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Offline ronde_des_sylphes

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Random improv on Verdi Miserere
on: May 31, 2007, 05:53:51 PM
I'm actually a compulsive improviser, so much so that it frequently disrupts allegedly "organised" practice. This time, I was doing a rehearsal session, taped it all, and had a little warmup for what I was really supposed to be doing  :)



I've got to admit the improv has a certain debt to the Verdi-Liszt Il Trovatore, but I've played that paraphrase so many times it seems it's almost in my bloodstream. Anyway, hopefully it's entertaining enough.

All comments welcome, of course.


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Offline donjuan

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Re: Random improv on Verdi Miserere
Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 06:15:39 PM
cool, dude.  Wish I could improvise like that.. I can tell you really have the right feeling for the whole Liszt piano transcription thing

keep it up ;)

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Re: Random improv on Verdi Miserere
Reply #2 on: May 31, 2007, 07:53:28 PM
The the Liszt Il Trovatore any good?
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: Random improv on Verdi Miserere
Reply #3 on: May 31, 2007, 08:02:25 PM
Yeah, quite decent I think. The second half is possibly a bit over the top, but he does the first very tastefully.
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Offline Derek

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Re: Random improv on Verdi Miserere
Reply #4 on: June 01, 2007, 12:10:18 AM
Thanks for posting! I'll add your name and your improv to the
improvisations list.

I liked it a lot. I haven't heard the pieces upon which you
based your improv. But my favorite sections were where there
was a melody sort of "sandwiched" within sweeping, virtuosic
arpeggios.

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Re: Random improv on Verdi Miserere
Reply #5 on: June 01, 2007, 12:27:12 AM
I'll add your name and your improv to the
improvisations list.

I liked it a lot.

Thanks!

But my favorite sections were where there
was a melody sort of "sandwiched" within sweeping, virtuosic
arpeggios.

Ah, the so-called three-handed effect section. I play a lot of romantic-era transcriptions and as they often contain the effect, it's become rather second nature to me - hence it being the sort of thing that comes out in an improv.
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