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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Thurmond R Wonderful playing, Thurmond! Your playing has really matured over the past few years. It's amazing how you handle the difficulty and the sober expressivity required by this Bach piece.…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 22 hrs ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Michelle R Beautiful playing of a beautiful piece, Michelle! As always you play with such a delicacy. Thank you for sharing it!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 23 hrs ago
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Judy Kuan Brilliant and virtuosic playing, Judy! Such a powerful and expressive performance. Big bravo!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 9 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Victoria Macdonald Such expressive playing, Victoria, with a beautiful variety of tone colors, Bravo!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 9 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Derek McConville Delicate playing of a beautiful piece. I didn't know it, thansk for sharing it!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 9 days ago
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Scott Nguyen Amazing, absolutely great! A very young artist playing a gorgoeus Chopin. Congratulations Scott! A huge bravo!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Marc M Very good job, Marc! This étude is... devilishly difficult.
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Andrew Smith Great playing, Andrew! I like your warm and expressive voicing. As for the camera nerves... I guess they're getting better after a few Tonebase challenges, but you know,…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Andrew Smith Thanks so much, Andrew! I'm doing my best to keep both hemispheres entertained, on superior tasks of course, hahaha. By the way, you know Arthur Schopenhauer had an insightful and…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Aleksandra Bogomaz Thank you so much, Aleksandra! You're very kind, I'll try to play it a bit faster and with a lighter texture.
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Priya Viseskul @Kerstin @Mark Cooper @Marc M Thank you so much for your kind words!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 11 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Aleksandra Bogomaz Expressive cantabile, Aleksandra! I like your flexibility with tempo and dynamics, beautiful.
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- Juan_Carlos
- 13 days ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Priya Viseskul Extraordinary job, Priya. I like the powerful sense of rhythm, it never slows down.
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- Juan_Carlos
- 13 days ago
- 1
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Mark Cooper It's a wonderful interpretation, Mark. full of the dramatic contrasts that make this piece so gorgeous. Bravo!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 13 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Paul Larson Sounds beautiful, Paul.
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- Juan_Carlos
- 13 days ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
Hi eveyone, Here is my video of the Étude Op. 10 Nº 5 (Black Keys). What can I say... As always, I was a bit overly optimistic and hoped to achieve a livelier and more accurate interpretation,…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 13 days ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Helen Lee Very good playing, Helen. Your approach to Bach has that forward-driving flow ("Fortspinnung" in German, I think 🤔...), so full of contagious vitality,…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 3 wk ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Peter Golemme Thanks so much, Peter, for your kind words. I really love that sentence, it totally resonates with me: "Bach offers the most music per square inch of any composer". Just brilliant!!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 3 wk ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Eloise Kim Thank you so much, Eloise, for your feedback. Of course, I'll follow your suggestions, and I found Norman Krieger's video very inspiring and helpful.…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 3 wk ago
- 1
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
Hi @Eloise Kim ! I'd like to share both assignments (weeks 2 and 3) in this message, because I couldn't find the time last week to complete the first one.…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 3 wk ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Alexander Weymann I had listened to your video but, you know, as soon as I saw it here I immediately listened to your Scriabin again. Superb. Bravo, Alexander!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 1 mth ago
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Alexander Weymann Thank you so much, Alexander!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Vidhya Bashyam Thank you, Vidhya. You know that little story. "Which is more important, asked Big Panda, the journey or the destination? The company, said Tiny Dragon".
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- Juan_Carlos
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Michelle R Beautiful piece, looking forward to hearing you play it!
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- Juan_Carlos
- 1 mth ago
- 1
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
I'll play and try to make a decent video of the Étude Op. 10 Nº 5, "Black Keys". I've always found the phrase attributed to Arthur Rubinstein to be perfect: This étude sparkles like champagne.…
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- Juan_Carlos
- 1 mth ago
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