Thirds...

[tengstrand]

I realized now that the camera is not showing Shan-shan when she is really playing the thirds...I'm thinking of putting up that passage in slow-motion with the camera following her hands.The thirds are VERY fast, and in both hands...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9WwQvwEF8#GU5U2spHI_4

Per

[pianistimo]

are the thirds together or a sort of rocking thirds?  i loved this duo.  i'm just wondering why so much movement in the air, though?  don't you have more opportunity to lose your spot?  also, what about coming down from such a distance and causing 'key slap?'  the hardest you can get the hammers to perform is basically your limit on any piano. 

i like, however, the energy that you pull with the piece and from each other.   if you were both not to know that anyone was watching - and performed this piece much closer to the keys - i'd the sound quality better (lacking extraneous noises and unwanted harmonics - unless you wanted those harmonics).

but, this is very picky and probably very rude of me to say.  sorry!  it's just that when you post on a forum -you're bound to get critical review sometimes.  it's not like we're the basic audience that's going 'oh, look - they can play thirds.'  it's sound quality, too.

***I LOVED IT!  the cossack ride was definately a cossack ride!

[teresa_b]

I have one comment:  WOW!!! 

Fabulous.
Teresa

[cmg]

I have one comment:  WOW!!! 

Fabulous.
Teresa

I agree! 

I can't believe this post has been almost totally ignored.  These pianists are fabulous.  The Waxman piece is great fun . . . if you don't die of fright playing it, of course.

[nanabush]

Holy crap.