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Solari
post Mar 19 2010, 10:01 AM
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I seem to have accidentally started on the Schumann "Kind im Enschlummern" piece

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thought the score was some other piece that you intended to play?


I intended to play it but not yet. I thought I'd have a quick go of it, but as it wasn't quite as easy under the fingers as I expected. Before I knew it, I'd worked out fingerings for a large chunk of the piece. No point in leaving it alone now, as I said (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Mar 19 2010, 10:41 AM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Mar 19 2010, 10:01 AM) *

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QUOTE(Solari @ Mar 18 2010, 11:23 PM) *

I seem to have accidentally started on the Schumann "Kind im Enschlummern" piece

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

thought the score was some other piece that you intended to play?


I intended to play it but not yet. I thought I'd have a quick go of it, but as it wasn't quite as easy under the fingers as I expected. Before I knew it, I'd worked out fingerings for a large chunk of the piece. No point in leaving it alone now, as I said (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


No point at all Sol, onwards and upwards as they say lol.
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post Mar 20 2010, 12:58 AM
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Next week my teacher wants me to start Debussy's Le Petit Negre, and also wants me to learn Clare de Lune and The Golliwog's Cakewalk, she reckons that they are manageable for me. So quite exciting as I thought it would be a while longer before I could manage any of these.


I look forward to listening to you play these Eldatom, as I love Debussy, Clare de Lune especially (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)


You could be waiting a while then mini mo! especially with my nerves - but you never know I may be able to stumble through it in July?

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Liszt - Hymn to the awakening child, from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses.

Still work to do but getting there. May give it a public airing in May.

Anyone else playing it?


Sounds lovely Oldnotes, what sort of difficulty level is it? I don't think I have played any Liszt yet.


Easily grade 8+ like 99% of Liszt. I would love to learn the 'Blessing of God in solitude' from that collection, it is beautiful- but amazingly difficult >.< Definitely should give it a listen if you don't know it (Y)
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post Mar 20 2010, 07:50 AM
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Looking forward to starting some new pieces next week.

Faure - Romance Sans Paroles - opus 17. No 3

Poulenc - Nocturne V111.

I'd really like to start the first movement of Mozart's sonata K284 but not sure my teacher will agree with me. I may have to resort to Kulhau Sonata no 2 of Trois Sonata non difficiles, opus 60.

Also starting to learn the Primo part of the first movement of Mozart sonata K. V. 381 and have various other duet pieces on the go.
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post Mar 20 2010, 08:33 AM
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oooh - I love the Poulenc. one of my ATFs.
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post Mar 20 2010, 09:55 AM
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I love it too Maggie - I only hope I can do it justice. I love his Nocturne No 1 too but that it beyond me at the moment.
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post Mar 20 2010, 04:45 PM
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oooh - I love the Poulenc. one of my ATFs.

I'm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/offTopic.gif) I'm afraid, but what's an ATF?
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post Mar 20 2010, 04:52 PM
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oooh - I love the Poulenc. one of my ATFs.

I'm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/offTopic.gif) I'm afraid, but what's an ATF?


All-Time Favourites?

I'm guessing here, but it looks to fit the context!
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post Mar 21 2010, 07:16 PM
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Still practicing my diploma pieces for December. They are all more or less under the fingers now and I could make a decent fist of playing the recital from memory next week but there are too many rough edges for comfort. The Haydn needs better phrasing, the Debussy needs better pedalling and more accurate jumps. The Liszt and the Bach are having a dormant phase at the moment.

Everything needs about as much work again to get it just the way I want it, and by then I will want to do even more. The problem is that no matter how well you can play a piece there's always more you know you could do.

I'm also doing a study from Czerny School of Velocity and a Chopin Polonaise. Also preparing for grade 8 flute.
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post Mar 29 2010, 09:33 PM
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My teacher has started me on Chopin's Op.10 No.1 Etude. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) This should be...interesting...

Really spooky as Mad Tom was telling me today that I should take a look at it... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Besides that,

I'm well into page 2 of Tchaikovsky's "June" (Barcarolle)
Got a few bars left to sort out of John Field's Nocturne in Bb
Got about 8 bars left to sort out of Schumann's "Kind im Enschlummern"
Got about 3/4 of a page to finish of Beethoven's Bagatelle #1 Op.119
Chopin Op.28 No.15 is looking like it might be ready for a performance soon! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yay.gif)

Finished a few easy pieces I had on the back burner (an Eindaudi and a Schumann piece)

It's felt like I've been bashing my head against a wall lately because everything seems so difficult (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif), but I suppose when I write it down, it doesn't look too bad... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
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post Mar 30 2010, 07:28 AM
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Chopin Ballade finally in good shape and, in the face of pig-headed stubborness, the memory-resistant Scriabine preludes finaly gave up the struggle and stayed in the brain cells. Polishing touches to Kees van Baaren concerto pretty well done.

I have a couple of Mozart sonatas on the go (K284 and K333) and one of Beethoven's easier ones (Op 14/1) but need a new technical challenge to push the limits a bit. Liszt Bminor Sonata perhaps? Or would that be pushing them too far?
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post Mar 30 2010, 10:39 AM
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I have a couple of Mozart sonatas on the go (K284 and K333) and one of Beethoven's easier ones (Op 14/1) but need a new technical challenge to push the limits a bit. Liszt Bminor Sonata perhaps? Or would that be pushing them too far?


Have you played the Liszt Liebstraum #3 ? Or is that too easy for you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Mar 30 2010, 11:06 AM
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I have a couple of Mozart sonatas on the go (K284 and K333) and one of Beethoven's easier ones (Op 14/1) but need a new technical challenge to push the limits a bit. Liszt Bminor Sonata perhaps? Or would that be pushing them too far?


Have you played the Liszt Liebstraum #3 ? Or is that too easy for you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I have not played it, as in studied it properly. It is not "too easy" - but it would not offer any big technical challenge.

This opens up a big question for me. I still have many technical deficiencies, and as I am no longer young I feel that I have to spend my time working mostly on pieces that are seriously difficult, and that force me to constantly improve in terms of managing big chords, fast passages, huge leaps, complex figuration, wide dynamic range and so on.

One advantage of working on that sort of piece is that by the time you can play it, you have repeated it so many times that it is solidly and permanently memorized.

There is a place for learning less challenging, but equally beautiful, pieces - there are thousands that are well within my capabilities (Like the Beethoven Op 14/1 for example) but I always have the feeling that working on those is in some way wasting time - and that I can't afford do that - as I have already left it very late to make the journey from reasonable amateur to competent professional .
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post Mar 30 2010, 11:37 AM
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I was wondering whether to learn Ravel Pavane or Debussy Reverie, and missypiano has convinced me to go for the latter (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif), but then I looked it up on youtube and found that it sounds even more beautiful on the harp, so I'm now back to being undecided! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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post Mar 30 2010, 12:05 PM
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I was wondering whether to learn Ravel Pavane or Debussy Reverie, and missypiano has convinced me to go for the latter (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif), but then I looked it up on youtube and found that it sounds even more beautiful on the harp, so I'm now back to being undecided! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)


Panthera, You must play Reverie on piano as well! I insist (as long as I get to hear it of course!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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