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Solari
post Jun 16 2010, 01:04 PM
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I think my teacher was talking about something from Children's Corner, but he didn't have it with him (slight confusion, since he was expecting to give me a sax lesson ahead of my exam this Friday, but I was fed up of exam prep and asked to have my piano lesson as scheduled (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )


I ordered the Children's Corner and Preludes #1 books yesterday.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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post Jun 17 2010, 05:36 PM
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I've nearly finished Traumerai-well, the notes, anyway! Progress has been very slow indeed with exams.
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post Jun 17 2010, 06:14 PM
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I've nearly finished Traumerai-well, the notes, anyway! Progress has been very slow indeed with exams.


That piece tied my fingers in knots! I shelved it for a while. First 8 bars are fine... the next 8 are AAAARGH! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Jun 17 2010, 06:16 PM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Jun 17 2010, 07:14 PM) *

QUOTE(Fran*Piano @ Jun 17 2010, 06:36 PM) *

I've nearly finished Traumerai-well, the notes, anyway! Progress has been very slow indeed with exams.


That piece tied my fingers in knots! I shelved it for a while. First 8 bars are fine... the next 8 are AAAARGH! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


It is a bit odd on the fingerings-some bits I seemed to find just lay under my fingers perfectly, others were awful! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Jun 23 2010, 09:22 PM
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Finally I get to post here again because I can actually practice again!!

I'm currently easing back in after nearly two weeks of no piano. Thus playing Prelude & Fugue in C major and C minor from WTC book 1.

the more I play Bach the more I realise that I hear other instruments in the writing - for example the Prelude in C minor reminds me so much of one of the cello suites, and the fantasia-like bit at the end is reminiscent of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (the famous organ one that everyone knows...)

Maybe that's a naive thing to say, maybe it's so totally obvious. but anyway, that's why I keep coming back to Bach and why I find his keyboard stuff so fascinating. there's always some other layer that becomes apparent.
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post Jun 26 2010, 05:49 PM
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Back-Prelude no. 15
Chopin-Mazurka in A minor
Joanna McGregor-Lowside Blues

All in preparation for my grade 7 exam in about a three weeks.
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post Jun 26 2010, 06:14 PM
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Back-Prelude no. 15
Chopin-Mazurka in A minor
Joanna McGregor-Lowside Blues

All in preparation for my grade 7 exam in about a three weeks.


Bach I take it? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jun 26 2010, 09:52 PM
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Yesterday my teacher told me to start learning the Chopin Etude number 14. This confused me for a little while as my brain counts up to 12 twice with Chopin etudes, but she means op 25 no. 2 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jun 26 2010, 09:58 PM
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Yesterday my teacher told me to start learning the Chopin Etude number 14. This confused me for a little while as my brain counts up to 12 twice with Chopin etudes, but she means op 25 no. 2 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


I should think that's a good stepping-stone for the 'Fantasie' Impromptu in C# minor.
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post Jun 27 2010, 07:33 AM
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Not quite the same perhaps as preparing for a piano exam, but piano pupils of mine are taking grade 7 and grade 8 saxophone this year and I shall have the pleasure of accompanying.

One of the grade 7 accompanied pieces has some tricky bars - it is the delightful 'Bal Musette' from 'Picnic on the Marne' by the contemporary American composer Ned Rorem. One of the grade 8 pieces needed many of hours of practise but is a great piece - 'Schwarzer Tanzer' (Black Dancer) by the contemporary English composer Nigel Wood. Another grade 7 piece we did last year was 'Witch Hunt' by Ulrich Schulthweiss. Again this takes a bit of learning but, hey guys, accompany at that level and you can expect a bit of homework.
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post Jun 27 2010, 11:16 PM
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Beethoven Sonata op 53 'Waldstein'- 3rd mvt going very well, just started the 1st which has some evil passages, not touching the 2nd for a while.

Ligeti Automne a Varsovie- finally getting the hang of the mad rhythms this involves but at a VERY slow tempo

need to find another piece that is "beautiful" *wishes teacher had been more specific* thinking Rachmaninoff op 32/10 or 39/2 but still looking around...
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post Jun 28 2010, 01:55 PM
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Trying to get the middle section of the Chopin Nocturne in F# up to speed. Am hoping to have this relatively "polished" for Chets
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Some of the Forgotten Melodies by Medtner, and Dialogues by Mompou...as always, i leave them, then return to them some months later...and hopefully each time i do this, they get a little better. The part written on the three staves in the second Dialogue is fiendish to get right.
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post Jun 29 2010, 06:49 AM
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Steve Reich's Six Pianos, part 4. It's impossibly difficult... I've probably been asked to play because I will sight read anything that is put in front of me, but this is just ridiculous. I can barely play the patterns, let alone look at the number of repeats and change/stop at the right time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
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post Jun 29 2010, 08:09 AM
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Most of what I have been working on for the last year or so is at last in reasonable shape. Much of it is not completely securely memorized, but it is all sounding much closer to how it sounds in my imagination ... as close as it is going to get until I break through to a higher level of skill.

So looking through my 9 feet high pile of pieces I must learn before I die, I wanted something that:

1. I absolutely love
2. Is challenging but not too challenging
3. I could use in an LRSM or LLCM exam
4. Would delight the listeners at a recital
5. Is not (too) hackneyed
6. Is not too long
7. I could take to Chet's to work on intensively

This produced the following shortlist:

Busoni: Etude en Forme de Variations
Scriabin: Etude Op 8 No 12
Prokofiev: Sonata No 3
Liszt: Transcendental Etude No 3 "Paysage"

The Busoni is a bit too long to learn in 10 days of summer school, the Prokofiev is still a little bit too difficult for me to do it justice (at least not at the speed at which Gilels used to play it and at which Glemser - amongst others - still does play it). The Liszt I just did not fancy starting on right now.

But I was delighted to find that the Scriabin Etude, that looked complex, fearsome, if not impossible just two years ago now looks comparatively simple in stucture and construction, and that left hand part (that I thought leapt about wildly) now seems entirely logical, and almost restrained. Not frightening at all!!
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