What are you playing now?

[Horace]

Thanks, Phibes and GK. That's my favorite of Bach's fugue too, George, though now I don't hear it as well because of the repetition. My teacher's favorite is the E major from book 2. I'm trying to understand why it's so great. I think my ear is not refined enough. I will learn it one of these days.

[mark]

I have been revisiting the Goldberg Variations. AGAIN! lol.

1st Variation measure 14 is the bane of my existence right now. I think it's the most difficult measure in this piece.

[jon-nyc]

Messing around with some of the Guaraldi Christmas pieces. Also been noodling around with some old faves, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, etc. I've been in the house a month now and it's nice to play the real piano again, so I just pick stuff up and read through it.

After xmas I'll probably take on something new.

[Horace]

I'm working on P&F in E Major from WTC2. Will probably perform it in April.

[jon-nyc]

Where?

[Horace]

Somewhere around Dallas. Maybe the same church as last time, or maybe not. I don't think my teacher uses the same venue every year.

[jon-nyc]

Oh ok a teacher’s recital. That’s cool.

[jon-nyc]

Back in the 2017-2020 period, Klaus and I would work on the same pieces together as motivation, like going to the gym with a friend. We’d exchange recordings, share progress, give advice, etc.

Well we decided to do it again.

We just started working on the Chopin B minor Scherzo and Debussy’s La Plus Que Lent.

[Mik]

Nice.

[Klaus]

Well, the main purpose for me is to have a cautionary tale about how not to practice or play.

[jon-nyc]

Yes I imagine when my recordings arrive you realize just how shit your banging at the piece has been.

[Horace]

I am working on Chopin nocturne 48.1. I doubt I will ever play it well, but I am not too concerned with that. I’ll wrestle some music out of it here and there, and it will be rewarding.

[LuFins Dad]

I am currently working on the piano part at the end of Layla…

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in What are you playing now?:

I am currently working on the piano part at the end of Layla…

I don't think I've ever made it to the end of that song. It starts well, but it just goes on and on for so long I end up hitting 'Next track'.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in What are you playing now?:

Back in the 2017-2020 period, Klaus and I would work on the same pieces together as motivation, like going to the gym with a friend.

Pieces that I can remember we did together:

Brahms 117/2
Scriabin 8/12
Chopin G minor Ballade
Rachmaninoff G# minor prelude (32/12)
Rachmaninoff A minor Etude Tableaux
Bach/Brahms Chaconne for the left hand
Debussy Arabesque
Ravel Sonatine

There were probably more.

[mark]

I started the Gluk piece. I have the first four measures coming along nicely.

I had my piano tuned yesterday and my tech has put me in touch with a new teacher who lives about 1 mile from me. I want to start taking lessons again.

[Horace]

Since nobody else here posts recordings I guess I will stop doing so as well. Especially if they are opportunities for inanities about all classical performances being essentially the same, (except Jon’s, which are inferior), or how hand and arm movements are affectations.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in What are you playing now?:

Since nobody else here posts recordings I guess I will stop doing so as well. Especially if they are opportunities for inanities about all classical performances being essentially the same, (except Jon’s, which are inferior), or how hand and arm movements are affectations.

I was going to post a video of my Yuja Wang, but I didn't want people to get it confused with Jon's thread about unfortunate names.

[jon-nyc]

@mark said in What are you playing now?:

I started the Gluk piece.

For the unfortunate among you that weren’t at the party on the 27th, he means the Melody from Gluck’s Orfeo, transcribed for piano by Sgambati. It’s one of the pieces I played.

Mark is playing off a copy of my Dad’s old score, complete with his hand-written ornamentations that he notated from Rachmaninoff’s recording:

Link to video

[kluurs]

The b minor Scherzo is fun - some repetition shortens it a bit. While I have the notes in my hands and much of it memorized, getting it secure at tempo may take a while.

I've been working on the Rachmaninof/Kreisler Leibesleid forever - and it's fully memorized - but I've never been pleased with my playing of it. I'm currently working on the Liszt/Schubert Ständchen. It sounds better on the digital than on the real piano - so I need to work on that a bit.