PianoTell Recital #6 Is Now Live!

Nightowl

lilypad I enjoyed this very much - it's a nice relaxing piece of music and you played it smoothly. The tone of your piano is lovely and the sound quality was great - each note sounded as clear as a bell.

Sophia

navindra I'm not familiar with the piece

Thanks for your kind words! I knew it because my mom loves opera 🙂 Here's the original score, I think it's ever so pretty!

rogerch

Schubertian2 Thanks for this. I've been feeling discouraged about the piece so this helped.
I replied earlier and now I don't see it - Alas! - I had a funny story which I don't know if I want to type out again.

I understand about getting discouraged. From my perspective you have made huge progress. What a great accomplishment!

If you have the time and inclination I am interested in your funny story!

WieWaldi

navindra Thanks Nav, appreciate your kind words. 💕 Good to know, the dynamics could be stronger - I'll keep this in my sleeve for the next pieces. I never had a piano teacher face to face or screen to screen. I am just following a YouTube channel. Someone who is building up blues piano from the scratch, constantly increasing the difficulty, and keeping a certain direction for learning. I think, this works pretty well. Definitely better than watching a tutorial from A, then something complete unrelated from B, and after that something from C with a difficulty level either too easy or too hard.

lilypad

Cratersmash - Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Mvt 1 - That is indeed gorgeous music. Congratulations on winning the competition!

lilypad

Opal - Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4 - Well done! That piece is on my bucket list for next year. I hope I can play it half as well as you.

lilypad

rsl12 - C. C. Rider - That sounded amazing! You look pretty comfortable with the 10ths, but I'm way more jealous of your smooth tremolos and the variety of things you've done with your arrangement.

lilypad

Simonb - Danny Boy - Gorgeous piece. I love the key change. You and your piano sound amazing!

Simonb

Thanks lilypad

lilypad

pianocat - Prelude in Cm - Congratulations on your progress with a teacher. You play with an impressive dynamic range.

lilypad

ShiroKuro - Canon in D - I love your whole arrangement, but confess that my favorite parts were the beginning and ending sections. Best of luck playing your jury performance.

ShiroKuro

lilypad thank you!!

raagamuffin

ShiroKuro
plop_symphony

Thanks for your notes on the timeframes. It's a good ballpark for me to work off of. I'm often disappointed at how long it takes (for me) to read sheet music and convert it into a note on the piano with the right emphasis. And then to become proficient at combining it all to sound melodious.
So it was nice to see that it is not as automatic as I'd envisioned (someone gives you a piece of sheet music and within a few minutes you start playing it) 🙂

plop_symphony

raagamuffin If you're a great sight-reader with sufficient technique then you can certainly play from a sheet immediately after a few minutes, assuming that the music isn't at the very edge of your technical ability.

lilypad

rach3master - Song of the Ancients - I listened and loved every second of this. Absolutely stunning music. I loved your performance of it, as if you, the piano and the music are a single entity. Thank you for sharing this.

lilypad

navindra - Where Everybody Knows Your Name - What a perfect way to wrap up this recital with a song about the comradery and acceptance among people, whether it be the Cheers bar or the people dropping by at the friendly PianoTell forum.

Thank you for hosting the recital and all you do to make PianoTell possible.

navindra

keff Piece: Misty by Erroll Garner & Johnny Burke arr. by Brent Edstrom

What an absolutely lovely piece and it feels so fitting listening to this on a Sunday morning. 🌫️

And what a lovely send off to your Kemble piano as well! What a fine companion it was. Nicely done! 👏

iternabe Piece: Hava Nagila — Israeli Folk Song arr. by Faber

What!? You've been playing for less than 2 years? You play with such confidence, precision, and musicality.

Bravo, I enjoyed that a lot! 👍

keff

navindra Thank you for those kind words.

Calavera

Sorry for the late reply.

WieWaldi WieWaldi from Bavaria (near Germany), 3¾ years of actively self learning
If I hadn't read your description, I wouldn't have guessed you didn't spend much time practising this piece. That sounded really smooth to me and was fun to listen to.

plop_symphony Pièce pour l'œuvre du Vêtement du blessé, L. 133 by Claude Debussy
I'm pretty sure I don't 'get' Debussy, but that was a very even and melodic rendition as far I can tell.

Sophia Minuet from Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart
Sweet and pretty!

rogerch Thanksgiving by George Winston
Beautiful and soothing piece! Very nice selection and performance.

Schubertian2 Sonata in E, #30, Opus 109, by Beethoven
Impressive and beautiful peformance. Your hard work really paid off.

lilypad Snowfall by Claude Thornhill
Very wintery indeed. The piece a little too contemplative for my taste, but your performance sounds really clean and even to me.

Nightowl Born Free by John Barry
Nice uplifting piece!

Cratersmash Sonata No.30 in E Major, Mvt I, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven at his best! I can see why you won the competition.

Opal Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4, by Chopin
Welcome to the recitals! I enjoyed your rendition of this moody piece. You're off to a good start in my book.

rsl12 C. C. Rider — Traditional, arr. by Dr. John
Fun and swaggering! Nice work with the transcription too.

Simonb Danny Boy arr. by Nikki Illes
I'm not familiar with this song, but I found your rendition pleasant and relaxing.

pianocat Prelude in Cm, Op. 28 No. 20, by Frédéric Chopin
Nice and expressive playing.

ShiroKuro Canon in D by Pachelbel + ShiroKuro + Lee Galloway
It really gets better after the three-minute mark, though the build-up was enjoyable too despite the mistakes.

rach3master Song of the Ancients, Composer: MONACA, Arranger: Natsumi Kameoka
I regularly listen to Nier's soundtrack, but it's the first time I've heard a piano arrangement. Gorgeous performance.

navindra Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart-Angelo arr. by Korby Lenker
My word, what a multi-talented musician! That was fun to listen to.

ShiroKuro

thank you!! 🙂

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