Public improvisation

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Short improvisation while playing to some other musicians:

[ted]

Classic Andrew, compellingly deep sentiment, like looking through a bottle glass window into the old world, similar to Keats's "magic casements". The difference with you, as I see it, is that what we are hearing is the real thing, not an imitation period drama in music. If the Keats analogy can be extended, the visionary quality of your playing is "forlorn" because its sincerity imparts to us an emotional conviction that those times had something vital which we have now lost yet deeply desire, against impossibility, to repossess. In short, your actual playing is accomplished, but its deeper implication is what draws me in, not execution or keyboard vocabulary.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks, what I like most about such improvisation is that, whilst perhaps it's somewhere between redolent of much 19th century piano writing, or kitsch and the salon, it *is* produced sincerely and honestly and as such is a reflection of my beliefs on how the instrument should be used in the expressive context.

[quantum]

Such fluidity of expression and completely in character with the style.  I am able to loose myself in the poetry. 

It may appear old world from a glance, but is completely faithful to the expressive capabilities of the instrument - like the piano was meant to sing like this. 

[ronde_des_sylphes]

My recollection is that this was from a convivial evening with musician friends. My playing sounds very relaxed and certainly representative of how I would like to play, even if I'm not always as fluent as this.