Satan vs. God - the battle to end all battles.

[opus10no2]

(refer to the audition room to know what the **** this topic is about)

Ok then, for the upcoming duel between me and pianistimo, I will represent Satan, in the red corner, and pianistimo will represent God, in the white corner.

Now let us discuss the repertoire and conditions of our battle.

[chromatickler]

hahahahah naturally i have my money on SATAN but i'm also randomly reminded of the outcome of the 'satan vs jesus 'south park episode, true

[ramseytheii]

Too bad Schumann never wrote a "So langsam wie möglich" movement.

Walter Ramsey

[ahinton]

(refer to the audition room to know what the **** this topic is about)

Ok then, for the upcoming duel between me and pianistimo, I will represent Satan, in the red corner, and pianistimo will represent God, in the white corner.

Now let us discuss the repertoire and conditions of our battle.

Why not just discuss the repertoire? The piano is mightier than the sword. Were you nevertheless determined to proceed and "pianistimo" to bother to agree to participate with you in this "battle", we should all remember who initiated the idea in the first place - and, in any case, who would be the referee? Nils?

I think I'd almost sooner have another "hardest piece" thread...

Best,

Alistair

[opus10no2]

Alistair, where exactly would you like my 'hardest piece'?

[counterpoint]

(refer to the audition room to know what the **** this topic is about)

Ok then, for the upcoming duel between me and pianistimo, I will represent Satan, in the red corner, and pianistimo will represent God, in the white corner.

Now let us discuss the repertoire and conditions of our battle.

I'm looking very fearful on the course of this upcoming event   

It should be an easy thing for SATAN to win the battle.
But does that mean, that afterwards we are forced to hear only
music played by SATAN - and GOD will never play his/her nice music again  

I don't want these times to come 

[ahinton]

Alistair, where exactly would you like my 'hardest piece'?

If that rather puerile question really has to be answered at all, then the response would have to be either "I couldn't care less", "as far away as possible" or maybe both...

Best,

Alistair

[imbetter]

haha satan will crush

 

[pianistimo]

that was digitally enhanced.  i can do that too. 

lighten up, opus10no2.  you play too heavy and fast.  you're the one that's going to get carpel tunnels aftera ll this.  ok.  say you win - and then the day after - you're going around moaning - 'my arm'  'my wrist.'  'ahaghhhh.'

whereas - i vill start molto slowoo.  and gradually work up incrementally until friday - when you see disaster looming on the horizon.   speed of light is what you will get.

[opus10no2]

I can stand the heat in my own kitchen.

That was NOT digitally enhanced, you CANNOT do that too.

Do NOT mess with SATAN.

[danny elfboy]

I hope you won't provide recordings
We want videos
There's no other way to judge ... you must see not just listen
And also we don't want cheating 

[danny elfboy]

that was digitally enhanced.  i can do that too. 

lighten up, opus10no2.  you play too heavy and fast.  you're the one that's going to get carpel tunnels aftera ll this.  ok.  say you win - and then the day after - you're going around moaning - 'my arm'  'my wrist.'  'ahaghhhh.'

Lol
He reminds me of a bodybuilder who has mistaken the concert hall for a gym 
Ironically he's probably skinny actually (like a swedish 12 years old boy?)

[pianistimo]

ok.  where's opus10no2's studio.  i can't video myself here.  friday - i vill come and demolish the piano with featherstrokes. 

here is my repertoire - which unfortunately has to be recorded on my casio as i have no other way of recording.  it can, however be checked by nils to be recorded at the setting which is normal. 

i will play:

chopin etude op 10 #4
brahms paganini variations (until i croak)
beethoven's waldstein
hmm.  another fast piece.  will look around.  maybe a prelude.  say the 21st in Bb major.  that's vivace

[danny elfboy]

I have a request 

Rachmaninov's Prelude Op.23 n. 2 in B flat major

[pianistimo]

ok.  i just printed it out.  mind you - i've never seen it or played it before.  here's my left hand so far:

[ahinton]

ok.  i just printed it out.  mind you - i've never seen it or played it before.  here's my left hand so far:

If you've printed out your left hand here, I for one certainly cannot see it - so that means that your left hand is just like the rest of you in that I have never yet set eyes thereon.

