Conerto for piano and... CD

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When you want to learn a concerto and have no available orchestra or player for a duo arrangement, what do you do ?

Do you find practical to learn it and perform it with a CD ? Hard with the tempos... Has anyone tried ?

And which concerti can be played by themselves, with no accompaniement, without sounding bad ?

[Snuffel]

Have you though of creating your own "orchestra" using a computer. I use a program called NoteWorthy which isn't too expensive. This gives you complete control over both tempo and dynamics.
The downside is that you will have to enter the score into the computer which is time consuming but this does help in getting familiar with what the orchestra is doing.

Regards

Tom

[golliwogg]

You can also just download a MIDI file of the concerto and mute the piano part. The audio quality will strongly depend on the sound card you're using to play it, and it is often pretty awful. But it might help you practize. You can find lots of classic MIDI files under https://www.classicalarchives.com/

There's also a collection of CDs, called "Music Minus One" ( www.musicminusone.com ) that has recordings of real orchestras playing without soloist. I didn't try it, but it looks interesting (but i can't figure out how will it work at the entrances of the orchestra after the cadenzas...)

Cheers,
GW

[eddie92099]

Perhaps the post-cadenza recording is on the following track,
Ed