page turns in recording and videotaping?

[nikolasideris]

I might as well ask here, though I'm much more active in the other piano forum... 

I'm planning on recording AND videotaping 7 short works for 4 hands piano, with a lovely female pianist. We get along fine, and rehearsals are going great.

But the score is 40 pages, it's rather complicated and none of us has the time to memorize the works.

So:

1. How will it look in the video? too bad to have the score (published and all, but still) in front of us?

2. How to do the page turns? The score is in landscape format, so I don't think that the piano stand can fit 4 landscape pages, especially since they are larger than A4. Not to mention that photocopies would look ugly as hell...

Any ideas, please?

[werq34ac]

I would get a friend to avoid looking unprofessional but that's just me..

I don't see much wrong with performing with the score in ensembles, the pros do it so why not you?

[nikolasideris]

Thanks...

After watching quite a few youtube vids, I did decided that having a page turner is not such a turn off after all!

[iansinclair]

Do it all the time in organ playing.  It helps to practice with your page turner, though...

[Bob]

If it's in a binder or on some kind of backing that looks better than individual photocopies.

[49410enrique]

if you have a decent size screen you can convert the score to a compatibel file and use something like this. i went to a great concert recently and the pianist did not have a page turner, no problem she handled it with her foot. it was freakin awesome.

https://airturn.com/

similar products are out there too...

[nikolasideris]

iansinclair: true... I'm meeting with the other pianist today (in a few hours, since it's 05:55 right now in Greece and I just woke up! ) and I'll discus with her the various options and people we can use.

Bob: It will be a normally sized and bound published score. Think of a Henle score, for example...

enrique: Thanks. Problem is that neither of us has a tablet, ipad (personally don't fancy anything with an "i" in front, but that's just me ). Plus I get a feeling that for a score for 4 hands, where one needs to view BOTH pages at the same time, any tablet or even single computer screen will be insufficient.

I was, however, talking with a couple of reviewers, who wanted to give it a try, so why not!?

Thank you all. You've been very helpful!