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Topic: [Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)  (Read 2248 times)

Offline wiwi1019

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[Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)
on: March 04, 2010, 07:47:29 PM
This is me and me playing Edvard Grieg's arrangement of the famous Mozart sonata.
It took me a lot of time to record this one, hope you'll like it.

On YouTube:
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Re: [Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)
Reply #1 on: March 04, 2010, 10:48:44 PM
I must say - I do enjoy your videos Wiwi...

Keep them up - it's good to see people recording the 2-part pieces and synching them together - takes a lot of skill on your part, but you're doing them well.

Well done.

PS - Interesting question - was that an octave glissando I saw you doing in the 3rd Movement Cadenza??? It looked like it, because if it wasn't, you wouldn't have used your thumb for it (going up)...

It looked that way, although I didn't think RH Octave glissandos going up existed... I thought they were always coming down.
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Re: [Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)
Reply #2 on: March 05, 2010, 03:45:47 AM
Quote from: perfect_pitch on March 04, 2010, 10:48:44 PM
I must say - I do enjoy your videos Wiwi...

Keep them up - it's good to see people recording the 2-part pieces and synching them together - takes a lot of skill on your part, but you're doing them well.

Well done.

PS - Interesting question - was that an octave glissando I saw you doing in the 3rd Movement Cadenza??? It looked like it, because if it wasn't, you wouldn't have used your thumb for it (going up)...

It looked that way, although I didn't think RH Octave glissandos going up existed... I thought they were always coming down.

Thanks for watching, I'm happy that you enjoyed it.

Yes, it IS an octave glissando in the 3rd movement. Grieg didn't write it, I added that in because I think the original cadenza it a little bit weak.

But they do exist in other pieces, examples that I can think of right now are Weber's Concertstuck, Op. 79 and Tausig's transcription of Weber's Invitation to Dance, both pieces has RH octave glissandos going up.
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Re: [Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)
Reply #3 on: March 05, 2010, 12:12:28 PM
sh*t - that's gotta hurt the pinkie finger... surely???

I've never encountered them going up in the RH... I've encountered plenty going down (in my Brahms and Stravinsky pieces)... but damn...

Interesting...
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Re: [Video] Mozart-Grieg: Sonata in C Major, K545, All Mvts. (2 Pianos)
Reply #4 on: March 05, 2010, 01:26:23 PM
Quote from: perfect_pitch on March 05, 2010, 12:12:28 PM
sh*t - that's gotta hurt the pinkie finger... surely???
At first it hurts, but after practising a few days the skin will become thicker, then you'll be OK.
Don't do it too many times in one day, though.
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