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@Horace said in What are you playing now?:
Been working on the 9th two part invention today.
The inventions are fun...and frustrating. I have the Bd under my fingers. The A-minor works - sometimes.
I always found the F major fun, and tricky.
@George-K said in What are you playing now?:
@Horace said in What are you playing now?:
Been working on the 9th two part invention today.
The inventions are fun...and frustrating. I have the Bd under my fingers. The A-minor works - sometimes.
I always found the F major fun, and tricky.
A Minor was always one of my favorites. But something about 9 is drawing me in. I never found a three part invention that I really liked, oddly.
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I've been trying to get my hands back in shape and playing WTC Bk1 c-minor prelude along with the last movement of Beethoven op 57. Why play Hanon when one can work on these and get a great workout?
@kluurs said in What are you playing now?:
I've been trying to get my hands back in shape and playing WTC Bk1 c-minor prelude along with the last movement of Beethoven op 57. Why play Hanon when one can work on these and get a great workout?
I had a conversation with Mark J. about this. His teacher always said not to bother with Hanon and other exercises.
If you can play the pieces that you mentioned, you’re going to get all the exercise that you need!
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Bach outsmarted all the copy editors with the ninth invention. I have three different editions and the accidentals don’t agree between any two of them.
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I resurrected the Goldberg Aria, and was watching this:
Link to videoI was struck by how his piano sounds. I mean by how not really great his piano sounds. Maybe it's just my subjective opinion. But I do notice that real pianists don't care as much about the piano as we dilettantes. Denk's piano would drive me nuts. My wife randomly met a piano professor at Rice who we've been out with a couple times. She thinks the whole fascination with this or that instrument is useless. She didn't know how big her Boston grand at home was. But she rolls her eyes when anybody thinks anything is the piano's fault. Unless it's not in tune.
Then there's Glenn Gould's immortally bad piano:
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Finished the f minor invention, and living with it every day as an ongoing project. Now working on the c# minor fugue from WTC1, an all time favorite of mine. The last entrance of the main subject at 4:59 is my favorite moment in the keyboard repertoire.
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Finished the f minor invention, and living with it every day as an ongoing project. Now working on the c# minor fugue from WTC1, an all time favorite of mine. The last entrance of the main subject at 4:59 is my favorite moment in the keyboard repertoire.
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The Chopin Scherzo #2 (op 31) is coming along there are 4 pages that need work to bring them up to something approaching tempo. It will take a few more weeks to get it solid. I'm also making progress on the Rachmaninov Liebesleid which I've been working on bringing back into repertoire. It also will need some time.
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Started working on this about 2 weeks ago. Exposition is about 75% under my fingers.
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The first movement of D664 is wonderful, and Richter has a decent tempo for it. That's a great choice.
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The first movement of D664 is wonderful, and Richter has a decent tempo for it. That's a great choice.
@kluurs said in What are you playing now?:
Richter has a decent tempo for it
Yes, in fact, listening to many recordings of it, I find that I'm being too aggressive with tempo. I need to slow it down.
Also, struggling with measure 33 - the best way to finger it. Doing it all in the left hand is, for me, awkward.
I'm thinking play the 2nd three notes of the first triplet with the right hand, the 2nd triplet with the left, etc., ending with left hand 3rd finger on the last note.
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The first movement of D664 is wonderful, and Richter has a decent tempo for it. That's a great choice.
@kluurs said in What are you playing now?:
The first movement of D664 is wonderful, and Richter has a decent tempo for it. That's a great choice.
90% done with it (1st movement) - I can do the octave runs about...90% of the time.
3rd movement is...tricky.
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George - I was at a masterclass on D664 with Adele Marcus. I taped it - but sadly - it's difficult to capture because Marcus was not separately miked. Adle Marcus was one of the more famous teachers at Juilliard - taught Stephen Hough, Byron Janis, Tzimon Barto, and several other well known pianists. She was a student of both Josef and Rosina Lhevinne. It was recorded about 40 years ago.
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Finished the c# minor fugue from WTC1. My teacher says my interpretation reminds him of Richter's, which I must say is a VERY high compliment to Richter. Now I'm working on the prelude, and the famous Brahms 118.2.
@Horace said in What are you playing now?:
the famous Brahms 118.2.
That's fun to play. I always found the polyrhythm section a bit of a challenge - I do with all polyrhythms.
You might find this interesting:
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