Home
Piano Music
Piano Music Library
Audiovisual Study Tool
Search pieces
All composers
Top composers »
Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Debussy
Grieg
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Liszt
Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
Schubert
Schumann
Scriabin
All composers »
All pieces
Recommended Pieces
PS Editions
Instructive Editions
Recordings
Recent additions
Free piano sheet music
News & Articles
PS Magazine
News flash
New albums
Livestreams
Article index
Piano Forum
Resources
Music dictionary
E-books
Manuscripts
Links
Mobile
About
About PS
Help & FAQ
Contact
Forum rules
Pricing
Log in
Sign up
Piano Forum
Home
Help
Search
Piano Forum
»
Piano Board
»
Audition Room
»
Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Topic: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
(Read 3256 times)
quantum
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 6266
Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
on: April 26, 2007, 08:47:11 AM
I arrived early to set up the recording gear for the Canadian women's concert:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,24673.0.html
The only other person that was there was the sound tech for the hall. So I decided to warm up and do some sound checks before the other performers arrived. I had fun playing on the Kawai concert grand. I thought, recording gear + recital hall + nice piano + I need a sound check, why not record something.
I originally wanted to do this piece for the concert but someone else wanted to play it too, but ended up not doing that either. The piece calls from a lot of hammered effects, but I didn't want to put the piano out of tune before the concert so I held back a little on the hammered parts.
I posted a home recording of this piece about two years ago here:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,11177.0.html
Mics: (2x) Studio Projects B1
Interface: Edirol UA-25
Piano: Kawai EX
Logged
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach
rachfan
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 3026
Re: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Reply #1 on: April 30, 2007, 08:43:25 PM
Hi quantum,
First, I give you a lot of credit for taking on a difficult, modern score like this one. It has dissonances, various scalar modes, changing meters, odd rhythms, and interspersed minimalist motifs, surprising twists, and much more. Very difficult to be sure! I have to leave this kind of piece to you and other pianists of the newer generation. I doubt I could even interpret the directions for playing it, ha-ha!
Anyway, it seems to come very naturally to you, and you play this music (Canadian composer, I believe) with great thoughtfulness and poetry. You bring not only musicianship to this score, but tremendous introspection and reflection as well, and make it very colorful, listenable and sensual. I believe an audience, even those not much into modern music, would appreciate your performance tremendously (and of Ancient Garden--where you have to get inside the piano--as well). You seem to have a natural feel for this style. Great job!
Logged
Interpreting music means exploring the promise of the potential of possibilities.
quantum
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 6266
Re: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Reply #2 on: May 02, 2007, 01:45:42 AM
rachfan, thank you for listening!
I do have to admit that I feel a connection with modern music such as this. I find that in order to give such music a voice and substance you really have to listen carefully to the sonority of piano and really adjust your playing to enhance and bring out the variety sound that can come from such music.
Logged
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach
arensky
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 2324
Re: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Reply #3 on: May 07, 2007, 06:12:08 PM
This is great playing quantum! Your sensitivity to the tone throughout the registers of the piano is remarkable; everything is always crystal clear. Percussive, but never ugly. Your technique is also very clear and suited to this music. Not only do you feel the connection, you make me hear it too. Great job!
This is my first hearing of Louie's music. It's obviously derivative of Messiaen but I enjoyed it on it's own merits, good stuff.
Logged
= o o =
\ ' /
"One never knows about another one, do one?" Fats Waller
nanabush
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 2081
Re: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Reply #4 on: May 09, 2007, 12:07:59 PM
Oh man I love that piece
I've heard about three different interpretations of it, but this one's the most convincing! Awesome playing!
Logged
Interested in discussing:
-Prokofiev Toccata
-Scriabin Sonata 2
rob47
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 997
Re: Louie - I leap through the sky with stars (on a nice piano / recital hall)
Reply #5 on: May 09, 2007, 07:11:00 PM
man this is tits-wicked! never heard of this composer but true s/he's awesome
thanks
Logged
"Phenomenon 1 is me"
-Alexis Weissenberg
Sign-up to post reply
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!
Search on Piano Street