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Re: EXCLUSIVE: Apply for the tonebase Mentorship Program - with SARA DAVIS BUECHNER @Akina Dear Akina: Apologies that I did not notice this page of comments until today (June 5). Regarding the Jonás stretching exercises, of course you should never do anything that truly feels…
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Re: EXCLUSIVE: Apply for the tonebase Mentorship Program - with SARA DAVIS BUECHNER Hi David! Sorry that you didn't connect this time, but no worries. I am sure we'll do more of these as it's been most enjoyable and instructive for the participants.…
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Re: What is your Favorite Rachmaninoff Concerto? My favorite Rachmaninoff Concerto to perform is the one in E major by either Josef Marx or Moritz Moszkowski -- the latter, by the way, being dedicated to Josef Hofmann,…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Michael Neumann's signature volume on Mozart, "Ornamentation and Embellishment in Mozart" (Princeton U Press) is a vital work that is also quite entertaining to read.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Sherry Knowles The challenge of matching up rhythms of 5 vs. 4, or 4 vs. 3, etc. is in NOT figuring out what finger hits in the right in the space with the left or whatever.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @aliceyip Alice, hope you got my answers which I pasted just a little while ago.
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Scott Nguyễn Dear Scott's Dad: I enjoyed those videos very much! You have a very talented son. Good overall command of rhythm though the ritards in KV 332 are a bit too much (too slow).…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Tammy Tammy, that is so kind of you. I do love playing that piece. And I'm so gratified that you enjoy it so much. Hope you can hear me play it live some time.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Sofia Dear Sofia: I'd say, ease up on the trills. If they are slow, no problem. It's not supposed to be a virtuoso work! The main point is to enjoy the playing.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Sindre Skarelven More TB material coming, on piano technique and the teaching works of Alberto Jonás. Stay tuned! Ornaments do not necessarily begin on the upper neighbor.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Heidi Wowza indeed, thanks for your nice words and geez what a question. I would say that the biggest misconceptions in Mozart are also found in less-successful Bach playing -- tempos too fast,…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Steve Coffey Dear Steve: Thanks for your nice words. And give my salutations to the Montauk Lighthouse! -- one of my very favorite places to be. Ornamentation and embellishment in Mozart is a very…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Michael Hard to say. I like to play the Yamaha and Bechstein pianos which I think serve Mozart, Scarlatti and Schubert very well. But I've enjoyed playing such music on Steinways and Baldwins and…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @aliceyip Dear Alice: WOW what a detailed query! Answers. 1. It's an improvisatory opening, like an Organ Prelude. Use pedal as you like and employ rhythmic freedom. Mostly legato, I would say. 2.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Robert Cating Hard to choose favorites among a trove of immeasurable masterpieces. In my late teens I dove into KV 533/494 and it's just such a perfect and incredible piece that I do have it in a…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Andrea Buckland My general rule of thumb is that if such grace notes do NOT have a cross on the stem, they should be played melodically, i.e. as a vocal grace note.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Sherry Knowles Dear Sherry: I wouldn't worry too much about "cementing" fingering in the Brahms exercises. I think they are meant to have fluidity. And of course it's the intellectual idea of how do…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Michael Dear Michael: Your essay is quite detailed and intellectually probing and I doubt that I am up to the best reply. I had the great honor of working with Badura-Skoda in his last years and can…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Ching Lee Goh Dear Ching Lee: I'd say that there are many words we can use to describe Mozart's most exquisite Rondo in A minor -- painful, yes, but also poignant, nostalgic,…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Lars Dear Lars: I too have struggled with those scales and tried several fingerings. Make sure to differentiate between the small notes which must be executed rapidly,…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Tim Dear Tim: Thanks for your nice words. I struggle every day to make my music sound cohesive LOL. Welcome to the club! As for your progress, it is probably better than you think.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Michelle Dear Michelle, performing in public always guarantees a certain amount of distraction and nervousness which shows itself in the form of simple mistakes and of course, memory slips.…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @Angelo B. Dear Angelo: I think it is always a good idea to practice legato in general, and in the case of Mozart, many of the great European players have advocated a kind of overlapping legato…
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything! @aliceyip Dear Alice: Happy to answer questions about any period at all.
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