Hello all, To introduce myself, I used to be a regular contributing pianist on this site a while back. While I still make recordings sometimes...
"I believe you have a specific notion of how Beethoven should be played..." Yep, and so do you. The difference is that, a couple of testy remarks...
I suppose it's going to be tough to please everyone on this well-known sonata (which, along with the Moonlight, may well be Beethoven's most...
Well as they say, it's not brain surgery. I can see how with a keyboard output as robust as Bach's, it might help to have some points of...
The sound seems quite nice! For my taste, the sound seems a bit fuller in this setting than in your regular recordings. The larger acoustic, of...
Thanks, Andrew. Interesting -- I don't know the Thalberg. Did he transcribe the entire Requiem or just these two pieces as well? I'll have to...
Thanks, Monica. Yes, I wondered about the S. numbers but then wasn't sure whether we were using them. The Chopin transcription is No. 2 in S. 480,...
My performances of some shorter Liszt transcriptions that I thought would work well alongside the Annees. The first, Abschied, I guess really...
A good question, one that I've been wondering about myself recently, though the more I listen to the current generation of pianists, the more...
As I'm rather fond of saying, I wouldn't base one's feeling about the "perfection" of a recording on the slips. ALL recordings are imperfect;...
One of the most finished and tragic of the Chopin mazurkas IMO. Also a subtle one to interpret. You have some nice phrases, particularly at the...
I think posting Youtube llinks without any introduction is generally frowned upon around here, so if that's the case the admins may yell at you...
Hello Jeff, This illustrates why I'm not a believer in metronome practice, since it can tend to make playing stiff, dull, and... well,...
Yes, his virtuosity is certainly awesome. Just relistened to the Trovatore and his facility, speed, and nervosity are jaw-dropping. And I was...
Quite impressive for an impromptu performance. Are you planning on working it into a more coherent, written-out transcription? The various...
Hi Stu, Interesting, I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it, I can see that -- the tremolos in particular perhaps. And I love...
Is this classical? Sounds more like something John Tesh might have composed when he had a bad case of indigestion.
None, because I'd rather play tiddly winks (or maybe Dungeons and Dragons in the case of the Danse Macabre transcription). Seems to me you once...
I'm not familiar with this piece (though I know the tune well), or of any of Saint-Saens's transcriptions for that matter, though IMHO his solo...
Hello Francois, Very interesting to hear this. I'm not particularly well acquainted with Rameau's harpsichord music, having mainly listened to...
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