PianoTell Recital #6 Is Now Live!

navindra · 2025-11-15T16:10:00+00:00

Welcome to PianoTell Recital #6! WieWaldi — Kansas City Blues by Jim Jackson plop_symphony — Pièce pour l'œuvre du Vêtement du blessé, L. 133, by Claude Debussy Peyton — Do You Love Me by Nick Cave Sophia — Minuet from Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart keff — Misty by Erroll Garner & Johnny Burke arr. by Brent Edstrom iternabe — Hava Nagila — Israeli Folk Song arr. by Faber MarieJ — Leo’s Journal by Max Richter rogerch — Thanksgiving by George Winston Schubertian2 — Sonata in E, #30, Opus 109, by Beethoven lilypad — Snowfall by Claude Thornhill Calavera — Avid by Hiroyuki Sawano Nightowl — Born Free by John Barry Cratersmash — Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Mvt I, by Ludwig van Beethoven Opal — Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4, by Chopin rsl12 — C. C. Rider — Traditional, arr. by Dr. John Simonb — Danny Boy arr. by Nikki Illes pianocat — Prelude in Cm (Op. 28 No. 20) by Frédéric Chopin ShiroKuro — Canon in D by Pachelbel + ShiroKuro + Lee Galloway rach3master — Song of the Ancients by MONACA arr. by Natsumi Kameoka navindra — Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart-Angelo arr. by Korby Lenker You can reply to each performance directly or click below for an optional template that you can copy/paste to comment on each performance: > @"WieWaldi"#p36872 WieWaldi from Bavaria (near Germany), 3¾ years of actively self learning > @"plop_symphony"#p36874 Pièce pour l'œuvre du Vêtement du blessé, L. 133 by Claude Debussy > @"Peyton"#p36875 Do You Love Me by Nick Cave > @"Sophia"#p36879 Minuet from Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart > @"keff"#p36885 Misty by Erroll Garner & Johnny Burke arr. by Brent Edstrom > @"iternabe"#p36905 Hava Nagila — Israeli Folk Song arr. by Faber > @"MarieJ"#p36924 Leo’s Journal by Max Richter > @"rogerch"#p36928 Thanksgiving by George Winston > @"Schubertian2"#p37011 Sonata in E, #30, Opus 109, by Beethoven > @"lilypad"#p37065 Snowfall by Claude Thornhill > @"Calavera"#p37072 Avid by Hiroyuki Sawano > @"Nightowl"#p37146 Born Free by John Barry > @"Cratersmash"#p37269 Sonata No.30 in E Major, Mvt I, by Ludwig van Beethoven > @"Opal"#p37277 Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4, by Chopin > @"rsl12"#p37298 C. C. Rider — Traditional, arr. by Dr. John > @"Simonb"#p37373 Danny Boy arr. by Nikki Illes > @"pianocat"#p37394 Prelude in Cm, Op. 28 No. 20, by Frédéric Chopin > @"ShiroKuro"#p37395 Canon in D by Pachelbel + ShiroKuro + Lee Galloway > @"rach3master"#p37409 Song of the Ancients, Composer: MONACA, Arranger: Natsumi Kameoka > @"navindra"#p37411 Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart-Angelo arr. by Korby Lenker if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } Enjoy!

rsl12

Nightowl after listening, I pulled up the trailer for "Born Free". The tune sounds VERY familiar but neither the movie nor the orchestral version in the trailer are ringing any bells!

Your hands are looking more relaxed. Hopefully playing is feeling more comfortable as well! One thing you might try is connecting the notes when you are playing up a scale with your right hand with fingers 1 2 3 4 5. It sounds like 1 and 2 are connected with a slur, and 3 and 4 are connected, but nothing else. Try connecting all 5 notes, making it all legato, with a crescendo as you go up. (However, if it was a deliberate musical choice, then ignore my suggestion!)

If I can ask an off-topic question: did the lion come out of your personal collection of plushies, or did you purchase it specifically for this video? Whichever way you answer will tell me a lot about your personality! (I was amused seeing the props, so they did their jobs!)

