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Offline lateromantic

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VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
on: August 01, 2015, 11:59:18 PM
About two years ago I posted a video recording of the Prelude No. 2 from my Nine Preludes for Piano Solo, which I composed in 1988.  Within the last year, my partner and I have retired and moved to Arizona, where I hope to make a number of additional recordings over the next few years.  It took us a few months to set up the new recording environment, but earlier this week I was finally able to record my Prelude No. 1 in D-Sharp Minor (from the same set as the earlier prelude I posted), which I think some of the Romantically-inclined pianists here may enjoy.



For those who prefer to follow the score, I also created this "score video" with the same soundtrack:

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #1 on: August 02, 2015, 03:19:43 PM
This is very beautiful music. Congratulations on your wonderful achievement!

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #2 on: August 03, 2015, 03:40:33 PM
Thank you very much!  I still have a lot of unrecorded music, including piano solo as well as various other combinations (if I can find the co-performers), so I expect to be putting out many more of these.  :)

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #3 on: August 05, 2015, 02:51:38 AM
Very profound and enjoyable! I greatly enjoyed the jazz idioms and chord structures towards the beginning, but also has that late romantic "Russian feel".

Well done!

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #4 on: August 05, 2015, 09:22:04 PM
I greatly enjoyed the jazz idioms and chord structures towards the beginning, but also has that late romantic "Russian feel".
My dissertation was on Rachmaninoff, but when I wrote that prelude I think I was probably also somewhat under the influence of the well-known Scriabin etude in the same key.

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #5 on: August 06, 2015, 05:26:36 PM
I was going to say it reminded me of Scriabin!  It's beautiful.  I know it's YOUR music, but I couldn't help feeling it much faster.  Like in 2.  half note=90.  Really passionato, like you wrote.  And then the reprise a little slower.  It's silly of me telling you how I feel it!  But I do!  I'd love to learn it.

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Re: VIDEO: My Prelude No. 1
Reply #6 on: August 07, 2015, 03:54:07 PM
I was going to say it reminded me of Scriabin!  It's beautiful.  I know it's YOUR music, but I couldn't help feeling it much faster.  Like in 2.  half note=90.  Really passionato, like you wrote.  And then the reprise a little slower.  It's silly of me telling you how I feel it!  But I do!  I'd love to learn it.
No, that's not silly at all.  A piece like this leaves a lot of room for the performer's interpretation, and I think it would be interesting to hear such a really quick, high-energy performance.  Conceivably, I might like it better than my own recorded version.

If you'd like the score, let me know and I can email you a PDF.
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