(P.S. - I've never yet seen God, either, but that may be a different matter)...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

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[ahinton]

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I'm not seeking to cramp your style, but cannot refrain from asking why it is that you continue to insist upon posting such convoluted and lengthy responses as this one, ma chère?

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

at first i got mad at nils because i thought he erased it.  then, i realized (in my own demented 45 year old mind) that i never posted it here.  i posted it in the audition room. 

[timothy42b]

Now let us discuss the repertoire and conditions of our battle.

This has SO been done.

"Devil went down to Georgia," anyone?

[pianowelsh]

Repertoire is easy!!  Bach prelude and fugue in c# (the cross fugue) and Messiaens the kiss of the Christ child from the vingt regard sur le enfant jesus.
Pianistimo will whoop you so bad!

[ahinton]

Repertoire is easy!!  Bach prelude and fugue in c# (the cross fugue) and Messiaens the kiss of the Christ child from the vingt regard sur le enfant jesus.
Pianistimo will whoop you so bad!

Or why not conflate them, Godowsky-style; the kiss-cross fugue, or something? But, better still, what about a piano transcrioption of Haydn's Seven Last Words? Now that'd really be something worth recommending here, although I fear that such recommendation would nevertheless - er - fall on stony ground, since the likelhood that anyone will ever write the seven last words on these kinds of subject in this forum is about as great as that of Thal and I happily participating as tambourinists in a Pentecostal happy-clappy service...

Best,

Alistair

[pianowelsh]

Whyever not Alistair. I though that may have been a bit ott!!?! and my thought was that the fugue would test out their technical ability and control and the messian would show up their control of sonority.. that was my reasoning?? as I said I suspect susan would win on these terms but It may in the process make op10/2 realise that piano playing is more than speed and volume!

[pianistimo]

oh boy.  i can't learn all this in one week, pianowelsh.  help!  i'm hopefully not the only one competing in this 'speed' contest.  pianowelsh - i nominate you for the two pieces you have chosen.  we'll whoop him together.  although - i'm afraid your age won't show him what i wanted to show him. 

alistair, why not ! as pianowelsh said - write us a quick transciption.  you don't have to play it. we do.  and the proof of the proverbial pudding would be that noone had ever seen it before.  although, i must say - i'd have played the rach much faster if i'd seen it before. 

well, i'm ready to play my pieces - but hopefully - the virus that attached itself to my computer this morning (i'm using my daughter's to write this message) will be eliminated tonight by my husbands 'blaster' techniques.  i'm not sure what he does - but he gets rid of them in 20 minutes or so. 

[pianowolfi]

I have a request 

Rachmaninov's Prelude Op.23 n. 2 in B flat major

Sorry for Hijacking. Here it is . A lot of reverb unfortunately . But anyway, I think I will re-record it in the near future. After two years I am not satisfied with everything in this interpretation of course

https://media.putfile.com/Rach-prelude-op23-2

[ahinton]

alistair, why not ! as pianowelsh said - write us a quick transciption.  you don't have to play it. we do.  and the proof of the proverbial pudding would be that noone had ever seen it before.

Dear Susan, dear "pianowelsh", dear anyone else interested,

That was a joke - as surely you both noticed?! If either of you or anyone else really wants to see a piano transcription of mine, then please visit the address that I quoted to "pianowelsh", follow the link to scores and you'll find reference to a few - one of Schumann, two of Rakhmaninov and an operatic fantasia après la manière de Liszt on themes from Cabaret by John Kander - and how they may be obtained...

Isn't is just amazing how neatly the notion of battles between Satan and God can be reduced to discussions of individual composers' piano transcriptions on this wonderful forum!...

Best,

Alistair

[ramseytheii]

Isn't is just amazing how neatly the notion of battles between Satan and God can be reduced to discussions of individual composers' piano transcriptions on this wonderful forum!...

Best,

Alistair

Reduced....?

Walter Ramsey

[ahinton]

Reduced....?

Walter Ramsey

Yes - though hopefully not quite like that manner of reduction that I obliquely advocated to Thal on another thread a moment or three ago...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Pianistimo will whoop you so bad!

What kind of experience might that be? (or shouldn't I ask?...)...

Best,

Alistair