changes on many aspects of my life, mostly positive ones, which directly impacted my time at the piano. I have managed to hang in there with my practice time, but I really could not find the time to record and edit any piece in that time. That means that some pieces I have worked on in that time ended up being unrecorded (recording them is usually how I tell myself to move on to something else), but I guess that is part of it.
The piece I am submitting this time was a big project that ended up being extremely fun and fruitful. I very much like Bartók’s music, so I suggested my teacher to work on this Sonatina. I like multi-movement works to have as large projects, and this seemed to fit perfectly. This piece, as basically most of those by Bartók, is largely influenced by folk music. As mentioned in the notes of the Henle edition, in this particular case, each movement is inspired by village instrumentalist, picking up traditional Romanian dances in each one of them. The first movement represents two bagpipers taking turns to play the two main themes of the movement, on a dance form called ardeleana. The second movement comes from a piece played to Bartók by a farmer violinist on the lower violin strings to try to mimic the bear’s sound. The last movement contains two folk melodies played to Bartók by farmer violin players on a dance form called babaleuca. The piece is overall very fun to play but it presents a lot of challenges. Bartók was always very meticulous with his writing. His scores are full of articulations and dynamic marks, so paying attention to everything is very challenging and requires a lot of slow practice. The third movement was the one that took me the most time to polish. It requires a very good sense of rhythm to not lose pulse during the several ritardandos and accelerandos that appear often. I could not get that movement to the indicated tempo. It should sound way faster if you check it out online. However, I am pleased with the outcome as I could replicate almost everything we have been working on with my teacher in the past months.
In these past months I also started to take part on the student recitals organized by my teacher. I had not performed in front of people before, so it has been challenging, but somehow it felt easier for me to do it like that than in front of the camera. I performed this Sonatina last June during the most recent of those recitals. Here, I tried recording it in full without stopping, but my favourite take of each movement did not belong to the same run. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it. I am experimenting with the recording setup, so for one movement I did not remove the front of the piano. Let me know what you think of the sound. Thank you in advance for listening. |
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | Ted Jones | | From: | Auckland, New Zealand | | Experience: | >70 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | The Parson's Fancy | | Composer: | Ted Jones | | Duration: | 12:08 | | Source of music: | Free improvisation | | Instrument used: | Weinbach | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | This extract starts about an hour into the improvisation I recorded two days ago. It is a bit longer than usual but the extended, contrasting cells and unaligned ostinatos struck me as worthy of my future attention. Those interested will find a gradually increasing pile of all my complete improvisations since 2006 here: https://archive.org/details/@superoso
Derek Andrews suggested I do it, and it certainly obviates the need to post people USB drives, but with 500 hours or so still to go the uploading process is rapidly losing its charm. |
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | jazztpt | | From: | UK | | Experience: | 49+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Rain | | Composer: | jazztpt | | Duration: | 02:42 | | Source of music: | Original composition | | Instrument used: | Roland HP507 Digital Piano | | Recording method: | Direct to piano then converted to MP3 in Audacity | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | It is called Rain for no particular reason and was originally written in 1989, this is a fairly recent piano version which I have been working on since the last recital. I had a lot of trouble recording this one, my usual aim of 2 takes max went out the window and I had frequent attacks of banana figures and sudden loss of memory lol. Anyway, it is what it is , thanks for listening. |
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | Rachtoven | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 7 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op.32 No. 12 in G-sharp Minor | | Composer: | Rachmaninoff | | Duration: | 02:53 | | Instrument used: | Kawai RX-3 | | Recording method: | LineAudio OM-1 mics placed closed to the soundboard in the curve of the piano. Audio sent to an SSL2 audio interface, with some added reverb. | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | This is perhaps my favorite piece by Rachmaninoff. To me, the opening bars evoke a peaceful morning winter landscape that quickly becomes dramatic, with many twists and turns before settling down to a quiet sunset.
