Another piano recording
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I shared this in the Piano Tell Recital, please listen if you have a minute.
Link to videoMy comments for the PT recital:
Source of music: Sheet music from the composer's official collection
Instrument: Yamaha C2 grand
Recording method: iPhone
Additional info: I tried to play this years ago, in fact, my notes show I tried to play it in 2007 and again in 2011, but it was too hard and I gave up before getting it up to tempo and polished. It's probably still too hard in some ways, but I'm very pleased to be able to share it with everyone here now, after so many years!Joe Hisaishi is most well-known for doing the music to the Ghibli anime movies, but he has a lot of other compositions as well. Hana Bi is a piece from a movie that he originally scored for orchestra. In the Encore collection (linked above) he took many of his most popular compositions and rearranged them for solo piano (well I guess some of the pieces in the book were originally solo piano, but this one wasn't).
Hana Bi (usually written hanabi, 花火) means fireworks, but the individual kanji mean flower-fire (in that order). I read an interview with him once where he talked about his choice to write it with the alphabet and the space, to make it ambiguous as to whether he meant fireworks or flowers and fire. I like to think of this piece as being a little bit dark and a little bit showy, with some of the anticipation you get while waiting for the next burst of fireworks.
Comments I’ve added for WTF:
After playing it for a long time without listening to the original, I listened again and it’s instructive to note that the composer plays it much more slowly than I do for the first half, and then for the second half, I’m about at the same tempo as he is. But that temporal contrast adds a lot of musicality (that I’m missing). Also, I will refrain from criticizing my RH which should be quiet when the LH has the melody, but that’s another element to focus on as I move toward polishing this piece.Here’s the PT recital: https://forum.pianotell.com/d/1910-pianotell-recital-5-is-now-live
There a lot of gems there, but I particularly love the piece and the playing by rach3master:
https://forum.pianotell.com/d/1910-pianotell-recital-5-is-now-live/18 -
Thank you @CHAS and @Mark
A few weeks I was about to give up on this piece (again), so I'm glad I didn't!@Mark if you liked that piece by Rach3Master, check out this one, I love it! I bought the score but it's way beyond me!
Link to videobtw I've never heard of that video game (which is irrelevant because I don't play video games!)
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Wow, that's a beautiful piece. And Wow! for your playing as well. Some leaping in the left hand, octave runs, and wide intervals. Very nice!
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Thanks for sharing that with us. It was very beautiful and your performance was excellent.
What software are you using on the tablet? It seemed to change pages very precisely.
Big Al
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Thanks for sharing that with us. It was very beautiful and your performance was excellent.
What software are you using on the tablet? It seemed to change pages very precisely.
Big Al
@Big_Al thank you!!
I’m using forScore to display the scores and a Bluetooth foot pedal to turn the pages with my left foot. It works very well! I’ve been doing this for years now, I’m so used to it that even when I’m looking at a paper score, I move my left foot trying to turn the page!!
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Thanks for the answer. That looks a lot more convenient to use than the piles of books and sheet music I have near my piano.
Big Al
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I have been thinking of getting a tablet. I follow two Vloggers, both organists, who use tablets and a software that recognizes a twitch they make with their mouth that activates a page turn. Every once in a while one can catch them twitching... there's a reason for it.
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Thanks for the answer. That looks a lot more convenient to use than the piles of books and sheet music I have near my piano.
Big Al
Thanks @Jodi !
@Big_Al said in Another piano recording:
That looks a lot more convenient to use than the piles of books and sheet music I have near my piano.
Yep, it's super convenient! Besides ease of having tons of scores in a thin tablet, and the page-turning assistance, I also like that I don't have to worry about a thick book falling off the music stand.
@Bernard I'm pretty sure some people at PW, or PT, have talking about the face gestures for turning thing. forScore has it but I think you have to have a subscription? I don't remember.
I can't imagine trying to turn the page by making a face, I'd probably crack up!
But yes, for the organists, your feet will be occupied so you'd need an alternative option!
