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rsl12 · 2026-05-16T09:33:46+00:00

July 15 edit: "Play 'Wiosna' Your Way" is now live! Click to listen. You can continue to use this thread to discuss your preparation of the piece, or to discuss any other matters regarding Play It Your Way. PIYW #9: Play Chopin's "Wiosna" Your Way Play It Your Way is a quasi-monthly event for beginners, professionals, classical, jazz, or pop pianists and everyone in between! We are starting work on "Wiosna (Spring)" by Chopin (B. 117). Use the links below to find the sheet music you like, and when you are ready, post your performance in the submission thread. Perfection is not expected! Previous PIYWs: PIYW #6: Play "Lean On Me" Your Way PIYW #7: Play "Over the Rainbow" Your Way PIYW #8: Play "How Long Blues" Your Way Full List of Previous PIYWs Thanks to rsl12 for this month's selection! Please suggest pieces for future "Play It Your Way" events by using the suggestion box. The theme of the next PIYW (to be announced in July) is "Post-Classical", but feel free to submit good ideas across all genres. Guidelines This is not a contest! It is meant to be a casual and fun event. You can use this thread to discuss your preparation of the piece, or anything else related to PIYW. To submit a recording of your performance, go to the submission thread. All PIYW submissions will remain hidden from public view until July 15. However, there is no deadline for when you need to submit your performance. Although most participants submit their recording before that date, you may submit at any time. Use the recital schedule to plan your participation in future recitals! "Wiosna (Spring)" by Chopin (1838) B. 117 (grade 3) The original version (Op 74 No 2) has a Polish vocal part: Liszt version (grade 6): From Chris at the Piano blog: Wiosna is the Polish word for spring, and it is also the title of one of Chopin’s songs for voice and piano. It is part of his Op. 74, a collection of 17 Polish songs that he composed between 1829 and 1847. ...[Wiosna] is based on a poem by Stefan Witwicki, a friend of Chopin. The poem expresses the joy and beauty of spring, and Chopin’s music reflects this with a lively and cheerful melody, accompanied by flowing arpeggios in the piano. Some additional information about the piano-only version as well as Liszt's version (Wikipedia): Chopin himself arranged the piano part of Wiosna as a piece for piano alone, Andantino in G minor, B. 117. There exist five manuscript versions of this arrangement, dated between April 1838 and 1 September 1848. Between 1847 and 1860, Chopin's friend Franz Liszt arranged six of the Op. 74 songs as piano transcriptions under the title Six Chants polonais, S.480, a set which has long been a concert and recording favourite. English translation of the lyrics: Droplets of dew sparkle, A spring whispers in the open field; Hidden in heather, Somewhere a heifer's bell rings. Pretty gentle open field Picture views form happily, All around, flowers release fragrance, And bushes bloom. Graze and wander, my little herd, I sit by a rock, A sweet song that I like I'll sing for myself. A pleasant quiet abandonded place! Yet some regrets wander in my mind, my heart mourns, and a tear forms in my eye. The tear escapes my eye, Within me sings a stream, To me from above, A skylark responds. His wings he spreads, Barely visible to the eye, Higher, higer... Lost already among the clouds. Above prairies and fields he flies, Still singing his song; And the song from the ground He takes up into the sky! Links to Sheet Music / Lead Sheet You are not limited to only the music linked below. Feel free to find or create your own version. You do not have to complete or perfect the piece to submit it, and don't be afraid to simplify or shorten the piece. Improvisation, backing tracks, and backing humans are all allowed. Sheet music (Listed easiest to hardest): B. 117 (Piano only) IMSLP link (Grade 3) Op 72 No 2 (Piano and voice) IMSLP link Liszt's version: IMSLP Link (Grade 6)

rsl12

About one week to go for Wiosna! We have 5 submissions so far: @KevinM, @statistress, @Sophia, @rsl12, @Platybat (Welcome Platybat, whoever you are!).

Pinging the people who I think are planning on submitting: @Clara, @timeless_sonata, @BartK, @Bahamut_Harmony, @ShiroKuro, @JustinVG. The July 15th publication date is not a deadline. Feel free to take more time if you need it.

EDIT: Oops, forgot @rogerch !

ShiroKuro

rsl12 yikes!!! I have hardly played this in weeks. 😅

Time to get to it, I guess!!

JustinVG

rsl12 It’s not performance ready but I’ll try to get a version in before the deadline. No promises 😇

BartK

I'm going to skip. Not much time to practice or record anything lately.

Bahamut_Harmony

I might try to record what I've got down this weekend. Of course as soon as I started practicing this piece we went to 12 hour days at work, 7 days a week. I wanted to put more time into it but I have a basic version of it down

rsl12

Only a couple days left! For those of you from Reddit, keep in mind that you'll need to upload your video or audio to a hosting website before you submit your recording to the submission thread. The popular choices are Youtube for video and SoundCloud for audio, but any hosting site is fine.

Bahamut_Harmony

I got recording and filming done over the weekend and already have a good chunk of the video edited 😁 It's been a lot of fun, I already have ideas for my next video. I use two cameras to record and lesson number one is make sure you can't see the other camera in frame 😄 I'm gonna record a couple more angles next time as well.

I'm not much of a performer and I'm scared to have eyes on me so here's to me breaking out of my shell.

rsl12

"Play 'Wiosna' Your Way" is now live! Click to listen. You can continue to use this thread to discuss your preparation of the piece, or to discuss any other matters regarding Play It Your Way.

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