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imbetter

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Strauss Burleske

on: December 11, 2011, 05:07:56 PM

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Re: Strauss Burleske

Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 05:34:14 PM

Impressive! Is this your performance, imbetter, or a colleague's?

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Re: Strauss Burleske

Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 06:07:34 PM

thank you! it's myself accompanied by my piano teacher

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Reply #3 on: December 11, 2011, 06:45:42 PM

wonderful playing. I'm amazed at the ease with which you tackle this "ungrateful" piece. You must have a hand span of a 12th at least. I hope you get to play it with an orchestra. It's a whole different piece of cake!

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Reply #4 on: December 11, 2011, 08:08:52 PM

wow! so great i should say it backwards too, WOW! you sound incredible, this piece is way beyond me right now so i can only give you an 'audience' response, really enjoyable, you look 'at ease' and play it fluidly, balnce is great throughout! sweet to see a bosie on stage (nothing against ss but those r sweet pianos)!

thanks for sharing look forward to seeing more. bravo!

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Reply #5 on: December 11, 2011, 08:38:05 PM

Congratulations! Yes! You are so much better (

) than when I met you first here!

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Reply #6 on: December 12, 2011, 12:25:40 AM

Excellent playing! Congratulations.

David

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Reply #7 on: December 12, 2011, 02:46:10 AM

Perhaps one of the best 2 hands/piano duets I've seen in my life. Impressive.

JL

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Reply #8 on: December 12, 2011, 06:53:33 PM

Definitely impressive! I can't say I liked the piece all that much though.

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Reply #9 on: December 12, 2011, 11:02:16 PM

You're right. That's why I called it "ungrateful"! Argerich used to play it. but even she couldn't make all of it interesting.

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Reply #10 on: December 13, 2011, 07:31:08 AM

Really Starstruck5, Birba? I've always adored this piece! Must be just me...

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Reply #11 on: December 13, 2011, 04:29:33 PM

Hi, imbetter

I definitely give you and the professor high marks for a wonderful performance. I do like Ricard Strauss' orchestral works and his "Last Songs" for soprano and orchestra. But I can't seem to warm up to this duo-piano piece. Maybe it's because Strauss' writing for the piano was not as adept as his more prominent works for orchestra? But again, I believe you served this composer very well here.

David

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Reply #12 on: December 13, 2011, 04:46:33 PM

It definitely does NOT work as a two-piano piece. It needs the orchestra - in fact the piano is an integral part of the orchestral writing here. To me, the four last songs and elektra are the apex of artistic and musical expression!
But, again, it was a first-class performance of the burleske.

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Reply #13 on: December 13, 2011, 10:41:07 PM

Hi birba,

Not to get too far off topic, but I put Strauss' "Last Four Songs" in the same category as Berg's "Seven Early Songs", and Mahler's "Rukert-Lieder"--all absolutely extraordinary music!

David

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Reply #14 on: December 15, 2011, 01:07:08 AM

thank you all for the comments! I have to agree that playing this piece on two pianos definitely does not do it justice

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