Brahms Paganini Variations Book 1 No 14 updated for Perfect Pitch

[slow_concert_pianist]

The final variation of book one is key to this work PP.

Note Brahms scores it "allegro ma non troppo". Doesn't that tempo warning appear at the final movt of Beethoven's Appassionata with the same presto finale. Wow....deja vu or what???!!!!

Spookily the end of variation 14 is remeniscent of the Appassionata. But IT NEEDS TO EMBUE PAGANINNI and, sadly, your recording pays no such homage. I can't work whether you can't hear the music or you are too timid to take risks to allow the music to progress forth. Either way your performance is both twee and shakey, whereas mine is just shakey.

It horrendous score and you have my immediate respect for even taking it on. Here is an updates recording to give you ideas for your fellowship exam. It is not an attempt to compete with you. I know not and care less about criticism. Listen & hopefully some of the objectivity will brush off. (the pause at the trills is due to a sheet music change)

https://www.box.net/shared/4aq5bbbxkj

For the forum morons/hecklers....this is my last recording for comparison (note the trills are better)

https://www.box.net/shared/aqmoond8po

[perfect_pitch]

OKAY... You know what... Thalbergmad was right. You're either a narcissistic, condescending GIT... or you're a total idiot.

I retract my last forum post about you - you are an idiot. You TRULY ARE! Here's why:

I'll admit that my recording of Brahms wasn't brilliant, in fact it wasn't even great... but I know for a bloody FACT that mine was brilliant... when compared to yours.

The final variation of book one is key to this work PP.

Note Brahms scores it "allegro ma non troppo".

Yes - I have glasses, I can read - Thank you.

Here is an updates recording to give you ideas for your fellowship exam.

what... ideas to help me fail the bloody thing???

Either way your performance is both twee and shakey, whereas mine is just shakey.

HAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA.... HAAA HAA HAAA....

[falls of his computer chair, rolling like a hysterical nutter from laughing to hard...]

No - My recording was shaky... You played it like a musically dyslexic student with Parkinsons disease. 

(I do apologise to anyone with Parkinsons disease... I seriously do)

It is not an attempt to compete with you.

Damn right... cause I'd win if we did.

Slow - I'm going to finally take the advice of Furtwaengler and ignore you completely. I thought maybe you were someone with some molecule of reality residing in that mushy brain of yours, but you are a complete and utter bloody joke. I pray that in time (preferably in the incredibly near future) you end up getting banned from these forums for spamming the crap out them with your lousy recordings and your pretentious, self-obsessed manner.

If you get a kick out of doing these and that you love to watch us lament over your sh!tty recordings, then I submit that I was duped from your idiotic posts...

HOWEVER... if you seriously think you're a serious pianist... then I hate to tell you, but you will never, EVER attain the level of perfection that makes all serious pianists what they are.

I know that I will spend the next 60 years continuing to learn and refine my skills, since my love of music will never, ever die - while all you'll do is to continue taking brilliant pieces of music...

and turn them into audible diarrhoea.

[liordavid]

To all you classical music snobs who keep insulting Slow: All you are doing is making him lose hope and that is the worst thing for any artist. He would have been a much better pianist without you ranting about him. 

[birba]

There IS no hope.  And he's the one who's the snob!
I think it's hysterical.  It's the Florence Jenkins of the keyboard.

[birba]

p.s For someone to judge perfect_pitch's playing the WAY he did, 3 months before a very important exam, is not a lesson in constructive criticism.

[stevebob]

To all you classical music snobs who keep insulting Slow: All you are doing is making him lose hope and that is the worst thing for any artist. He would have been a much better pianist without you ranting about him. 

This is hilarious in numerous ways, including, obviously, the allegation of snobbery.  But I find the notion that other people are now responsible for no_concert_pianist's lack of skill especially endearing.

As Boileau said:  "A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him."

[tds]

There IS no hope.  And he's the one who's the snob!

there IS no hope. slow's rendition of this var sounds similar to the way i sounded on the piano today. no kidding - he may have sounded slightly better actually. yes, and i give concerts.

perhaps, the slight difference between slow and me, or maybe some of you, too, is that i do not poop on dining tables (sufficient analogy?), nor do i tend to brag about myself excessively. but surely, there is hope - hope for slow to one day become a better player.

slow, you sounded so horrible! (and i have sounded worse)

[thalbergmad]

To all you classical music snobs who keep insulting Slow: All you are doing is making him lose hope and that is the worst thing for any artist. He would have been a much better pianist without you ranting about him. 

Using the word artist in the same paragraph as our dear "slow" is laughable.

If he wants to be an artist, he should buy a new piano, go back to approx grade 7 level and pay for someone to shoot his teacher.

He is either a sandwich short of a picnic or a spammer. There is no grey area.

If he is sitting at home laughing at the responses to his recrodings, I laugh with him.

Thal

[tds]

that's why i love this forum quite a bit and have managed to keep coming back even after long absences. the characters here are just top notch - most varied and vivid of all drama settings. the whole thing is a paradox, methinks.