If interested in Scriabin, I'd suggest... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfggmQFaRi0 - Poeme Satanique....
How DARE you refer to Satie as an Impressionist?!? His music is not Impressionist in the slightest!!! He is quite literally classified as his own...
Well, a hearty congratulations is in order on your first baby then! Are you going to train her to be a great musician just like her mommy is? :D...
I really wouldn't consider Hamelin's recording to be too fast... Whenever I hear somebody play it much slower than that, I find myself getting...
That Alkan etude actually doesn't look that bad... or at least in the octave passagework. And in the section near the middle with the rapid...
LUCKY!!! :shock: Chiu is one of my favorite pianists by far, if only because of his magnificent Prokofiev interpretations. I have his complete...
Beautiful! Without a doubt, one of my top 3 favorite Chopin Etudes! :D I personally think you did a marvelous job with it. Excellent tempo,...
@Terez: If you're looking for something French, you could always check out the music of Alkan (Some of his etudes are BRILLIANT. Check out Le...
I do have a favorite organist, though I'd be curious to see if anybody here has ever heard of him before? Thierry Escaich....
Am I the only one who loves the 1st piano concerto? :shock: I will readily admit that the 2nd and 3rd are infinitely better written pieces, and...
Omggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg I feel like such a dick. I haven't been on here in like..... at least over a year now. :( Sorry...
Thank you for your comments aryobrand. I'd love to listen to your orchestration, but sadly I'm now computerless again, and my only viable means...
OK, here's how I recorded: 1.) Record directly into the piano's memory. (Because if my piano is plugged in to the recorder, my speakers stop...
I doubt the digital can be "looked at" since they're all uniform, so I doubt much could be done with it. It's marvelous for big, "beefy" passages,...
I have no idea where those little issues came from. I recorded this the same way I recorded all my prior pieces on the digital... same equipment...
OK... time for another test. I've been trying to crank out my entire CD all over again on my digital tonight... and it's been hell. I'm still...
I wouldn't be able to get it tuned soon enough. Today's Thanksgiving, so nobody's working. And I NEED to mail it by tommorrow or else it won't...
It was pretty painful playing that piano... I'd hear the music in it's proper key in my head, and it'd clash with the incorrectly tuned piano,...
So... I'm kinda back. Sorta. Maybe. A little. Yeah, I'm actually still computerless at the moment (because I'm too cheap to buy a new one), so...
Almost everything Rachmaninoff did was pure genuis. Except for the 4th piano concerto... I have issues with that thing... Back to the Bach...
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