An on-topic question: What happened to pedal practice?

rogerch

Cratersmash Congrats on winning the competition! You are super talented and your playing is wonderful to listen to. Very smooth confident playing with great skill and expression. You do a wonderful job bringing out the beauty of this piece!

rogerch

Opal Welcome to the recitals and I’m glad you’re getting back into piano! I’m happy I get to hear you play! I enjoy your smooth playing of this prelude. You have mastered this piece well. Even with the limited dynamic range your playing is expressive and lovely to listen to!

rogerch

rsl12 What a joyful sound! Your playing of this piece is really beautiful! I’m impressed by your talent and skill. It looks and sounds like you’re doing great with those tenths!

rogerch

Simonb Your new piano sounds and looks gorgeous! That piano is lucky to have you as its player: you make a great team! I really enjoy your delicate, impeccable playing. You put a lot of feeling into your playing and it sounds wonderful. Congratulations and thanks for your playing!

rogerch

pianocat It’s wonderful to hear you play! I love the nice full sound when you dig into those big fat chords. And then your lovely delicate playing of the quieter parts, what a great contrast! Very well done!

Opal

Nightowl thank you for your kind words! Yes there is an extended half note rest written in the music.

rogerch

ShiroKuro I love Pachelbel’s Canon and I love what you’ve done with it! How fun that you drew from multiple arrangements and made it your own! I enjoy your expert expressive playing throughout this piece. I can tell that you’re having fun with it!

Two highlights for me:

The section starting at 3:10 where the melody pauses in each phrase and the RH helps the LH out with the harmony. Lovely!
5:47 until the end when you go into overdrive. Wow! Great playing!!

To everyone else: do not skip any parts of this. Listen to all of it! You will be glad you did!

rogerch

rach3master The composition, your playing, and the piano combine to result in an absolutely gorgeous sound! Your passionate playing creates great drama! I’m blown away by how good this sounds. I’m also super happy that someone with your talent has access to such a fantastic setup.

I am intrigued by the links In the description of your video. Are you one of the performers for the tour? If not I hope your videos get noticed by the folks in charge of the tour so they can bring you on board!

rogerch

navindra Fantastic! I am super impressed by your singing, and that you can play the piano so well at the same time! Great sound, great video, great playing, great singing. I love it!

Thank you so much for your performance, for running the recital, and for providing this awesome web site for all of us!

rsl12

ShiroKuro my thoughts are similar to my Pachelbel partner Sophia's thoughts. Normally I'm not that big a fan of this piece, but you did a great job of making it an interesting 7 minutes journey. The gradual changes and surprising build up of textures at the end really wowed me. I can tell you've been working very hard at this!

rsl12

WieWaldi I'm glad you found this easy! You sound very comfortable playing it. Your left hand keeps steady as the right hand floats above. But I did catch a rhythm error. In measure 4 (and elsewhere) you are holding the E for a quarter beat, and I assume it's supposed to be a swung eighth note.

Player1

rach3master
I am so jealous of how easily your hands flow across the keyboard.

Simonb

Thanks WieWaldi

The errors weren't in the form of wrong notes.
Timing and fingering were the main crimes!

Cheers

Simonb

Here goes with my first batch of comments:

@WieWaldi
Nicely done. You're making great progress. In time you'll be able to sit down and play like that without the need for sheet music. The patterns, riffs and changes will become ingrained in your playing.

@plop_symphony
That was very good indeed. Though that's an easier Debussy piece it's by no means an easy/beginner piece. For someone who has been playing less than 3 years that was great.

@Peyton
Superb as always. A great arrangement. Listening to it again this morning (as I'd already listened to it on PW) I wonder if there was Leonard Cohen influence? The opening section is very Cohen like.

@Sophia
I was waiting for Mozart to appear ala Amadeus and proceed to improvise wondrously on his own simplified theme! It's such a beautiful little tune in that form. Fear not you played it well, and for less than 2 years you're doing great. My Piano Teacher says you can't hide when playing Mozart.

More later.

Cheers

keff

Sophia It brought back happy memories of my youth, because it was one of the pieces my dad played...

Thank you for that comment which has prompted me to play Misty for the first time since changing my piano and to decide that it needs a place in my 'regularly to play' folder.

ShiroKuro

WieWaldi fantastic playing! wow, you didn’t practice much? That shows how well you have internalized the genre, the feel, the pulse! Great work.
And yes, I think you need to win the award for best page turn ever!

plop_symphony that was lovely! I didn’t know the piece but it’s charming and you played it very well!

Peyton another great performance and recording feat! I don’t know this song (although I know some of Nick Cave) but you clearly made it your own. I loved reading about your recording process. Am I right that you have a score on the music stand in front of you? I can’t imagine how hard it would be to do the piano and backing vocals first, before the main vocal line! Great work!

