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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 @Gail Starr indeed
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025 Happy New Year to all! In 2025 I would very much like to learn a new sonata. Composer unclear yet, but very likely (his) name starts with a B. With options among them, my real dilemma is:…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! @Gail Starr Yes! I actually went because of Vikingur. I heard him live in Essen with Goldberg variations and the experience made me his devout follower.…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang duo in Paris. The concert was amazing. They should have a great future as a duet.
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Beethoven's Birthday Challenge! What great idea! I will learn variations nos. 24, 31 and (try) 32 of op. 120.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 3 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! As I need to prepare a short program with Messiaen’s music for organ to be performed in May, I will use this opportunity to stay in his world of sound and attempt to learn his prelude for piano…
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- 9 mths ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: Springtime Recital Hi! If it’s still not too late, I submit Olivier Messiaen’s “Morceau de lecture à vue”. This is my first piece by Messiaen, still work in progress and dynamic balance and phrasing could be better,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 9 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you! And yes, it would be very useful to have TWI-s on articulation, phrasing and fingering. I would clearly benefit.
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 9 mths ago
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- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you very much! A lot of patience expected in the future. Regarding fingering, I’m using Perahia’ s edition. Will check now,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 9 mths ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you very much! Adding a recording. Thanks to the new DMS consciousness :) I’m in a much better place now than I was a week before, however,…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 9 mths ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Group 2 Hi! Thank you very much for the opportunity to learn with you all, and Leann! I’m learning the Rondo from Beethoven’s Pathétique now and am struggling quite a bit with dynamics.…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 10 mths ago
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- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: How to find a good piano teacher? Finding a good teacher is important. You start the relationship for learning, to get better, to keep up the practice, but in the process you understand that she/he is actually also the main person…
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- Astrida_Gobina
- 1 yr ago
- Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Bach WTC fingerings In Bach editions, sometimes, I find the strange fingering a there in order to force a position change for a new phrase or make sure legato is not played.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What is the most memorable moment in a music lesson you’ve ever had? I guess it is important not to give up on yourself and not measure own future by one moment’s mishap. It’s easier said than done though, especially when one is very young and really depends on the…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” Reinis Zarins from Latvia. I find his take on Kreisleriana both fascinating and novel. Here is a link to the recording:…
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- 1 yr ago
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