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It sounds rather Xmassy, doesn't it? The score of Indianische Tagebuch is on my piano at the mo - but not started yet!

Already Canzona serenata! (1:33 - 1:36) 😄

@@itchy2345 It's a special composer who can insert a quote from his Op. 38 into his Op.2.

@@DavidMannMD 😆

Thank you for listening both, too!

There are much better ones meanwhile! Medtner is getting increasingly popular. My favourite one is Zlata Chochieva.

@@itchy2345 I see, yes, her performance is very good too, but I wouldn't say better, and of course she had the benefit of a 9-foot piano. When I get a chance to play one of those, I always feel like I can do stuff I could never do before.

Also, my new piano teacher sent me a link to a performance by Malofeev. Who I remembered from the Tchaikovsky competition several years ago, where he seemed to be trying to set some sort of speed record for some of the things he played. Which made his ultra-slow performance of the Canzona unexpected.

@@crystal130h Malofeev, I'd like to hear his solo live! I think he tries to play somehow differently each time and experimenting, which makes his playing so fresh.

I searched around "whale" piano pieces before recording this but many contain fifth chords with pedal.

Ohhh it's the opposite: Pärt was raised by whales! /s

@@Wiilly くじら先生に感謝！？(rubbish!)

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同じ曲で同じピアノです😁

N's whale died, but mine was just sad! (Neither of us listened to recordings and N didn't listen to my version either.)

The incredible fact also was that he was only 16!

​@@itchy2345 While Medtner dated No. 1 "1896", that can only be the year he first wrote down some of the ideas. There is a "Nixe-lied" sketch for violin and piano from around that time as well. The piece seems like it was largely completed around 1900. Medtner probably kept making changes to it as well, since it wasn't published until 1904. Unfortunately Medtner really was not much of a precocious composer. 😢

@@NKMedtner Thanks for your input. Not bad as Schubert or Reger, who composed like a music treadmill and not bother to check afterwards!

Now I found several Ondine piano pieces in imslp. Not only Ravel or Debussy, Chaminade, Anton Rubinstein, J. Schulhoff and many more!

Thanks! They might be the beginning of Skazki idea.

Young Kolya was full of imagination!

Maybe even more often... 10 seconds is a long time in music (like a week is a long time in politics)😉

Ondine is French version for water nimph, isn't it? The idea is that the beautiful water lady lures men into the water and drawn them. Hence unhappy ending.🧜‍♀

@@itchy2345 Yes, it's the name of the water spirit in the french version of the story (the novella Undine by Fouqué).

Yes, I see what you mean especially at the beginning.

Reinecke's flute sonata based on this story is somewhat earlier and rather good (well, the first movement is). It takes Mendelssohn as a model: not Brahms, so you won't have an allergic reaction if you listen to it 😆

@@itchy2learn Haha, thanks for the tip! Interesting. I don't want to imagine a Brahms version of Ondine :D "Ondine in der Blasmusikkapelle"

Sadly I forget easily as well!

Ambitious and adventurous!

@@itchy2345 Good qualities to have!

@@paulprocopolis I changed to "Fantasy Improvisations" now. Although the title in the score "Fantastische Improvisationen" would be translated to english "fantastic", I think it's more suitable like Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. The early edition's title was "Improvisations" only.

Hot!

In Autumn, sure!🍂

I wanted to show the hammers inside at the same time but it didn't come up so clearly🙃

Ohhh now I see!

こちらのグレード試験の課題曲になることがあるんです。imslpでダウンロードできます。

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I think I made sure to change with the chord so that the harmonie doesn't get blurry or mushy. Good luck!

@@itchy2345 thank you very much for your response! The piece is very fun if played properly!

Who said that Medtner was born with Sonata form? I like all his Sonatas, just can't face learning NW and SonRemi! (Too many pianists have done😂) I perform occasionally as a part of music club or local events but not so much solo recital.

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ps for those who don't know, yes, this is a song from a musical, you should listen to it with the lyrics, it's quite nice. I didn't know it before watching the musical and it planted itself into my head quite firmly with its wistfulness. And I'm absolutely not a musical fan.

I also occasionally played a simple four hands version with pupils. They absoltely love it :)

I did it!! 🥳

Very much appreciated, thank you for the comment!

I was fascinated by SH's recording so we bought the score and looked through - it was too hard for me too (more than 20 years ago). Now I revisited and sticked at it. Still not good as his recording but it was not the point! I managed to learn my favourite things!☺

Thanks!

First time when I started learning it, I gave up in the first page! (long time ago)😅 Thank you!

ありがとうございます。ぜひハフの演奏も聴いてみて！

Le pas espanol…magnificently played, wow!

@@RobertOlsonpiano Thank you! Despite the piano it went well :)

@@itchy2345 yes it did.

Me too, we had fun playing them through in the house party in our student time. Sometimes we had to swap the partners, it was particularly funny when we were drunk!

🤴Thanks!

特に子守歌はイギリスのラジオ番組で昔使われていたらしくて、これを弾き始めると古い世代の観客の方から郷愁のため息が出てくるんです。ピアノはもう古くて修理をしてもダメです。Carl Ecke (Berlin, Dresden, Posen), 製造1916年と書かれてあります。

@@itchy2345 100年以上前のピアノなんですね！ラジオのエピソードと相まってなんだか懐かしい響きがしますね。

@@morinoroba フォーレ没後１００年ということで演奏したのに、ラジオのテーマ曲としてしか知らない人の方が多かったりして☺

@@itchy2345 今年はそうなんですね！

Thanks! This is my favourite Huffy-thing too!😸

I have second take here, I think/hope, it's better recorded even though I look a bit tired at the intro...😅 czcams.com/video/OiQ-0hagyzE/video.html

Me too! Yul Brunner's reactions to each cheeky children😆 I also relearned this as second time here after having it neglected for many many years. Maybe you could still try it again.

@@itchy2345 Maybe. It looks a bit nasty. On that note though, have you ever tried your hand at the My Favorite Things transcription? I picked it up thinking I'd have a easy crowd pleaser, and instead I got a piece that felt like a tightrope act everytime I performed it. Unfortunately for me though, it was very much so loved by audiences, so I kept ended up keeping it around despite the stress it caused me.

@@MikeN275 I can imagine. "My favorite things" is not my favourite thing to perform live because it's much harder than it sounds! Actually Sir Stephen plays differently from the score (slightly easier IMO) so, I "transcribed" his version and started practising it a couple of weeks ago!🤭

@@itchy2345 I absolutely agree with you as far as the differences between the recording and the score. Frankly, I think the easier more succinct version that Hough himself plays is definitely easier and I think it sounds better too. Of course, I didn't notice the differences and learned it as written adding to my angst.

A cheerful march!🥁

Thanks, the violin did justice to this poor old piano!

Not bad for only one rehearsal!😅

@@itchy2345 That’s impressive!

We like it, audience like it, the ending is good - perfect piano duet music even on a battered piano! Thanks for listening.

@@itchy2345 Definitely!

Thanks! I specially made an effort to immitate a cat from 8:34 (not very convincing!) Do you think Fauré was Hélène's (Dolly) father...?😼