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Re: Week 4: Discovering Schubert Month: Reflections and Watch Party
@Anthony Miyake Thank you and for your help in sorting out a Youtube account! It's a bit of a process but I now understand it. Thanks again!
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Roy's Practice Diary - Month 3

@Hilda Hello Hilda, you seemed to have the impression that I was becoming frustrated by fingering. This used to be the case as I have a number of very old Urtext editions in which the fingering is…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Discovering Schubert Month: Reflections and Watch Party
@Anthony Miyake Thank you for letting me know. Yes, I misunderstood the setting. I have now changed the setting to 'unlisted'. Please do me a big favour and try the links again and let me know…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 4: Discovering Schubert Month: Reflections and Watch Party
The second one is No 15 in F minor https://youtu.be/63RWwibs-8w
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 4: Discovering Schubert Month: Reflections and Watch Party
This is the first of the recordings that I made previously but this time via Youtube to have all of each Waltz - No 7 in B flat https://youtu.be/j5UANr63gEg
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 2: Discovering Schubert Month
@Hilda Sorry Hilda, I have only just seen this as the alerts to your Week 2 and 3 responses arrived a couple of days ago at the same time. I did not do enough technical work at the piano many years…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Hilda Thank you Hilda for your kind comments. I am really pleased that I plucked up the courage to start posting videos. It's quite clear that many of the TB students are working pianists and their…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Michael We saw a concert a few weeks' ago with Sir Andras Schiff, who played this A major sonata. Schubert wrote three sonatas as a 'trilogy' as is well-known.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
This is the second half Waltz No 15. The excessive rubato at the end is because I am making sure that I use the correct fingerings. One of my observations from this challenge is that I am…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
This is the first half of Waltz No: 15 from Opus33 D 783. There's one mistake as one of our cats, Ash, arrived at the door asking to be fed. I didn't re-record to remove the mistake as it's quite…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
Part 2 of the Waltz No 7. No 15 to follow after tonight's live session.
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
I realise that I need to sort out the Youtube account in order to be able to record in a better way, but for now this is the first part of Op.33 D. 783 No 7 - second half to follow!
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Ching Lee Goh Thank you for the advice. I shall do that very soon.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Gail Starr Thank you Gail. I shall explore this later but I think I shall try to record each waltz in two halves without a repeat and see if that reduces the size sufficiently to upload it.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Roy James-Pike I just received a message saying that the file is too large so it didn't upload the fist of two recordings. It was only a shor waltz lasting less than a minute so it begs the…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
I decided this week that I would upload the two Schubert waltzes that I chose to do, although it should be said that this community challenge has inspired me to return to many other pieces that I…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Brother Will Green another link: https://www.blackdykeband.co.uk/black-dyke-band-became-the-first-brass-band-to-perform-at-carneigie-hall/
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Brother Will Green You are very welcome. I am enjoying hearing the 'master classes' on TB. I am learning so much from them. This is a fabulous resource. It's a cornupia without any limit.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Hilda Firstly, please accept my apologies but I shall not be in your session on memorising later today. I shall hear it later on the play-back. We're off to a concert - the Black Dyke Mills Band,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Brother Will Green So well done to have this under your belt in such a relatively short space of time. You have captured Schubert's style! I like your audio settings too.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month
@Charlie Gesualdo Lovely answer, which I shall borrow, if you don't mind, as my thoughts are the same.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 2: Discovering Schubert Month
I have just discovered that I didn't write anything in Week 1, whereas my memory tells me that I did. So, Week 1 Questions Piece you are working on: I am revisiting Sechzehn Deutsche Tanze und zwei…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 1: Discovering Schubert Month
@Michael I have found this piece, which you and your partner might like?
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- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 1: Discovering Schubert Month
@Monika Tusnady This is the last, but not least, post for today - almost, I have just remembered one more to do. You have expressed the very essence of these waltzes.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 1: Discovering Schubert Month
@Pauline I saw your email but have only just found where you placed this post in TB. I love the poetry of your description. This is justification alone for the inclusion of 'lirupt' in the OED!…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
- February: Discovering Schubert Month
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