Week 3: Telling your Tale!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week between June 6 - June 15 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. We are reaching the home stretch of this challenge! For the next week, RECORD yourself playing your selected pieces by Grieg!
2. We are going to celebrate your hard work and submissions in a WATCH PARTY on Grieg's Birthday
JUNE 15th at 11am PT
Livestream link coming soon!
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My very first ever Grieg piano piece! This is Es War Einmal (Once Upon a Time) from Opus 71, No. 1. I am so grateful to be on this wonderful and enchanting journey!
(Please do turn the volume right up, not sure why the video came out a bit quiet)
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Natalie Peh wonderful first piece to play by Grieg :) sounded lovely
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Derek McConville thanks, Derek! :)
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I'm so bad at recording myself. Here is my dusting off of the Butterfly from Op. 43 of the Lyric Pieces. About forty years ago, my teacher offered to teach this to me for my Grade IX (RCM) repertoire, but I preferred to play Debussy's Reverie instead.
With Butterfly, I was never able to get the rhythm right nor memorize it.
I'm changing pianos so this is the last chance to record on my Boston (which has not been tuned this season because it is being taken away).
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Grace Well done Grace, sounds great!
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Grace nice playing, Grace! Thanks for sharing this. Grieg must have been fond of butterflies, to have written this piece :)
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I played with Butterfly on my divine new piano so much that I was able to memorize it!
Here's a condensed version with no repeats. I also used a USB mic and no una corda (soft pedal). I can control the pianissimo much better on this piano, so maybe una corda is unnecessary. Does it sound any better?
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Grace Sounds great, Grace!
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Grace yes, this video is even nicer! Well done!
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Grace very nice! I haven’t played this one yet. It was nice to hear it.
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Finishing up the op. 54 (Book V of the lyrical pieces) with the last two pieces. This is Scherzo (nr5) and Klokkeklang/Bell ringing (nr6).
Op 54. nr 1 and 2 Gjetergutt/Shepherd's boy and Gangar/Norwegian March, is posted in Week 1.
Op. 54 nr 3 and 4 Trolltog/March of the Trolls and Notturno is posted in Week 2.
Thanks everyone, for a joyous journey with these treasured pieces.
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Sindre Skarelven Absolutely beautiful playing, Sindre. Scherzo put a smile on my face, and I really enjoyed how you played Klokkeklang - there was a quality to it that I haven't heard from other performances of this piece. I don't know what that quality is, but I just know I liked it very much! Thank you for taking us on this journey through all the op. 54 pieces.
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Sindre Skarelven Beautiful, gorgeous playing, Sindre! Such a mesmerising performance. I especially liked the bell tone that you had in the second piece :) Bravo!!
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Sindre Skarelven stunning, as always! That Scherzo is so capricious and impish, and you play it with verve. The Klokkeklang is a really unusual piece, quite avant-garde for Grieg, and I love the haunting, quietly solemn atmosphere you are creating.
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Sindre Skarelven What a wonderful and amazing job you have done in this challenge, Sindre! You have taught us the beautiful and diverse piano language of Grieg with this admirable journey through the entire op. 54. Bravo!
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Michelle R Natalie Peh Alexander Weymann Juan Carlos Olite Thank you so much for all your kind comments! We’ve had a great journey together with Grieg!
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Sindre Skarelven wow! Amazing and beautiful! There is a carillon not all that far from where we live. The harmonics of the notes Grieg chose for “Bell Ringing” remind me of that carillon. Absolutely beautiful! Thank you.
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Sindre Skarelven Bravo Sindre! Really enjoyed hearing you play the whole set of Op 54. Amazing collection of pieces and wonderful interpretation!
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Jennifer Mehta Vidhya Bashyam Thank you Jennifer and Vidhya! Yes, the piano can imitate so many different sounds and feelings, and I think that comes out really well in this opus.
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Here is my go at the waltz.
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Richard George Littlewood Nice playing, Richard!
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Richard George Littlewood Nice work, Richard! I love this waltz.
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Richard George Littlewood sounds nice! Thanks for sharing the waltz!
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Richard George Littlewood very nice
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Richard George Littlewood Nice playing! Grieg’s waltzes are lovely.
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you Vidhya, and Juan and Sindre and Jennifer.
I enjoyed learning that waltz. The middle section is difficult, you should probably slow it right down but doing that in the middle of a piece, is not easy either.
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