What are you playing now?
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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.
@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 SonatineThere were probably more.
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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.
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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.
@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.
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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.
@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:
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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.
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Shifting gears back to a Chopin waltz. I met with the new teacher and he suggested i do the Op64. No 2 or the Op69. No. 2.
Both are wonderful pieces. Not sure which one I will be choosing. I will be going through both of them over the next few days to figure out which one to learn first.
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Neil Young's "Philadelphia."
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