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> Whats The Hardest Piece People Can Play?
recorderzrule
post Jun 4 2006, 08:22 PM
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For stamina - Vivaldi G minor sonata (tr recorder)
For stress value - Czardas. Still need to master it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
Fun piece - Krahmer Variations! They're fab.
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crazy_purple_piano_freak
post Jun 5 2006, 08:54 AM
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QUOTE(Noodelz @ Jun 4 2006, 07:39 PM) *
Joe Hisaishi does the music to the Studio Ghibli films (Hayao Miyazaki and that) and Uematsu is a video games composer. He's most famous for doing the music to Final Fantasy.


Took the words right out of my mouth! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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bobifier
post Jun 5 2006, 08:00 PM
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Depends on how you deem hardest. I can play a real flashy piece that many people would have alot of difficulty getting their fingers around, but I found it easy. But then there's dynamics and different sounds that you can do with pressign notes differently and I have actually given up on pieces a grade below my standard because it's too hard for me.

I'd have to say, though, it would actually be a viola piece. Entitled, rather inventively, 'Allegro'. It was a G6 A piece.

That and the G7 piece 'Vocalise'.
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TIE53
post Jun 5 2006, 08:42 PM
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Cello: Ginastera- Puena No. 2
Clarinet: I guess the Martino- Set for Clarinet
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Annetta
post Jun 19 2006, 08:38 AM
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The hardest piece I have ever done is in singing and it is called Oh Bid Your Faithful Ariel Fly from the Tempest...don't know if anyone has heard of it !

If you haven't it has really fast and hard triplet runs going up and down the scale over an octave!

Annetta
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Frederic Chopin
post Jun 19 2006, 02:31 PM
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The third movement of Beethoven's Les Adieux is one of my favourites.
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Oddball
post Jun 19 2006, 04:44 PM
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Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor...would love to be able to play the Pathetique...
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weejen
post Jun 21 2006, 09:46 AM
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I think it would have to be Gary Schocker's Regrets and Resolutions for flute! Fab piece that I love to bits but takes a lot of hard work to get it good!
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thomas
post Jun 23 2006, 09:38 AM
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I think the toughest piece would be islamey,but it doesn't mean tough pieces sound good always.
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petrat
post Jun 23 2006, 11:19 AM
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The hardest piece that I play is The Flight of the Bumble Bee on comb and paper! Alas, I have played it to audiences too. (Usually at parties, so nobody has actually had to pay to hear it!) I learnt to play some of it on the bass recorder but never felt the need to finish it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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jod
post Jun 23 2006, 12:00 PM
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On an emotional front, it's "The embroidery aria" from Peter Grimes
Intonation wise "Nacht" by Alban Berg.
Interestingly I don't find "Der Holle Rache" that hard as "Marten Alle Arten" from "Die entfuhrung as der Serail" requires more stamina.

I think the hardest thing I sang was a friends student composition that half of the lecturers in the music department said was "impossible" Certainly there wasn't another soprano in the department that would even consider trying to learn it!
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Pianist53
post Jun 24 2006, 06:12 PM
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The hardest piece that I play is The Flight of the Bumble Bee on comb and paper! Alas, I have played it to audiences too. (Usually at parties, so nobody has actually had to pay to hear it!) I learnt to play some of it on the bass recorder but never felt the need to finish it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


Wow! How do you do that?
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petrat
post Jun 24 2006, 06:50 PM
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The hardest piece that I play is The Flight of the Bumble Bee on comb and paper! Alas, I have played it to audiences too. (Usually at parties, so nobody has actually had to pay to hear it!) I learnt to play some of it on the bass recorder but never felt the need to finish it.



Wow! How do you do that?

The comb and paper thing or the recorder? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
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Pianist53
post Jun 25 2006, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE(petrat @ Jun 24 2006, 07:50 PM) *

The hardest piece that I play is The Flight of the Bumble Bee on comb and paper! Alas, I have played it to audiences too. (Usually at parties, so nobody has actually had to pay to hear it!) I learnt to play some of it on the bass recorder but never felt the need to finish it.



Wow! How do you do that?

The comb and paper thing or the recorder? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)


The comb and paper thing! Sounds really hard >_<
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petrat
post Jun 25 2006, 09:24 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) A comb and paper is a fine toothed comb with greaseproof paper wrapped around it, just one layer. You place it quite firmly against your lips and sing through it and the sound is something like that of a bee stuck in a jam jar. This wonderful instrument has the advantage of being very inexpensive and is a good substitute for the crumhorn where economy is a deciding factor. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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