Another piano video

[ShiroKuro]

I’m playing two pieces in a recital on Sunday. This is piece number one. Wishing by Alexis Ffrench.

Link to video

The other piece is New Day which I think I shared a row rice recording of a whole back.

[Bernard]

A lovely piece of music! For some reasons it evokes a day off from school! Very nicely played, SK. Much enjoyed it, thanks!

[Jodi]

That’s really pretty.

[ShiroKuro]

@Jodi @Bernard thank you both for listening!!

@Bernard said in Another piano video:

A lovely piece of music! For some reasons it evokes a day off from school! Very nicely played, SK. Much enjoyed it, thanks!

That’s a fun image!!

[AndyD]

Beautiful, tearfully beautiful. 'Wishing' sorrowfully was how I felt it.
(Maybe a teenytiny bit slower and maybe some slightly quieter/rubato bits and you will have me in tears!)

Lovely playing ShiroKuro

[ShiroKuro]

Thank you @AndyD

RE the tempo, yep, exactly!! I want to play it a little slower, I think it brings out something different, more emotional, at a lower tempo. But I get nervous and speed up

The recital is tomorrow!

[AndyD]

I'm the same with Cavatina, which on the film Deerhunter is slooooow.
(I try to imagine Cleo Lane singing it slowly)

[ShiroKuro]

@AndyD said in Another piano video:

Cavatina

Ohhh yes, that's another one where tempo is super important! (I mean, it's always important...)

As I recall, I have a nice piano arrangement of that, but I never did much more than play through it a few times.

[Rontuner]

You always find such delightful pieces! Well done, and the piano sounded nice too. It's always a challenge with slower pieces to emulate a singing tone for the melody. You might try playing the longer notes just a little louder to give them "room" to sustain?

[ShiroKuro]

@Rontuner said in Another piano video:

Well done, and the piano sounded nice too.

Thanks Ron!!

@Rontuner said in Another piano video:

It's always a challenge with slower pieces to emulate a singing tone for the melody. You might try playing the longer notes just a little louder to give them "room" to sustain?

This is excellent advice, and I'd like to strive for that... but I don't really have the control I'd like, IOW when I'm recording, I get nervous and actually I'm playing faster than I want to. And the LH is so ever-present that I find it hard to truly bring out the RH.

Well, and even when not recording, I find I can have a more accurate performance, or a more musical performance, but rarely both.

[Rontuner]

Ha - I totally understand!

Sometimes it helps me to think of those notes as where I'm aiming - the rest leads to or away from those. It gives a sense of direction for my mind...