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Offline communist

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favorite minitature
on: September 24, 2008, 11:18:45 PM
whats yours?
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Re: favorite minitature
Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 03:02:55 PM
What's yours! :P
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Re: favorite minitature
Reply #2 on: September 27, 2008, 12:04:48 AM
Rachmaninoff op.23 no.3 Mendelssohn op.19 no.3 Rachmaninoff op.33 no. 4 and Scriabin op.11 no. 16
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Re: favorite minitature
Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 03:20:44 PM
Very good taste.

MacDowell is a bit more romantically direct.  Once, he was about to throw one in the fireplace and his wife rescued it.  I think it was 'to a Wild Rose.'  Overplayed, i know - but it's got charm.

How about Leroy Anderson?  I think he was fairly genius, myself - but it's probably more jazz than classical.  You know - the syncopated clock and all.

Didn't Tchaikovsky write a bunch of miniatures - i think i printed some off pianostreet a while back.  And, Rimsky-Korsakov - did he?  To me, the fantabulous miniature in larger framework would be Pictures at An Exhibition by Mussorgsky.  That is the greatest of all time!

Right now, am using Saint-saen's Carnaval of the Animals for one student and they are very effective to use with younger children because they are short and sweet.

'Caprise Viennois' - by Fritz Kreisler.  Suppose that many others are for violin and cello, too.  But, they can always be rearranged for piano.  Didn't Offenbach write some good stuff?

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Re: favorite minitature
Reply #4 on: October 04, 2008, 04:18:12 PM
Schuman: Kinderszenen and carnaval
Purcell: Fantasias
Prokofiev: vision fugitive
"Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit, Genius is hitting a target no one else can see"

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