This is by far the hardest piece I've attempted to learn, and there are different technical challenges every few bars. I've been working on this quite a long time and realize I need to continue polishing it, but I thought it was good enough to submit. |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | I played on and off from the last 20 years but more seriously the last 7 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://youtu.be/Z6XJ9IYZX4M | | Title of piece: | Theme from Piano concerto no. 1 | | Composer: | Tchaikovsky | | Duration: | 02:46 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-525 | | Recording method: | Two webcam and OBS Studio | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement |
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | TBell | | From: | USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Several years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://rumble.com/v6xd3le-tchaikovsky-morning-prayer-op.-39-no.-1.html | | Title of piece: | Morning Prayer Op. 39, No. 1 | | Composer: | Tchaikovsky | | Duration: | 01:17 | | Source of music: | imslp.org | | Instrument used: | Baldwin BP190 | | Recording method: | SE8 mics-->Mackie Mixer-->Computer-->Reaper | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | I found this easier to learn by looking at the intervals,usually played with both hands,and determining the resultant chord. |
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Riddler (Ed) | | From: | Massachusetts | | Experience: | Many, many, many. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | https://edsjazzpianopage.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Very Early | | Composer: | Bill Evans | | Duration: | 02:57 | | Source of music: | Lead sheet | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova | | Recording method: | Pianoteq | | Comment Policy: | General Comments only: Polite, supportive, suggestions for improvement | | Additional info: | Very Early is a beautiful ballad in 3/4 time written by jazz pianist Bill Evans, when he was a college student. It has been played often by many jazz musicians, and is now thought of as a jazz standard. I am playing unaccompanied. I did a brief solo. |
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | PianogrlNW (Ellen) | | From: | Seattle area | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude Op 16, No 3 | | Composer: | Scriabin | | Duration: | 02:39 | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Grand | | Recording method: | Zoom H2N | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | I find a lot of Scriabin pieces to be dark and sometimes impenetrable. But this short prelude has a sunnier character and I learned it as soon as I heard a friend play it. I think it's one the more accessible of his preludes. |
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | | From: | Madison, WI | | Experience: | 70+ years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Coin de Cemetiere, au Printemps | | Composer: | Deodat de Severac | | Duration: | 07:41 | | Source of music: | Sheet music - Rouart Lerolle | | Instrument used: | Yamaha 5' 7" Baby Grand | | Recording method: | TASCAM 40 320 Db | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | This piece is one of five from the piano suite "En Languedoc". Languedoc is a region in southern rance which borders Spain's Pyrenee Mountain to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the east. De Severac was born there of a noble family, and after obtaining his degree in Paris from the Schola Cantorum, he moved back to the region of his birth, from which he worked until his relatively short life ended at age 48. |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | mandan | | From: | Hungary, Budapest | | Experience: | 29 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/user/szendythoman/videos | | Title of piece: | Six Hungarian Folksongs no. 2 | | Composer: | Kadosa | | Duration: | 01:16 | | Source of music: | Erna Czövek piano school for the VI. class of the music schools, Zeneműkiadó Vállalat 1965 | | Instrument used: | Korg EC-310 velocity sensitive, semi-weighted hammer action digital piano (1998), Pianoteq Bösendorfer VC Classical recording preset. | | Recording method: | Voicemeeter Potato (wav 44,1 khz 16 bit), cut from the many takes with nero waveditor, converted with xilisoft ultimate (mp3 44,1 khz, 320 k) | | Comment Policy: | Critical Comments: Anything goes! | | Additional info: | The aim of the publication was to give hungarian music for the hungarian children after the second world war in 1946. Járdányi, Kadosa, Kassai, Kodály, Mihály, Ránki, Szabó, Székely, Szervánszky, Veress were asked to compose contempoarary pieces for the children. Kadosa was the piano teacher of Kocsis, Ránki, Jandó, Schiff, Kurtág, Kiss. |
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