What are you playing now?
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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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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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@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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@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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Education is extremely important.
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@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:
Link to video"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
I'm saddened we don't have the leaders we need. I'm frightened we may have the leaders we deserve.
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@George-K said in What are you playing now?:
@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:
Link to videoWatched that a few days ago, thanks George. I love those 3 vs 2s. Can't sight read them musically, but once they're up to speed they are marvelous.
Education is extremely important.
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Education is extremely important.
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I'm working on Bach's Art of Fugue, First Contrapunctus. The first few lines came along easily enough, and I thought "ah, I can hack this out in a couple of weeks." Then I got into the bramble of the work - and I've worked a couple of weeks just sorting through fingering for a few lines. It's coming along, but while a short piece, it's gonna be a slower slog than I imagined.
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