Public improvisation

[ronde_des_sylphes]

So, my train was cancelled and I had over an hour to spend...


I decided to run through some paraphrases, etudes and I finished with an improvisation (I only thought to record the last couple of items, however.) The piano isn't in ideal condition and I imagine the current UK heatwave isn't helping the tuning, but it's still better than the vast majority of public pianos.

[ted]

In other hands this idiom can easily sound like something out of Paling’s Albums. With you it always provides me a “magic casement” into the “faery land” of the old world. There is to me a clear difference between clever imitation and deeply creative assimilation of style, and you have the latter. Pleased someone actually stopped to listen this time.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks, Ted. This improvisation is very free, and somewhat over arpeggio heavy, but almost by accident I was in places improvising around one of my own themes! I'm going to be doing some "in concert" improvisation in two weeks' time, so that could be interesting. I did have a little bit of a captive audience which was quite nice, as it was to also be appreciated!