New interesting recital videos of works by Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Scriabin

[doxy]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am delighted to invite you, if you have few minutes to spare, to look and hear full video clips from my recent concerts, including works by Bach, Scriabin, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel.

My best,
Doxy

[00range]

I quite enjoyed your Scarlatti; K380 is one of my favorites.

[zong]

Great polish and "reckless virtuosity" as Gould would say. Would love to hear some Bach/Bach.

[piano121]

Congrats! you are a quite amazing pianist. I love your Pavane, The Bach/Siloti is beautifull. But waht I like most was the Scherzo... That piece is fantastic, an you play it so well. Incredible talent and technique to bring out that nice sound from an up right piano! Wich piano was that?  thanks for sharing!

[doxy]

Congrats! you are a quite amazing pianist. I love your Pavane, The Bach/Siloti is beautifull. But waht I like most was the Scherzo... That piece is fantastic, an you play it so well. Incredible talent and technique to bring out that nice sound from an up right piano! Wich piano was that?  thanks for sharing!

Dear Colleagues,
Thanks very much for your comments, much appreciated.
Doxy

[pianistimo]

you are THE dorian griner, of which i happened upon when googling something about 'best pianist in england.'  well.  now look what you've reduced yourself to.  piano street piano forum.  do not get involved with piano forums.  they suck it out of you.  look at me.  i broke my leg shortly afterwards.  you belong on grammophone forum.

obviously, you do not need us telling you what you need to improve.  but, since you asked for it.  mr. dorian griner, i will tell you.  ok.  in the scarlatti - do something with the scales.  they are too perpendicular.  your trills are magnificent. 

the scriabin.  who am i to comment.  i've never played any of scriabin.  but, i feel you lack just a very tiny amount of bass trashing.  it just impresses people.  and, a sort of 'fortitude' to just get a sort of momentum going so it kinda crashes at the end.  similar to rachmaninov preludes. 

now i will listen to the rest.  but, please do not worry about my comments.  they are made rather haphazardly and without forthought of the 'piano mafia.'  but, thankfully, i live here in usa and you live across the ocean.

[pianistimo]

ravel's pavane for a dead infant?  (hoping that's the title)  you really 'feel' the piece.  the gravity.  and, yet the hope.  sometimes the switch from piano to ff seems too harsh.  perhaps an ff would sound better as an f.  the reason i say this is because you are excellent at playing pp.  you make the audience listen.  therefore, you don't have to try very hard to make us feel the 'imperative' sections.  sometimes when i analyze your playing - i feel that i am sort of listening to jazz.  you definately have the 'feeling' down.  now i would start eliminating little things that draw attention to themselves and not to the 'whole' of the piece.  extraneous noises that come from anything too loud or too sudden or too harsh.  but, again, who am i to say anything to you?  besides, sometimes it's a matter of how one views an interpretation.  i see ravel as semi-minimalistic (not in terms of pedal) but of a sort of 'looking down from above.'  as one were in a dream.  and, not a literal reality.

[pianistimo]

liszt funeralles.  wow.  you are intense.  but, what are you doing to that lowest bass note?  you will make it go flat before the end of the piece!  (actually i think it was flat when you started.)  the reason i say that is that perhaps i am wrong about having a piano slightly flatted in the bass because i hear the flatness.  ok.  can i hear this again with the treble exactly the same tune - but the bass up a slight notch in the lowest registers.  the very low note bothers me tremendously.  it is because it is one of the 'important' notes of the piece.  there are a few other notes in the treble that are out of tune. 

you have a lot of passion but, you express it with too much forte, imo.  i think you could express it more in speed - even in the slower dramatic sections.  wow!  the ending is really something!  maybe just a bit of harshness of sound - maybe closer to the keyboard? 

[pianistimo]

the bach/siloti.  wow.  do you play organ as well?  i do like your ability to suddenly shift in this a lot!

[pianistimo]

that chopin scherzo proves you can play on any piano and make it sound good.  who are we to analyze your playing?  just play away and forget we said anything!  have a very good day and week and year! 

[hiline]

You made everything out of an upright. That's formidable.