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Topic: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39  (Read 2300 times)

Offline fbt

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Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
on: January 24, 2012, 02:15:26 PM

     No technical show piece but a therapeutic oasis in this fast moving,crazy world
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 04:48:01 PM
Not bad at all - but I think you need to focus less on individual notes and more in shaping the phrases - feel where they begin and end as if you were singing and not playing -it is death to this beautiful waltz if the listener hears single impulses.
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 09:33:30 AM
Wonderful pianism, fbt.
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 01:55:38 PM
Thank you both for listening and taking the time to reply.I appreciate the criticism and the praise.
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 04:34:08 PM
Quote from: fbt on January 26, 2012, 01:55:38 PM
Thank you both for listening and taking the time to reply.I appreciate the criticism and the praise.

The other comment, contrasted so much to my own - I listened again a few times - Hmmm -I have to say I was wrong  -it sounded so different to me on seconds and thirds - wierd -anyway -hope you accept my apology.
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #5 on: January 26, 2012, 06:50:55 PM
no apology needed. I think my playing is somewhere between the two comments
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #6 on: January 26, 2012, 09:09:05 PM
A lovely convincing performance of this "warhorse".  I liked it very much.
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Re: Brahms- Waltz in Ab Op.39
Reply #7 on: January 27, 2012, 12:21:05 AM
Thank you birba. your opinions mean a lot to me as are the others who have responded
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