Sophia very nice! That is a lovely piece and you captured the lighthearted feel perfectly! I was talking with my teacher recently about which pieces feel hard to learn and we were talking about how sometimes the ones that look and/or sound like they should be easy (or at least easier) are the hardest to learn or hardest to polish. Another great thing about your performance is that it doesn’t sound like it was hard for you, which is skill in its own right!

keff Thanks for sharing this! I know you’re not looking for comments, but I enjoyed it and I love those jazz chords! And I sympathize with your mistaken order! I have a few double copies of things on my shelf because I bought something, forgot I had it and bought it again! 😅

iternabe great work! I almost never (probably very close to actually) learn pieces I haven’t heard before (because I usually pick pieces because I know them and want to play them) so I can imagine that this would have been quite challenging to learn that way. Nicely played!

MarieJ very nice! This is another one I didn’t know. I really like that you’re introducing me to all these pieces by Max Richter! (I am reminded of all the pieces that I first heard from Monica’s recordings and eventually went on to add to my repertoire as well…) I love how well you bring out the melody line over the repeating accompaniment. I don’t know Richter’s tempo, but your tempo sounded just right to me!

rogerch Wow, really lovely playing! I’ve been a fan of George Winston’s for …. Well for at least as long as I’ve been playing piano, probably longer (IOW for 26+ years). This is one of those extremely intricate pieces that are dreamy and relaxing to listen, but are quite challenging to learn. And yes, that defy memorization. Is this piece in the original sheet music collection (the blue one, that came out before he passed away)? I hope so, now you’ve inspired me to ~~remind myself of how incompetent I am~~ try this one myself. 😅

Ok that’s all for this morning. Thank you everyone, I’m really enjoying this recital! More comments to come…

Simonb

A few more....

@keff
My Dad's favourite Jazz Pianist was Errol Garner, so I was brought listening to him.
Always great to hear Misty played again, well done.

@iternabe
I must have heard this growing up, as it's very familiar. Nice use of dynamics, and generally very well played, especially for somebody who has only been playing for less than 2 years.

@MarieJ
I wasn't familiar with the piece or composer. A very interesting piece, and nicely played and recorded.

@rogerch
I'm aware of George Winston, though I don't really know his material at all. Interestingly he wrote the sleeve notes to a James Booker album I have - now there's a contrast. Anyway I digress, I enjoyed your performance, it's a lovely piece that you played beautifully.

@Schubertian2
One of my ambitions is to eventually learn a Beethoven sonata. I think it's going to be a few more years! They are really tough to play. Your performance was dynamic and exciting, and I'm sure you'll do well on stage. Good luck.

@lilypad
I always love your choices, even when I've never heard of them! It's a lovely piece and you played it very well.

Cheers

ShiroKuro

@pianocat thank you!

@WieWaldi sorry to keep you waiting! 😃 thank you for the kind comments. And yes, tempo… always a struggle not to speed up and charge ahead!

@Sophia thank you! Both for the lovely comments and for listening through to the end! 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it!

@rogerch thank you so much for these comments! And for the endorsement! That made my day! ❤️ I’m glad like that part after the 3 minute mark. One of the reason I wanted to make this arrangement was because so many different arrangements had sections that I like,but none of them had all the sections that I liked in one piece. And for the Lee Galloway arrangement, I love the part at the end where it slips into all 16th notes and really wanted to play that, but I felt that the rest of it was missing all the variations that I loved. And so that’s how I ended up with this arrangement. When I first did the arrangement, however many years ago, I couldn’t actually play it. And now I can, so that’s quite satisfying.

@rsl12 thank you for the lovely comments! It’s been so hard to control this piece… wait, it’s not the piece that needs controlling, it’s me because I tend to speed up… anyway, that gradual change is what makes the “wow” at the end possible, so it’s motivating to know that it worked.

Thank you everyone who’s listened so far. I really was thinking the recording wasn’t worth sharing but I’m so glad I did.

I’m planning to play a mini concert (5 pieces) during the winter holidays, and I want this one to be part of it. So doing the recording and sharing it is both great preparation and also a nice confidence boost. 🙂

Ok, I’ll be back soon to listen to the remaining pieces in the recital! I’m proud to be among such a talented group!

keff

Schubertian2 Bravo. Splendid achievement.

lilypad Lovely piece, well played and controlled.

Calavera Very impressive.

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