Beethoven - Concerto no 2 B-flat major (Live)

[pianohauk]

Searching through my collection I came across a CD with a recordig made when I was 15 (5 years ago). I'd won a competition that granted me the possibility to play with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. I played the second concerto by Beethoven (B-flat major). Please download and give me some feedback what you think

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[pianistimo]

you were 15?  your trills are very very mature and clean.  wow.  hate to see how you play now.  you have a sincerely good interpretation, imo, of beethoven's works.  i love your transitions! very very much.

the piano is so in tune.  it makes the concerto SOOOO enjoyable, too.  if only every piano could be tuned by a good tuner.

[dr_gradus_ad_parnassum]

this is incredible! you seem to be a child prodigy! where do you study now?

[pianohauk]

Thanks for your kind comments, both!

pianistimo: I was 15 yes, and to be honest, I just found out I have another username here, haukmarki. You can find some recordings with me from fall 2005 at least, but idd not on a tuned piano like that (and not a clean recording). The piano was a Steinway D, pretty new, but tuned by one of the best tuners in Norway. The location was the Grieghallen in Bergen. A wonderful hall with approx. room for 2000 people. I will soon record a CD (after the summer) with all Edvard Grieg's sonatas for violin and piano. Will post them here. Also, I do have a demo for that already, so will post if wanted asap.

dr: First, thanks a lot for the compliment. But a child prodigy? Well, pracitsing makes wonders I study in Norway, in Kristiansand, with a rather unknown teacher. Last year I studied a year with Jiri Hlinka, the teacher of Leif Ove Andsnes in Oslo. I take the first year atm of my bachelor in music (not the teaching, just the performing).

Again, thanks

[pianistimo]

good thing you chose performing.  people would be mad at you if you chose teaching.  you can always teach - but can't always learn more about performing when you have the time.  (perhaps i am too overambitious towards performing and should have stuck to pedagogy, myself - but the thing is - when i take a lesson - i consider it also a sort of pedagogy lesson.  if you take notes - it's a very good thing to use for future reference).

i would do the same thing all over again.  get a performance degree.  BUT, i would definately get a double degree.  no matter how good you play (from my perspective) - you always need some money for the practice time you want to have.  nobody really pays you for practice time - so you need to make it for yourself.  anything.  computers.  whatever.  just one other subject that you study as hard and diligently as piano.  after all - piano probably comes easy for you.

unless - you are independently wealthy or have connections (people who take you in and feed and shelter you).  that's just my opinion.

hope you DO post the grieg soon!

[pianohauk]

Yeah true. I will definetly take a year with teaching when I have finished my performing studies, just to have something to fall back, just in case. Or, when I think of it: It will be very useful anyway, considered the fact that I definetly will do some kind of teaching in the future, together with (hopefully) with concerts and stuff.

I am not rich at all, but I do have connections around, and my teacher is usign far more time on me than he is suppose to. I mean, I can demand 1 hour every week, but he gives me 4-5. At least!

I will post Grieg soon