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Offline shoremusic

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Identify this piece?
on: September 14, 2015, 04:34:47 PM
Can somebody please tell me that name of the piece being played in the background at this point in this video:

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Thanks.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #1 on: September 14, 2015, 04:45:03 PM

I have no idea... but thanks for sharing that video--interesting man.  ;D

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #2 on: September 14, 2015, 05:05:27 PM
It is the Gluck/Sgambati Melody from Orfeo.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #3 on: September 14, 2015, 05:37:13 PM
It is the Gluck/Sgambati Melody from Orfeo.

Thal

well... look at you all smarty pants..lol  ;D

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #4 on: September 14, 2015, 05:37:22 PM
many thanks

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #5 on: September 14, 2015, 05:58:57 PM
well... look at you all smarty pants..lol  ;D

I am not used to giving sensible answers.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #6 on: September 14, 2015, 06:04:04 PM
     


Earl Wild owns this piece.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #7 on: September 14, 2015, 06:15:24 PM
     


Earl Wild owns this piece.

Thal
as he does everything else he ever wrote/played
EDIT SORRY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS
Variations on a Theme by Stephen Foster for Piano and Orchestra "Doo-Dah Variations"
btw does the CPS have this? I wonder if it was ever published? (note not asking/asking here for a copy just curious if you 'has'?)  8)

found the score. will order. not sure how i missed it last time. i thought I had all his published stuff.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #8 on: September 14, 2015, 06:31:18 PM
Afraid not old chap. Never heard it either.

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Reply #9 on: September 14, 2015, 06:34:32 PM
Afraid not old chap. Never heard it either.

Thal
drat/shame. oh well, something to put on the growing 'wishlist' suppose. :'(
great piano + orch piece not to be missed. i've listened to it three times in a row this afternoon alone  :D

sorry i had an old link and didn't paste properly, it was the stephen foster variants i was thinking of
https://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/79003/

thought of you when i saw the banjo variation
sorry for the error  :(

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #10 on: September 14, 2015, 06:39:08 PM
Afraid not old chap. Never heard it either.

Thal
it https://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/79003/audio/02.mp3


there's also his 'adventure for piano orchestra' if you hadn't come accross that one either

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #11 on: September 14, 2015, 06:43:03 PM
I am not used to giving sensible answers.

I'd say! I'm stunned!
You might have seen one of my videos without knowing it was that nut from the forum
youtube.com/noahjohnson1810

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #12 on: September 14, 2015, 06:48:09 PM
     


Earl Wild owns this piece.

Thal

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Rachmaninoff plays it wonderfully as well.

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #13 on: September 14, 2015, 07:50:41 PM
     


Earl Wild owns this piece.

Thal
Schirmer published a 1938 version which sounds remarkably alike....  don't scream if there are some differences

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Re: Identify this piece?
Reply #14 on: September 14, 2015, 08:01:05 PM
drat/shame. oh well, something to put on the growing 'wishlist' suppose. :'(
great piano + orch piece not to be missed. i've listened to it three times in a row this afternoon alone  :D

sorry i had an old link and didn't paste properly, it was the stephen foster variants i was thinking of
https://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/79003/

thought of you when i saw the banjo variation
sorry for the error  :(

I have got the score for that one. Would have been better to use a real banjo.

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