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[clavicembalo]

brahms 2nd piano concerto, am also trying to play it on piano...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"John Ogden could also encompass virtually anything at sight. I recall hearing him interviewed on the subject and it transpired that as a students he was asked to play the Brahms 2 in Bb that evening with the Scottish National Orchestra--a work he didn't yet know. Apart from looking through the score on the train on the way he virtually sight read it at performance. His own comment on it was 'I hope it didn't sound like it!"

The conductor did say that at times he was a little disconcerted to see Ogden peering round the edge of the pages as they were turned, looking to see what was coming next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

"Just after he co-won the Tchaikovsky competition in, I think, 1962, he was engaged to do a tour of the ABC where several concerti and consert programmes were required. The only thing he played from music was the Bliss piano concerto. When asked (by a member of the orchestra who related the story to me) why he used the music for that one piece his reply was 'Oh I I' ve just started learning it!'"

[Violin Hero]

brahms 2nd piano concerto, am also trying to play it on piano...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"John Ogden could also encompass virtually anything at sight. I recall hearing him interviewed on the subject and it transpired that as a students he was asked to play the Brahms 2 in Bb that evening with the Scottish National Orchestra--a work he didn't yet know. Apart from looking through the score on the train on the way he virtually sight read it at performance. His own comment on it was 'I hope it didn't sound like it!"

The conductor did say that at times he was a little disconcerted to see Ogden peering round the edge of the pages as they were turned, looking to see what was coming next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

"Just after he co-won the Tchaikovsky competition in, I think, 1962, he was engaged to do a tour of the ABC where several concerti and consert programmes were required. The only thing he played from music was the Bliss piano concerto. When asked (by a member of the orchestra who related the story to me) why he used the music for that one piece his reply was 'Oh I I' ve just started learning it!'"

I have seen some amazing sight readers in my time but this blows them away with ease. Amazing that that soemone can just sight read something well enough to perform it in public without practice!

[clavicembalo]

brahms 2nd piano concerto, am also trying to play it on piano...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"John Ogden could also encompass virtually anything at sight. I recall hearing him interviewed on the subject and it transpired that as a students he was asked to play the Brahms 2 in Bb that evening with the Scottish National Orchestra--a work he didn't yet know. Apart from looking through the score on the train on the way he virtually sight read it at performance. His own comment on it was 'I hope it didn't sound like it!"

The conductor did say that at times he was a little disconcerted to see Ogden peering round the edge of the pages as they were turned, looking to see what was coming next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

"Just after he co-won the Tchaikovsky competition in, I think, 1962, he was engaged to do a tour of the ABC where several concerti and consert programmes were required. The only thing he played from music was the Bliss piano concerto. When asked (by a member of the orchestra who related the story to me) why he used the music for that one piece his reply was 'Oh I I' ve just started learning it!'"

I have seen some amazing sight readers in my time but this blows them away with ease. Amazing that that soemone can just sight read something well enough to perform it in public without practice!

John Ogden's skills were legendary. Needless to say, his like does not come round very often!

[baiba]

brahms 2nd piano concerto, am also trying to play it on piano...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"John Ogden could also encompass virtually anything at sight. I recall hearing him interviewed on the subject and it transpired that as a students he was asked to play the Brahms 2 in Bb that evening with the Scottish National Orchestra--a work he didn't yet know. Apart from looking through the score on the train on the way he virtually sight read it at performance. His own comment on it was 'I hope it didn't sound like it!"

The conductor did say that at times he was a little disconcerted to see Ogden peering round the edge of the pages as they were turned, looking to see what was coming next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

"Just after he co-won the Tchaikovsky competition in, I think, 1962, he was engaged to do a tour of the ABC where several concerti and consert programmes were required. The only thing he played from music was the Bliss piano concerto. When asked (by a member of the orchestra who related the story to me) why he used the music for that one piece his reply was 'Oh I I' ve just started learning it!'"

I have seen some amazing sight readers in my time but this blows them away with ease. Amazing that that soemone can just sight read something well enough to perform it in public without practice!

I'm fascinated how these exceptional humans can do this - sight read great works of music of this difficulty - on the piano!

Is it the way they were taught piano as kids, and did they have excellent early piano tuition from great teachers, is it the way their brains are wired, is it a combination of factors, are they born this way , or is it something else? Any ideas? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[TshepoM]

i'm listening to shostakovich symphony number 8

[clavicembalo]

This afternoon's Prom, live from the Royal Albert Hall - Wayne Marshall at the organ, playing Wagner transcriptions/improvisations.

[maledictis]

I'm fascinated how these exceptional humans can do this - sight read great works of music of this difficulty - on the piano!

Is it the way they were taught piano as kids, and did they have excellent early piano tuition from great teachers, is it the way their brains are wired, is it a combination of factors, are they born this way , or is it something else? Any ideas? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I'm not in that league, but I'm a very good sight reader and I think it just comes with experience and hours put in. 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, sight reading for a dance school was a pretty good starting point!

[Fran*Piano]

brahms 2nd piano concerto, am also trying to play it on piano...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

"John Ogden could also encompass virtually anything at sight. I recall hearing him interviewed on the subject and it transpired that as a students he was asked to play the Brahms 2 in Bb that evening with the Scottish National Orchestra--a work he didn't yet know. Apart from looking through the score on the train on the way he virtually sight read it at performance. His own comment on it was 'I hope it didn't sound like it!"

The conductor did say that at times he was a little disconcerted to see Ogden peering round the edge of the pages as they were turned, looking to see what was coming next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

"Just after he co-won the Tchaikovsky competition in, I think, 1962, he was engaged to do a tour of the ABC where several concerti and consert programmes were required. The only thing he played from music was the Bliss piano concerto. When asked (by a member of the orchestra who related the story to me) why he used the music for that one piece his reply was 'Oh I I' ve just started learning it!'"

Good grief! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[TshepoM]

shostakovich symphony number 5

[barry-clari]

The end of the Sondheim Prom, before turning in for the night...

[TshepoM]

I am listening to Shostakovich's symphony number 11.

[Fran*Piano]

No Good Deed-Wicked

My voice project for over the summer-that many key changes should not be allowed!!

[clavicembalo]

Bach's Canonic Variations on Von Himmel Hoch, BWV 769, arranged by Stravinsky, live from the Proms.

Just before it Daniel Hyde played Bach's organ original

[rovikered]

Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 4, Op.40 played by Mikhail Rudy and the St Petersburg PO conducted by Mariss Jansons.

[baiba]

Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 4, Op.40 played by Mikhail Rudy and the St Petersburg PO conducted by Mariss Jansons.

Mikhail Rudy is my favourite living pianist (I'm assuming he is still alive (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ) I adore his interpretation of the Rach 4 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif)