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Topic: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand  (Read 3136 times)

Offline fnork

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Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
on: July 04, 2012, 02:52:14 AM
Played this for a competition today - as you´ll notice, the pianist playing the orchestra part skips a few places. The sound isn´t that great, sorry about that.

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 03:33:08 AM
Why are you such a good pianist?  Everything you post is of something crazy difficult.

I'm so jealous lol.   :-[
Live large, die large.  Leave a giant coffin.

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 05:00:28 AM
Might be worth mentioning I first started looking at this piece maybe five years ago. I´ve never worked on it for longer periods of time, but a month of preparing seemed enough to at least get most things right this time.

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 12:21:01 PM
wow! thanks for sharing! nothing to say other than

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 11:11:38 PM
haha, not sure about that but thanks. feedback anyone? listening back I felt that the march should´ve been slower, it felt somewhat rushed. And I noticed I was actually pushing the tempo in a couple of almost unplayable passages that I had been trying to get up to tempo without much luck for a long time :P

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 05:40:15 AM
heh, any feedback anyone? 52 listens and hardly any comments...

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 07:41:07 AM
+1

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #8 on: August 09, 2012, 09:46:23 PM
i listened, i enjoyed, i can tell you where the a's are on the keyboard therefore - my opinion has no relevance, insight, or value. - but this applies to most of my posts anyway

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Re: Ravel - Concerto for the left hand
Reply #9 on: August 25, 2012, 08:24:26 PM
hehe, well then, thanks for listening in any case.
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