Grand recital

[henrah]

Make sure you don't give them any baked beans, you don't want any farts going off and disrupting you.
Henrah

[jas]

Wow, that's an epic programme. If you're conscious by the end of it you'll deserve a medal. Or possibly a lie down! Sounds good, but are you sure you won't be too knackered by the end to manage La Campanella?

[tee_dee_es]

Wow, that's an epic programme. If you're conscious by the end of it you'll deserve a medal. Or possibly a lie down! Sounds good, but are you sure you won't be too knackered by the end to manage La Campanella?

i think i ma add a pair of scarlatti sonatas to start off the recitals. i need suggestions as to which ones would be great?

stamina, stamina! yeah,...thatd be the thing i wanna to find out for myself. starting next week, i'll play the whole program once everyday. if i can do this ok, then there should be no problem when touring. its all in the preparation. i just have to be able to sleep enough, eat healthy foods, and exercise everyday. yeah, i at times loss all my appetite before concerts. or should i take supplements?

[tee_dee_es]

Make sure you don't give them any baked beans, you don't want any farts going off and disrupting you.
Henrah

lol how bout alchohols?

[henrah]

Well my dad serves up a couple of bottles of wine to his audiences at the interval in the concerts he holds at our home, and I haven't seen anyone get completely rat-arsed and really disrupt the second half.
Henrah

[tee_dee_es]

the thing is i want my audience to be concentrating on the music  im playing. but ur right a lil bit of it should be ok, eh? but, wait.... what if someone or two happens to drink a bit too much n suddenly/happily decides to talk during concerts, or do funny things, u know... hmm, how about at the end? or not at all?

[jas]

i think i ma add a pair of scarlatti sonatas to start off the recitals. i need suggestions as to which ones would be great?

stamina, stamina! yeah,...thatd be the thing i wanna to find out for myself. starting next week, i'll play the whole program once everyday. if i can do this ok, then there should be no problem when touring. its all in the preparation. i just have to be able to sleep enough, eat healthy foods, and exercise everyday. yeah, i at times loss all my appetite before concerts. or should i take supplements?

I don't know much about supplements (or Scarlatti - sorry!), but eating well is important for concentration, energy and morale. I notice that at times when I've been eating really well I feel much more optimistic and upbeat about things than normally. I don't think it's unconnected. I'm not saying it'll make a difference to your playing, of course, but it might help you keep confident and looking forward to it, which is never a bad thing.

Jas

[tee_dee_es]

i remember chu fang huang played a number of scarlatti sonatas at cleveland competition ( and played it most spectacularly, too ). anyone remember which ones those were?

[finn magnus]

Maybe you should cut it down if its a risk for playing something bad.
If not; go for it!

People will remember a concert like that.

[pianowelsh]

I think you have chosen some really beautiful pieces here.  I would however gurad against playing two sonatas one after another - these are by no means small sonatas and people get restless if they cant clap for like 25-30 mins so to do it twice in a row might be more than an average audience can handle.  I think I would be carefull not to do three chronologically worked out sections either or it will feel like three  standard recitals one after the other.  I would also be tempted (depending on the audience) to throw in some shorter crowd pleasers on the last part - to pick up the pace ie Move the Chopin fantasy impromptu into the recital proper and maybe fling in some gershwin transcriptions or etudes or some rachmanivov/horowitz transcription where EVERYONE knows the tune - this will keep peoples anticipation up if thy arent so musically literate.  Much as i love Brahms im not sure I would put bothe the Bmin Rhapsody and the variations into the same programme (ok if its all brahms but otherwise i fear it may unbalance the programme) I would be tempted to put in some well known variation set like Mussorgsky's pictures - equally demanding and yet very accessible for a wide audience range.  A musically less literate audience will cope with one or two pig abstract works like sonatas preludes and fugues etc but they also need things whic they can easily get or they start to feel inadequate and this can be an offputting experience for them.  I think a danger in such a big programme as this is that people can get shut out.  You need a mix of very popular pieces (long and short) and also less well know and abstract pieces that will challenge and hopefully inspire the audience to look further.  I think La camp would work well as an encore - i do think given the length of the recital that fantasy impromptu is too long for an encore. keep the encores short and fast paced that way people will maintain their excitement and not go to sleep in the last leg.

[tds]

i been thinkin of adding 4 scarlatti sonatas instead of two, but still deciding which ones. any idea?

[kreso]

i been thinkin of adding 4 scarlatti sonatas instead of two, but still deciding which ones. any idea?

Listen Pogorelic, Pletnev and Schiff, Horowitz also-then you decide which ones you would like to play..

[tee_dee_es]

good idea. i dont have the cds, but have listened to some of them years ago. i'll go to amazon in a tick...

btw, i am not really sure of how many scarlatti sonatas would be best to open my recitals with; 2, 3, 4 or 5? hmm, 2 seems too skimpy, 3 ok, 4 square, how bout 5? *numerology, lol*

there is a shift of tour date: july-august.

any suggestion on the scarlatti?

[pianistimo]

i've always heard you can play them in pairs.  i tried K 119 with K 9 (d major/d minor)  pogorelich has some nice pairings too.   suppose five would be good if you somehow can make the connection between all of them and smoothly transition from one to the next. 

[kreso]

I think that you could start with 4 sonatas-chose one not-so-fast maybe to open recital and warm up your fingers, then fast one, than slow and virtuoso for the end of opening program..

[sauergrandson]

www.claudiocolombo.net      =   mp3 for almost all Scarlatti's Sonatas

[tee_dee_es]

i've always heard you can play them in pairs. i tried K 119 with K 9 (d major/d minor) pogorelich has some nice pairings too. suppose five would be good if you somehow can make the connection between all of them and smoothly transition from one to the next.

yeah, i heard the same ( or 3 sometimes ). I been to several recitals that started with 4-7 scarlatti sonatas, and they were all most effective and great. there should be more people play more scarlatti, methink.

I think that you could start with 4 sonatas-chose one not-so-fast maybe to open recital and warm up your fingers, then fast one, than slow and virtuoso for the end of opening program..

thats an idea. lets see what unfolds

www.claudiocolombo.net      =   mp3 for almost all Scarlatti's Sonatas

almost all scarlatti's sonatas. whoaaaa.....

thanks