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...on CD. At one point I had a brief love affair with this record. I know Maxwell Davies later recorded the piece himself (Collins Classics), but I only know the Rattle recording. Haven't listened to the...
...I was listening to Sibelius' Oceanides the other day in multiple versions, and it occured to me why this piece so often fails in performance and on recordings (and by 'fail' I mean 'doesn't make the i...
...ings), Cantelli and Casals excel and where Lenny falls short. Any conductor can show me the surface of a piece of music. I want to hear what is underneath the surface and the sonorities the composer h...
myself 'Georgia on my Mind'. This is quite a challenging piece for me, especially the left-hand. So many 4-finger chords!!! But getting back to my point there are some notations under the staff that I
Ruth Slenczynska's Practice Schedule For working up a new piece with special reference to pedaling
1. Read the new composition all the way through very slowly both hands together at least six times
...e 'brown' is actually the wood below? All the ivory covered keys that I've seen actually have 3 separate pieces on each key - the wide part of the keytop, the narrow part, and the front face. It seems...
What is the name of the piece of music that Karl Haas uses to begin his radio program?
Dwain Lee
I almost learned a piece by Turina, 'The Cave of the Dragon' from the Mallorca suite. Then I played it for a friend and all it earned was a really disgusted expression. That advised me to stay away...
...ay sell more than that. (I have mixed feelings about selling all of these.)
DVD PRICING: each DVD $30 apiece, BUT I will accept offers for any of these at $25 apiece until 11:59 PM Tuesday. Any $25 ...
... Erde [cond], Acad of Santa Ceciia PEARL 0199
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VANGUARD CLASSICS joins KOCH Masterpieces Line - 'Twofer' re-issues
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Mieczslaw Horszowski [pi...
...s, Book I transcribed for solo piano by Moszkowski and Etudes op. 91 by Moszkowski. I have yet to hear a piece by MM that I've never liked. Utterly charming music. How is his orchestral music?
For t...
....at Penn State U. Great performance. They played two encores: one a piece from the Nutcracker and a second overture of some sort. It was fabulous and I'd never heard it before. Valery announced wha
...ut recordings of Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3. I find it amazing that there are so many recordings of this piece that simply aren't very good (interpretively...
When I was playing more or less seriously, I think the piece I most enjoyed working on was Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. Lovely, challenging but not impossible, and no accompaniment required
I'm working on Chopin's Nocturne in F minor Op. 55 no. 1. How should this piece be pedaled? The score indicates a down pedal on beats 1 and 3 and up on 2 and 4, but this causes the melody notes to ble
...ecially the left hand) properly from a score. Its very irritating when i sit down wanting to play an old piece and i cant figure out how.
Do any of you know a website or method so that i could learn...
...icular piano before, and didn't have the good sense to play a scale or two on it before jumping into the piece. I got so scared of the strange feel of its una corda pedal that I didn't use it. Was ner...
... them with clear phrasing and steady, natural, unbroken rhythmic pulse throughout. . . understanding the piece completely, not only on a harmonic and technical level, but also on the emotional level t...
...y only be a few sentences to type in & email to me. I am trying to find out more about the origin of the piece, & it is a pretty obscure piece. I don't want the recording myself (yet) - just some/any ...
...record he made when he was in his mid-teens, where he plays the heck out of some difficult and beautiful pieces by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms. Does he play as well these days as he did th...
...vating him.
My own opinion as a self-taught intermediate level player is that as I don't know a single piece of music involving the C major scale in contary motion, this exercise seems like just a g...
...tunning performance from an 85 year old conductor. I am not a fan of 20th century music, but I like this piece very much. It was never released on CD in the US. Perhaps it is because the third had a r...
...y him. I borrowed a tape from a friend containing the Cello Conc, 2nd Cello Sonata, Sinfonietta #1 and 2 pieces for String Orch (the latter of which seems to be the same as the cello sonata. This is a...
I attach a very small MIDI file (785 bytes) containing some fragments of a piece for piano duet which has been annoying me for days. I think it is by Mozart and I should be most grateful if some kind
... composed in Leipzig). If you consider that Bach seems to have actually preferred the minor key (even in pieces that are seemingly set in the major key, large passages are really in minor) and thus ac...
Hi,
I remember reading a while back a book which illustrated how to analyze a piece for memorization. It use Beethoven's first piano sonata Op. 2 No. 1 in F Minor ('Little Appassionata'?) to illustr
I would like to know if it's important that a kid memorizes all of his pieces by heart. My son's wants him to play by heart only when he has a recital. For the rest of the time ( that is 9 pices out o
...n me.
Has anyone else experienced this sensation with the P200? It's almost as though there was a thin piece of wire loose in among the strings when they did the sampling - that's the best way I can...
...er, and have been playing piano and keyboards for most of my life. However I find it very hard to play a piece without having one hand follow or mirror the other (usually it's the left that copies the...
...ing? Is it worth four bucks? Just keep in mind, I'm not asking what is the definitive recording of these pieces. I'm just asking if it's decent enough recording to shell out cash for. If you can provi...
...eacher, she told me a 'trick' to make it sound better. It's bringing out the soprano voice stronger. The piece consits mostly of intervals in the RH, so this means I have to play the top notes in the ...
Why does some music have a fermata (pause) over a final rest at the end of a piece of music? What's the point in pausing on a rest if no music follows?
Thanks, Mr Bump
Has anyone heard of a composer with a name that sounds like this. My local station played a piece called 'Chaccone' and said it was written by the late 17th century composer by that name. It was an or
With my stringorchestra (amateurs) I want to study a piece by Mozart to get acquainted with hs elegant style. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik however and his Divertimenti KV137 etc. are to difficult for us, be
I recently went to a recital that ended with this piece and was reminded how enjoyable it is. My only recording of it is Bolet, which I like except for the coda and the lack of any truly soft dynamic
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