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Topic: improvisations to enjoy (Read 3018 times)

kunia

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improvisations to enjoy

on: July 28, 2008, 11:00:32 AM

A good friend of mine who is talented pianist recorded some improvisations of his own ...
here are two of them...
what's your opinion about that???

01.mp3 (7571.63 kB - downloaded 43 times.)

02.Karavan.mp3 (10009.59 kB - downloaded 39 times.)

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thierry13

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Re: virtuoso improvisations to enjoy

Reply #1 on: July 29, 2008, 06:00:59 AM

I only listened to the first one but I fail to see anything coming anywhere close to what would be called "virtuosity". The improv was not bad but the title innapropriate.

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kunia

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Re: improvisations to enjoy

Reply #2 on: July 31, 2008, 02:26:32 PM

if you are interested to check wherther he is virtuoso, or not... you can download some albums of his improvisations from his Web-site: https://pavelignatyev.com/
but he is really tellented pianist.

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iheartpiano

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Re: improvisations to enjoy

Reply #3 on: August 01, 2008, 03:45:43 PM

I usually don't listen to improvs but I thought these were quite lovely. Thanks for sharing.

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kunia

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Re: improvisations to enjoy

Reply #4 on: August 07, 2008, 01:51:58 PM

Oh, I'm glad that you like them

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