What are you playing now?
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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?
wrote on 14 Feb 2023, 04:40 last edited by@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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wrote on 15 Feb 2023, 04:18 last edited by
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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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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wrote on 16 Feb 2023, 02:48 last edited by
Speaking of Bach, I am revisiting the English Suites. Currently reading the Gavotte II from Suite 6 BWV 811.
Fun little piece.
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topic:timeago-later,15 days
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wrote on 2 Mar 2023, 16:05 last edited by Horace 3 Feb 2023, 16:09
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:
Link to video
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topic:timeago-later,4 months
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wrote on 18 Jun 2023, 16:51 last edited by
Continuing work on the Pathetique. I'm about ⅔ of the way through the 3rd movement. It goes quickly because the rondo theme is repeated so many times!
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wrote on 18 Jun 2023, 16:53 last edited by
Beethoven or Billy Joel?
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wrote on 18 Jun 2023, 17:28 last edited by
Working on two Schubert Impromptus from Op 90
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wrote on 18 Jun 2023, 17:35 last edited by
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.
Link to videowrote on 18 Jun 2023, 17:49 last edited by@Horace said in What are you playing now?:
Finished the f minor invention, and living with it every day as an ongoing project
Remember JazzyD from the 1st incarnation of the Coffee Room?
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wrote on 18 Jun 2023, 23:24 last edited by
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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topic:timeago-later,16 days
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wrote on 5 Jul 2023, 00:51 last edited by George K 7 May 2023, 00:53
Started working on this about 2 weeks ago. Exposition is about 75% under my fingers.
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wrote on 5 Jul 2023, 03:55 last edited by
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.
wrote on 5 Jul 2023, 12:05 last edited by George K 7 May 2023, 12:10@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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topic:timeago-later,about a month
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The first movement of D664 is wonderful, and Richter has a decent tempo for it. That's a great choice.
wrote on 9 Aug 2023, 00:32 last edited by@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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topic:timeago-later,9 days
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wrote on 17 Aug 2023, 23:02 last edited by kluurs
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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topic:timeago-later,30 days
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wrote on 16 Sept 2023, 15:49 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 16 Sept 2023, 16:07 last edited by@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 -
@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 videowrote on 16 Sept 2023, 16:12 last edited by@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.
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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.
wrote on 16 Sept 2023, 16:34 last edited by@Horace said in What are you playing now?:
Can't sight read them musically, but once they're up to speed they are marvelous.
There's a passage in the Schubert D960 that always vexed me...
But in the D664 I never had a problem.
