Feux Follets

[shoenberg3]

Just tinkering aorund at home. Reverb added on Audition. Two broken strings..
https://download.yousendit.com/A38827B1475D6D1C

[arensky]

Excellent. It was slightly uneven at the beginning but you quickly settled into it. It sounds pretty effortless, like it's easy for you (which it may not be but it sure sounds like it  ) . No clinkers that I could hear but I'm not that familiar with this piece and it was hard to hear over the child singing along. I particularly liked your full tone, there are so many notes in this that most pianists don't ( or can't) let the tone resonate, I probably liked that aspect of this performance best. Great playing. 

[hakki]

Very good. Bravo.
What is the piano you are playing?

Regards,

[arensky]

What is the piano you are playing?

I would guess it's a Steinway...

[shoenberg3]

It is a Yamaha. I missed a few notes in the beginning because the strings were broken

[rachfan]

An excellent performance!  You captured the delicate touch interspersed with the florishes of drama.  You have a wonderful technique to be able to perform with such a virtuosic command of the instrument.  I only wish I could play like that!

[arensky]

It is a Yamaha. I missed a few notes in the beginning because the strings were broken

You make it sound like a Steinway. What model/size/year is it?

How did you break the strings? 

[pita bread]

How did you break the strings? 

Korean nuclear fury

[shoenberg3]

You make it sound like a Steinway. What model/size/year is it?

How did you break the strings? 

It is C5 (6' 8"), around 16 years old. I got it 3-4 years ago for around 14000 dollars. It is really a great piano for its price and unlike other Yamahas, it doesn't have those shrill highs and treble.

I literally broke 5 strings within last month. The technician came two weeks ago and fixed three. I broke two more last week... I am practicing the Trascendental Etudes 1-6, that is probably why.

[liszt-essence]

amazing speed, well done !

[jakev2.0]

Dude, you're a beast. 

[steve_m]

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[shoenberg3]

Awesome! Very clean and accurate. How long did it take you to learn it?


Getting a little off topic, does anyone else think there is a kind of creepy, sinister, ironic, diabolical, menacing, sardonic, disturbing, fiendish, grim, demonic (Sorry for all the adjectives, but they were necessary. This is a difficult feeling to describe. I hope I've expressed it accurately!) side to this piece, or am I the only one who this comes across to?

I practiced this intermittently; I would say 2 solid months, but I was learning other pieces too.

To your second question: yes, yes, yes and yes. It's safe to say Will-'o-wisp (Feux Follets) have most of these characteristics, especially when you consider that the lights are traditionally believed to be found in graveyards. 

[franzliszt2]

Well played I enjoyed it!