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Post by theevan on Feb 21, 2023 10:37:24 GMT -5
This is the girl that interpreted for me at a Russian-language church in Vienna. A year younger than my daughter. Piano reduction of the well-known orchestral score.
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Post by david on Feb 21, 2023 21:20:49 GMT -5
I am impressed by her dexterity and memory
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 21, 2023 23:51:47 GMT -5
Her skill is remarkable. The piece itself isn’t all that listenable.
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 21, 2023 23:53:04 GMT -5
Her skill is remarkable. The piece itself isn’t all that listenable. Just too frantic. |
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Post by howard lee on Feb 22, 2023 12:54:05 GMT -5
I have always thought composers write music like this piece just so the more talented pianists can show off. She's terrific on the 88s, but can she make a perfectly balanced Bolognese or hang a bookshelf?
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Feb 22, 2023 13:54:14 GMT -5
An example of doing extremely well something I'd just as soon wasn't done at all.
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Post by TKennedy on Feb 22, 2023 14:18:39 GMT -5
Wow!! I liked it.
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Post by Dub on Feb 22, 2023 14:26:03 GMT -5
This is the girl that interpreted for me at a Russian-language church in Vienna. A year younger than my daughter. Piano reduction of the well-known orchestral score. That is just wonderful! Astonishing and amazing. As Evan says, it's a piano reduction of an orchestral score. Try listening while thinking of it as an orchestral performance. You can hear the strings and horns as each takes its parts. The timpani is in there. You can almost see the conductor. What focus and dedication. |
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Post by RickW on Feb 22, 2023 15:38:24 GMT -5
I admire people that can play a piece like that and make it musical, and she does. It’s fascinating to watch. But to sit and listen to it, not so much. And I do like complex music.
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Post by epaul on Feb 22, 2023 16:59:50 GMT -5
That is just wonderful! Astonishing and amazing. As Evan says, it's a piano reduction of an orchestral score. Try listening while thinking of it as an orchestral performance. You can hear the strings and horns as each takes its parts. The timpani is in there. You can almost see the conductor... Say, um, Dub, you haven't just come back from a lunch date with Factory Chef? |
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Post by Dub on Feb 22, 2023 17:02:15 GMT -5
That is just wonderful! Astonishing and amazing. As Evan says, it's a piano reduction of an orchestral score. Try listening while thinking of it as an orchestral performance. You can hear the strings and horns as each takes its parts. The timpani is in there. You can almost see the conductor... Say, um, Dub, you haven't just come back from a lunch date with Factory Chef? And the trombones! OMG the trombones were to die for. |
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Post by epaul on Feb 22, 2023 17:08:05 GMT -5
Oh, Lucky guy. I'll give it a try with beer tonight, otherwise... Bob?
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Post by Dub on Feb 22, 2023 17:35:35 GMT -5
Oh, Lucky guy. I'll give it a try with beer tonight, otherwise... Bob? Well, you can’t go wrong with Bob. |
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Post by John B on Feb 22, 2023 21:29:37 GMT -5
My brain has trouble processing the music that fast, and I know I could never play anything that fast. It is pretty amazing, though.
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Post by james on Feb 22, 2023 23:29:38 GMT -5
On the same Gerrman piano festival YouTube channel, a pianist called Jura Margulis is shown playing the same piece a bit slower.
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Post by Russell Letson on Feb 22, 2023 23:43:43 GMT -5
Not for the first time, I'm reminded of this passage from "The Dead" (which I had to look up to make sure I had it right): Gabriel could not listen while Mary Jane was playing her Academy piece, full of runs and difficult passages, to the hushed drawing-room. He liked music but the piece she was playing had no melody for him and he doubted whether it had any melody for the other listeners, though they had begged Mary Jane to play something. Four young men, who had come from the refreshment-room to stand in the doorway at the sound of the piano, had gone away quietly in couples after a few minutes. The only persons who seemed to follow the music were Mary Jane herself, her hands racing along the key-board or lifted from it at the pauses like those of a priestess in momentary imprecation, and Aunt Kate standing at her elbow to turn the page. FWIW, I found the second piano version more musical, but neither of them is as musical as the orchestral version (which, if Wikipedia is correct, is an orchestration of the original piano piece): |
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Post by james on Feb 23, 2023 0:08:26 GMT -5
In the orchestral version YouTube comments, in response to a query the LSO channel confirm the Wikipedia entry.
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