Mono Duo

[furtwaengler]

After hearing Angela Hewitt play Mozart's 20th, me and my friend Adam went back to the uni where he studies. He wanted to play through Mozart's 21st with me covering the orchestra part, and this involved a hassle of moving one upright out of one practice room and into another which had another upright waiting. The two instruments barely fit in the tiny room, and after all that he remembered he had not remembered to get the music from his room. With him gone for a couple minutes, and me sitting in that little room with one bench and two pianos, I thought, "Why not?" flipped on the voice recorder that's always in my pocket, and went to town improvising on two pianos at the same time. The main mode of differentiation is the resonance from the one pedaled and the other not - not that this really comes through on from the voice recorder.

This is the first improvisation I've recorded since last September. I must say, though I've not emphasized it so much, I am now considering the possibility of a Keith Jarrett type solo recital, or at least a half a recital with the other half being compositions of composers I deem worthy to play. I've only once, back in 2004, programmed improvisation into a full recital, and that was only 5 minutes, and never really hit the spot. I'm am not so in the groove at the moment...but still this gives me some ideas. What do you think? I like the risk of the moment and creating something out of nothing.

[pianowolfi]

What a fun event! In the beginning I noticed a significant difference between the pedalled and the unpedalled piano, later on they seemed to merge together.

I'd say go for that recital!

Of course there are many different kinds of approaches, you can do a semi-planned recital, or you can go out there like a blank sheet of paper and just live in the moment (which takes a lot of courage I imagine!!  ) Or you can have a precise choreography, or even sheet music with your main themes, and much more. I don't know how Jarrett uses to do it.

[lostinidlewonder]

Such a tense sounding improv. I found it too fast so I needed to slow it down, I cleaned it and here is how I listen to it. I could follow your phrases easier this way and enjoyed it more then.  You friend sounded scared at the end, he was prepared for some Mozart and he arrived to something demonic lol

[furtwaengler]

Here is one of about four threads I've abandoned due to time.

Such a tense sounding improv. I found it too fast so I needed to slow it down, I cleaned it and here is how I listen to it. I could follow your phrases easier this way and enjoyed it more then.  You friend sounded scared at the end, he was prepared for some Mozart and he arrived to something demonic lol

Thanks for cleaning it up. It's really kind of funny that you slowed it down!

[chopinatic]

I felt like i was in an 80s horror! haha! demonic indeed! Like a freddy cruger film! Do the Recital!!