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Topic: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)  (Read 2025 times)

Offline orlandopiano

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Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
on: August 09, 2005, 02:27:29 AM
This is an ultra compressed video, and it was not very good picture/sound quality to begin with, so just a warning. Also, it was taken 11 years ago...

https://www.savefile.com/files/3167497

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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
Reply #1 on: August 09, 2005, 03:11:09 AM
lol I think I saw this like a year ago or so at Chopin Files.. or something..
I remember the comments about the hair XD

nice job though :) very smooth
dynamic wise could have been a bit more, well, 'dynamic,' at times but that's prob just the old rec quality
anyway tis cool
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
Reply #2 on: August 09, 2005, 03:14:16 AM
lol I think I saw this like a year ago or so at Chopin Files.. or something..
I remember the comments about the hair XD

nice job though :) very smooth
dynamic wise could have been a bit more, well, 'dynamic,' at times but that's prob just the old rec quality
anyway tis cool

Someone in another thread asked me for more videos and this is one of the only ones I have on the computer.  Yes I did post it on Chopin files about a year ago, good memory.

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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
Reply #3 on: August 09, 2005, 07:52:49 PM
Wow....  Amazing.  And 11 years ago?
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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
Reply #4 on: August 10, 2005, 05:25:14 PM
i think the melody needs to stand out more... and i prefer it to be more gentle.

maybe its just the recording.

just my 2 pence.

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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude 23/7 video (small file too!)
Reply #5 on: August 11, 2005, 01:51:42 AM
i think the melody needs to stand out more... and i prefer it to be more gentle.

maybe its just the recording.

just my 2 pence.

Dazzer

You are absolutely right. It was played way too violently, and definitely needed to be more gentle. I think I played everything like that back in my undergraduate years. 

Just curious, which "melody" are you speaking of?
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