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Post by nowhereman on Oct 18, 2023 17:53:59 GMT -5
Your opinion of this piece? Heh. It's okay. I have it in the collection. Bach is definitely not my first choice though. My favorite pieces by Bach are probably the toccata and fugue - Halloween is coming up - and his Brandenburg concerto no. 4. But I haven't listened to either in at least a couple years.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 18, 2023 20:04:12 GMT -5
Impress your friends and family with this piece, Chiarina (from Carnaval, Op. 9 No. 11) by Robert Schumann. They'll go "Bravo!" and "Encore!"
It's not a difficult piece to learn and play. Takes time though.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 19, 2023 21:43:02 GMT -5
This prelude is one of my favorites. It's one of the last "classical" pieces I learned before moving on to jazz. (I never bothered to learn the fugue part.)
The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book I), No. 9, in E-Major, BWV 854.
The Prelude occurs in the first 1:23 of this video.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2023 21:45:24 GMT -5
Haydn is my favorite classical composer.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 19, 2023 21:46:46 GMT -5
Haydn is my favorite classical composer. No he isn't.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 20, 2023 14:18:34 GMT -5
One of the last pieces I tried to learn before switching to jazz. I never quite finished it.
Menuet (from Suite Bergamasque, by Claude Debussy). The Menuet is the 2nd of 4 pieces in Suite Bergamasque. The 3rd piece is the famous Claire de Lune.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 20, 2023 15:02:20 GMT -5
Minuet in G (from Notebook for Anna Magdalena by Bach), BWV 114 My very first piece. I played around with the piano by myself, learning music notes and theory, and how they correspond to the keys on the piano. So, I had some familiarity with the piano before my very first "official" lesson by my teacher. I explained to her my situation and she assigned me this Minuet in G. So, that week, I learned by rote how to play this piece from beginning to end. During the lesson the following week, I impressed my teacher with the Bach piece. Then, she tested me. She picked a random measure and asked me to play the piece from there. Holy f---! I couldn't do it! My muscle memory worked from the beginning of the piece to the end, but not from the middle. Really surprising phenomenon. She told me this meant I didn't "really know" this piece. She's probably right. Now, whenever I practice (even in jazz) I start from random locations. Have to confess I played this piece once upon a time.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 20, 2023 15:16:31 GMT -5
Minuet in G (from Notebook for Anna Magdalena by Bach), BWV 114 My very first piece. I played around with the piano by myself, learning music notes and theory, and how they correspond to the keys on the piano. So, I had some familiarity with the piano before my very first "official" lesson by my teacher. I explained to her my situation and she assigned me this Minuet in G. So, that week, I learned by rote how to play this piece from beginning to end. During the lesson the following week, I impressed my teacher with the Bach piece. Then, she tested me. She picked a random measure and asked me to play the piece from there. Holy f---! I couldn't do it! My muscle memory worked from the beginning of the piece to the end, but not from the middle. Really surprising phenomenon. She told me this meant I didn't "really know" this piece. She's probably right. Now, whenever I practice (even in jazz) I start from random locations. Have to confess I played this piece once upon a time. It's a staple among all beginner piano students.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 20, 2023 20:14:34 GMT -5
just finished enjoying two works you don't hear too often: Beethoven Triple Concerto recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic and Brahms Double Concerto courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra on the EMI Classics label.
Good stuff.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 21, 2023 1:54:31 GMT -5
Utter panic by pianist Maria Joao Pires as the orchestra starts to play one Mozart piano concerto while she was expecting a completely different one. All those hours of practice for the wrong concerto! So, they could either just cancel the concert or just go on full steam ahead. You can just see the emotion in Pires in this real life nightmare. She had to rely on her memory of this piano concerto to get through the concert. Just incredible!
Begins around the 0:40 mark until the 3:34 mark.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 21, 2023 16:41:05 GMT -5
The Little Shepherd (from Children's Corner by Claude Debussy)
When I entered the "late intermediate" stage of my piano lessons, the first set of pieces I had to learn was Children's Corner by Debussy. The title gives the impression this little booklet of piano music is for children (to be played by children). Hardly. These pieces, though not incredibly difficult, provide numerous challenges.
In "The Little Shepherd," the fifth (of six) pieces in this set, I found in my copy the markings of my piano teacher. In the bars corresponding to this video's 1:28-1:40 mark (roughly), my teacher wrote (in his handwriting) "Mozartian!" I remember asking him what this meant but I forgot what he said. But I believe it has something to do with the fact that this type of dramatic ascending phrase is commonly found in Mozart's music.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 22, 2023 17:34:03 GMT -5
Mozart Piano Sonata No. 17 (K.570), III. Allegretto
Just the third movement. I didn't bother with the first and second movements because they sounded boring. The third movement is a really really fun piece to learn and play -- quite possibly in my Top 5 most FUN classical pieces. Your fingers will love you. I learned it by slowly but steadily increasing the tempo over the course of a few days. Once you get all the notes memorized and you're playing on instinct, that's when it gets exhilarating.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 22, 2023 17:44:13 GMT -5
As a piano student, my teachers often told me to interpret each piece in my own unique way to kind of "make it my own." But I found that difficult given I was just taking afternoon piano lessons for recreational purposes only and I wasn't a hardcore music student at a music school. 100% of the time, I went out to the library, listened to various versions of the piece I was learning, picked the one that sounded "best" (to me), and tried to mimic that. There was no personal interpretation whatsoever -- at least consciously. It was all about copying what someone else did. It was essentially, I'd listen to a passage and I'd go, "Oh, THAT'S how it's supposed to sound!" then I'd try to duplicate that sound, if at all possible.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2023 10:58:46 GMT -5
Piano Concerto No. 26, III. Allegretto (K. 537) by Wolfgang Mozart
The third movement was used in a Busch Gardens1 commercial in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Per the commercial, the park seemed very lively and gave an aura of "fun." I liked the tune when I first heard it in the commercial but never knew what it was because I didn't know any classical music by name except for "Fur Elise."2 I eventually found the name by accident when I purchased all of Mozart's piano concertos on CD in the mid-1980s.3 I played it one night and was like, "Hey! Wait a second! That's the Busch Gardens commercial!!!"
--- 1 It's a theme park in Tampa (FL), Williamsburg (VA), Van Nuys (CA), and Houston (TX). Then, the Houston and Van Nuys park closed which left only Tampa and Williamsburg.
2 Ludwig van Beethoven. My sister started playing the piano when she was 7 or 8. She doesn't play anymore.
3 Though I goofed around with the piano most of my life, I never started formal lessons until the mid-1980s. Then, I went full steam ahead.
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Post by nowhereman on Oct 24, 2023 21:42:23 GMT -5
Enjoying a nice recording of Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 3 on the radio. For a while it was one of my favorite pieces. Could not get enough of it. If you ever have a chance to see it performed live, buy the ticket. It's worth it.
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