Piano room humidity min/max

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@Big_Al said in Piano room humidity min/max:

I'll listen to the version I was looking for and then a couple of other ones for variety.

I love doing that!

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@AndyD said in Piano room humidity min/max:

Of course I'd love to be able to play Rach the way Gilels can, his playing of prelude 5 shows how! And I occasionally try, deafening the dog

Ah, yes, I used to massacre that one also, but it's been a very long time...

If the dog is looking for a change, maybe try the op 3 no 2 in C# minor

Or pick one from here:

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It's a live recording.

[Big_Al]

Browsing YouTube brought up this rendition of "After You've Gone" by Emmet Cohen and friends:

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Wistful songs are a staple of the Great American Songbook.

When I play, it's very likely to be something similar. One of my perennial favorites is this (I brought it to Kluur's Chicagoland piano party):

I noodle through a stack of sheet music now and then as well, some I inherited from my father and some I bought myself.

Big Al

[AndyD]

Wtg
Benny Goodman... my wife bought a cheap clarinet earlier this year and I'm hoping she'll play like that
But then I got her a really fabulous Iwao flute some years ago and she's no James Galway.

Thanks for Lukas Geniuasus. He is the nearest to Gilels I've heard. Did he play all the preludes one after the other live?

[AndyD]

Big Al
That music you posted...
I learnt Oscar P's solo version of Isn't it Romantic
And the Steinway Standards version of My funny valentine (vol 6?)
And can fumble through the other two. Lovely tunes.

I can't play fast jazz other than learnt ragtime. My limitation...

[AndyD]

Pique
Enjoying your book, currently in the middle of the search

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@AndyD said in Piano room humidity min/max:

Thanks for Lukas Geniuasus. Did he play all the preludes one after the other live?

Yes, apparently he did.

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Dec/Rachmaninov_preludes_PCL0078.htm

He is the nearest to Gilels I've heard.

There may be a reason for that.

I stumbled upon an interesting bit of trivia about Lukas' grandmother and teacher, Vera Gornostaeva, while diving down into some internet rabbit holes....

Vera Gornostaeva was born in 1929 and studied in Moscow with Heinrich Neuhaus, who also taught Richter, Gilels and Radu Lupu.

And Gornostaeva, in turn, taught Gilels' daughter Elena.

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Feb/Gornostaeva_piano_1012.htm

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Here he is doing the complete Chopin etudes.

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Generally speaking we Lithuanians have a lot of stamina.

However, our piano playing skills vary widely.

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Vera teaching a 10 year old Primakov.

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[AndyD]

That woman becomes a part of the piano.
She sits and is simply fabulous, what touch.
My old piano teacher was a bit like her, you'd never guess this kindly 80 year old had such talent. She'd sit and suddenly become a concert pianist.

Suddenly I was reminded of Barenboim materclassing Lang Lang