Dohnanyi Capriccio op.28 f-minor

[Steffen Fahl]

This is a so beautiful brilliant piece, still missing in your collection.
I programmed it with samples and hope I have met the virtuos spirit of performance.
best
fahl5
(edit: I just added another tiny and funny study of the same composer his Study op28,8)

[birba]

O M G!  Wait, I just had a brilliant idea.  I'm going to put this recording inside the piano and perform it on a silent keyboard.  I'll bring the house down!  Don't really care for it though.

[Steffen Fahl]

Oh! this realisation must have been quite shocking for you.
For me at least it was much fun to programm.
best
fahl5

[pianisten1989]

Do you have any idea how to perform these live? I'm impressed, in a way, but how are you going to spread it? I don't think that many ppl will be interested in "look what I did, with my computer", unless you find a way to perform it.

[tds]

i mostly enjoyed it thanks for sharing, fahl5. be careful tho, you don't wanna make it sound too robotic, in some parts. i know it's robot, but lets hear YOU play via robot.
oh and also, can you possibly work on colour and variety of "touch"? make it human please, as i believe it is your ultimate challenge in working with this samples. can be a beautiful life long task, i think.

[Steffen Fahl]

Hi pianisten1989,
You are right, I have no Idea nor the intention to perform this musi otherwise than it is produced. You already heard what I've done, if you enjoyed it  - great! For me that is pretty much, meanwhile I never would think unrespectful about the wonder of a good performance. This is just a way to work a bit more like a composer with pianointerpretation and I like it. There are people nowadays who "perform" this piece in front of a video-cam and put their performance to youtube. Does that really give that much more of the miracle of this music?

Hi tds,
Again thank you very much for your kind and honestly critical reaction. I confess I am quite curious to work with the new sampleset arrived just a few day ago which has much more different Singlenoterecordings for different Keyvelocities and can reproduce even the sympathetic resonance of the piano (which makes the overtones sound, when you hit a lower key).
But this recording is still made with the prior version. S o you are absolutly right about my goal and some of the reactions here show me, that my direction doesn't seem to me no more that wrong as the people here let me think in january. So be sure I will go on strive to improve my musical language just in the way you put it.
best
fahl5

[nearenough]

F5: Thanks so much for your presentation. What software do you use? How do input the score?
Horowitz performed this piece very effectively (of course!) and you can find it among various reissued CDs nowadays. Dohnanyi is quite an underrated composer albeit heavily Brahmsian -- easy to listen to as opposed to much of the awkward unmelodic chop-wood of the 12 tone serialists and other cacophany experts.

[Steffen Fahl]

F5: Thanks so much for your presentation. What software do you use? How do input the score?
Horowitz performed this piece very effectively (of course!) and you can find it among various reissued CDs nowadays. Dohnanyi is quite an underrated composer albeit heavily Brahmsian -- easy to listen to as opposed to much of the awkward unmelodic chop-wood of the 12 tone serialists and other cacophany experts.

Thank you for your kind remarks. I use Smartscore to help me to input the score. Still there are in general quite a lot mistakes to correct, so I check everything once again in Finale (both in the latest versions) before saving a raw midi file. Meanwhile it would be possible to edit mididata in Smartscore and Finale to, I preferred to do the most editing in Cubase 5 where I can listen the result with the high quality sampleset I use.
I do like Dohnanyi to since he is one of the most livly and intelligent pianistic composers of his period in my opinion and this piece an incredible composition.
best
fahl5

[zmoneybagz]

This is a so beautiful brilliant piece, still missing in your collection.
I programmed it with samples and hope I have met the virtuos spirit of performance.
best
fahl5

what a gorgeous piece of music!