PianoTell Recital #3 Is Now Live!
Sgisela Interesting that it's in a suite of Afrocuban dances--it doesn't sound very Afrocuban to me at all! I love the buildup.
Gooseberry Sounds like you have this piece under your fingers. I'm glad you get to play a piece that has meaning to you.
bSharp Blast from the past. I enjoyed listening, and inside I was singing along. No other notes because I was enjoying it too much!
Greta99 As usual, you are good at making the piano sound delicate, clear, and lovely.
ShiroKuro This is a wonderful recording! It's so much cleaner than what you prepared for the last recital. Did you work on this one more or did you improve so much in just a few months??
keff — Summertime
The jazz arrangement was a good one! That was a difficult piece which you handled very well. (Performance slips seem to be an inevitable accompaniment to all of our recordings - but I didn’t notice any here … )
iternabe — Malagueña
Wow - only one year into your piano journey? Wonderful! Congratulations to you and your teacher!
Gooseberry Wow, congratulations on creating and playing your own arrangement!
bSharp I love this song, and you played it very much like the soaring power ballad it is. I wonder why the arranger chose to use a different key. They did a good job capturing Steve Perry going slightly off key at the end of the chorus.
Little story, I live in an apartment building, and one time the maintenance guy came by to fix something. When they saw the piano, the first thing they asked was whether I knew how to play Open Arms.
rsl12 Did you work on this one more or did you improve so much in just a few months??
Thanks for your kind words, @rsl12 !
To your question… I don’t think I’ve improved much in these few months 
I actually think this piece (Wind) might be easier than the other (Reminiscence) but also, I wasn’t really ready to record Reminiscence and I think my recital submission was the first take of it. But as I recall, recording Reminiscence really pushed me forward with that piece, and when I played it for family over the holidays, it was much improved. Maybe I should put it back into my program for an upcoming performance….
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Sophia - Just a "Good Old Tune"
What a treat, 3 polished performances in one - a perfect match indeed. Sophia, you did so well with the tricky task of keeping everything flowing. Well played - and a lot of fun!
rach3master — Call of Silence: Attack on Titan OST
Pure magic, brilliant in every way. What more can I say!?
plop_symphony — A Hermit Crab Surfing
A confident and sparkling performance, particularly impressive given the short time you’ve been playing.
Player1 — Legend of Madrid
"Raw" or not, polishing can wait! That was very well done, Player1; so glad you struggled through and made it to this Recital.
hebele — Minuet in G
Ornaments and all, in your first year! That was really well done; congratulations on flying through this rite of passage.
Pathbreaker — Op. 116 No. 6, Intermezzo in E major
I stand by my comments over at PianoWorld … 
Calavera — Antipyretic
My comments are over at PianoWorld. Sounded great over here, too! 
WieWaldi — Frisco Blues
Easy to listen to, so relaxed! I really enjoyed this piece and I’m glad you made it in time!
Sam — "An Important Event" from the Scenes from Childhood
You play this with the gravity, skill (and the tempo, I believe) appropriate for an ‘important event’. The extra piano looks at home and elegant, there’s lots of space in your music room … just saying …
SalmonJack — Just Mist
(My comments are over at PianoWorld; I enjoyed another listen.)
Rob — Pembrokeshire Promise
A gentle, haunting theme, sensitively played - what a moving and beautiful composition. I loved it. Thank you!
Greta99 I had only heard of Mel Bonis's compositions for children, so it was great to hear something that... I suppose is technically still for children, being a lullaby, but you get the point. I thought your playing was lovely and very well controlled.
ShiroKuro Great playing! I always struggle with these kinds of wide arpeggios.
plop_symphony Thank you!!
BicBic — Mazurka Op.6 No.2
I’m not familiar with mazurkas, so this was a pleasant surprise. It danced along merrily from your fingers into my toes - what a delight!
Sgisela — Danza de los ñáñigos
(My comments are over at PianoWorld - a beautiful performance.)
Gooseberry — Nights in White Satin
Your arrangement was excellent, and I thought your sensitive playing exactly right for this nostalgic piece. A captivating package!
bSharp — Journey - Open Arms
So much to like here! I appreciated the video, as I love to follow the score. Your instrument choice, C3X/Pianoteq, was intriguing and I thought it worked really well … and your skilled performance was icing on the cake. A great submission - thank you!
I meant to comment on any pieces that were also submitted to PW just in this forum, but I managed to miss some, so some of those are here and some are there!
rogerch — Flutter - Sounded great, loved the feel of it, made me think of a bright spring morning.
Nightowl — Frankie and Johnnie - Great job, sounds like fun to play. It was a lot more jolly sounding than I expected based on the story!
Peyton — A Dream of Far Away (part two)- I enjoyed part 2 too - not sure which I preferred! Very cool!
Animisha — To a Wild Rose - Beautiful, I’d heard of this suite but never listened to any of the pieces. Your performance makes me want to check it out! Have you played any of the others?
keff — Summertime - Great version, played very nicely - sounded very cool and chilled. Your piano sounds lovely.
iternabe — Malagueña - Very cool piece, very fun to listen to and I’m sure to play. Definitely sounds like you capture the feel and rhythm of it, great job!
Sophia & @rsl12 — Just a "Good Old Tune" - A duet - how fun!! Played with a lovely light touch that felt just right! Fantastic.
rach3master — Call of Silence: Attack on Titan OST - Sounded great, wow your fingers are flying, while the melody still comes out so beautifully!
plop_symphony — A Hermit Crab Surfing - This was so fun and played well! You said in your YT blurb that you found it difficult, but you certainly seem to have got it as it didn’t sound like you were struggling! I’ll have to check out this children’s album myself!
Player1 — Legend of Madrid - This didn’t sound that raw, I thought you captured the feel of the piece really well! I’m sorry to hear you haven’t been able to play recently and hope that changes soon!
MarieJ — I Giorni - Absolutely beautiful, and I’m so glad you found the music that inspires you to play! Loved the video too, very interesting to see all the pianos over the years!
hebele — Minuet in G - A classic, thank you for the hard work you put in, I thought it sounded great and played with a lovely light touch!
Pathbreaker — Op. 116 No. 6, Intermezzo in E major - Beautifully played! I love the video set up with the score too.
WieWaldi — Frisco Blues - Very nice, I’ve been enjoying these blues pieces from you!
BicBic I’m sorry to hear you haven’t been able to play recently and hope that changes soon!
Thank you.
I'm having some serious medical issues which are preventing me from playing. I have a hard copy of the piano arranged version of Handel's Passacaglia by Pianistos that I really want to learn as a recital piece, but I can't sit at the piano for any length of time. 2 minutes/day isn't long enough to do anything and the pain it causes sucks worse than missing an easy gold ring grab. And we all know I'm into those free gold rings. Right?
Worse, right now the wait time for the doc is 4 months to get an evaluation of my current condition to see if surgery is a good fit. My prior medical intervention process went out the window when I had a severe side effect response. That path is now closed and contra indicated so we have to find a new way to deal with the mess I'm in.
No, it's not the Big C. Or even a little c,d, or e. It's just my body falling apart faster than we expected. Some lifestyle adjustments are having to be made as well but I will adapt.