Rustle of Spring - Sinding

[chuck75]

From a Webcor tape recording of a high school performance in the early 1950s.

[candlelightpiano]

Was it you playing it back then?  I've always loved this piece and hope to play it someday.  I enjoyed this recording very much.  The LH melody seemed to lag behind the general tempo of the piece but it was still a very good performance. 

[chuck75]

Yes, I played it then. Just after the end of World war II, my piano teacher had me learn Rustle of Spring because, in her words, "it is a showy piece, but not too difficult to play or memorize". A couple of years later (when I was 12) she had me play it as a featured work in her mixed students recital. Then a few years later, I played it in high school where another teacher made the 3" reel tape recording. (Sorry for the boring bit of personal history.)
Thanks for the comments.

[lostinidlewonder]

Sounds too even for human fingers.

[perfect_pitch]

Sounds too even for human fingers.

Yep... Sounds too robotic to me to be a human. I'd be willing to bet this was probably an old pianola playing. There is no way a human played this. Each of the notes in the long runs has the EXACT same dynamic sound with no variation at all, and the timing of each crotchet beat is almost precisely split into quintuplets, septuplets, demisemiquavers... Also - the rallentandos seem a little artificial.

No offense chuck... but if this ain't you playing, you'd have more respect coming clean about it now, than trying to play us all for chumps.

[chuck75]

The above incredulous responses should not have manipulated me to defend myself. In my twilight years, it serves me no purpose to deceive anyone, as there would be nothing to be gained.
Incidentally, I have refrained from commenting concerning some spurious remarks from above posters made in other threads and fora.
I do apologize for sharing my music -- it was not my intention to offend anyone nor feed their voracity. I'll certainly not share any file here again.
Thanks.

[perfect_pitch]

Considering that I trust my ears over anything else... Don't dare label my response as INCREDULOUS...

Considering that I can very clearly tell the difference between a synthesized or edited recording as opposed to a real recording... and HAVE in these forums for the last couple of years.

Of course there may not be anything to be gained from posting a synthesized recording... but BELIEVE ME, people have done it before. Why did they do it? They had nothing to gain... but they did it anyway.

So if you aren't willing to defend your recording, then to me that suggests that it wasn't you playing but to try and save face - you're trying to label us as the arseholes here???

GIVE ME A BREAK!!! If they sound similar to the file you posted here earlier - then please don't share your files again.

[chuck75]

I contacted my nephew who made the MP3 file from the original tape, and told him of the disconfirmation it caused here. He offered to copy the tape to a cassette for me to "give to the doubting Thomas."
So, perfect_pitch, if you would PM me an address where to send the cassette, I will mail it to you.

[perfect_pitch]

But if it was a pianola playing (which I am very sure off), then giving me a tape of it doesn't prove a damn thing.

And even it it really was you playing (which I doubt), then your playing is rigid and stiff, and has absolutely no music at all.

If you can't deal with other peoples opinions... I don't know why you're using the internet then...

 

[chuck75]

perfect_pitch, certainly I can deal with other opinions. However, it was not "pianola"--your surety is totally wrong--and thanks [sarcastically] for the remarks about my playing and music--I'll not go down to your level and comment about your music or performance.
But in your case (with your apparent atychiphobia) where you refuse to accept or entertain any rebuttal to your opinion, I do thank you for saving me the costs to ship said cassette to "down under".
So that closes this matter. Adieu.

[perfect_pitch]

Hey Chuck... Look - if I'm wrong, I'm wrong... but I know that it's safer to trust my ears over a random stranger on the internet.

No offence however, I can't be the only one who thought that it wasn't a human playing (apart from lostinidlewonder). In 39 downloads, someone must have thought the same thing.

And if you still actually play, then you need to loosen up in your playing. That Sinding was the most metrically boring thing I've ever heard. It's got to move free, not metrically like a clock.