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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And here is Gade. I’m still trying to figure out all the recording. The sound is better from the computer, but the video freezes halfway through (sound continues). So this is from the iPad. The sound isn’t as good, but it gives you the idea.
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Jennifer Mehta Loved it! Brava!
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It's not exactly one of the Grieg's "Lyric Pieces", but it is a Grieg Lyric Piece indeed (Solveig's Song). I remember when I was a child listening over and over a vinyl disc of the Peer Gynt suites in an old record player...
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Juan Carlos Olite So beautiful in it’s simplicity and deep emotion! Feels like a long lost memory of sad and also happy times.
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Juan Carlos Olite Thanks for sharing this piece, Juan Carlos! It's so evocative and lyrical, and beautiful playing as always!
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Juan Carlos Olite How beautiful, and played with such feeling. You can sense the sadness/loss, and then the memories of happiness. Thank you for sharing this!!!!!!!
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Juan Carlos Olite That was so beautiful! You sing it so well! So lyrical. I adore this song of course. Thank you for playing it.
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Juan Carlos Olite Oh, Juan Carlos! This was so beautiful. There were moments of starkness contrasted with moments where the light began to shine. You captured these little snapshots of emotion so well. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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Juan Carlos Olite oh - I love the Peer Gynt Suite! Do you play the whole suite? Would love to hear that!
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Vidhya Bashyam Natalie Peh Jennifer Mehta Sindre Skarelven Michelle R Andrea Buckland Thank you so much, piano friends! I like playing all kind of piano transcriptions, Andrea. But, I don't usually study the pieces or fragments carefully, it's simply reading here and there... In this case, for the Grieg challenge, I thought it would be nice to focus in this piece that I love. Of course, the whole Suite 1 (Morning Mood, Death of Ase, Anitra's Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King) is absolutely great to play on the piano.
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Juan Carlos Olite Solveig's Song is one of my favorites...that whole suite is a gem, really. Nice work!
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Juan Carlos Olite you are such an artist! I am always moved by the depth ofyour musicianship!
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Marc M Jackie Thank you so much!
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Juan Carlos Olite magical playing! I loved this version of this piece.
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Derek McConville Thank you so much, Derek!
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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 This is absolutely enchanting- like a fairy tale! Lovely playing and great choice of piece.
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Natalie Peh Beautiful! Thank you! Played so well.
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Natalie Peh So beautiful, Natalie! Playing Grieg fits you very well! Enchanting piece indeed.
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Natalie Peh Lovely playing, Natalie. I really enjoyed listening to you play this piece.
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Vidhya Bashyam Sindre Skarelven Jennifer Mehta Michelle R thanks for your kind and encouraging comments! I am so inspired by these lyric pieces and enjoyed watching all the wonderful videos that everyone has put up so far! Grieg is so fresh and so unique!
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Natalie Peh This is so nice! Really nice mood. It also has so many consecutive fifths and (I think) fourths — after hearing you play this, I am now realizing how much Grieg uses them in a lot of his music!
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Natalie Peh very nice, Natalie! There is so much cheerfulness in the melancholy - the opposite of Chopin.
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Tammy Andrea Buckland glad you like the video! Good observation, Tammy- fifths and some fourths, perhaps that lends it the distinctive Grieg style and, as Andrea mentioned, melancholy, carried with a sense of fortitude and optimism!
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Natalie Peh Love it, Natalie! Your playing is charming and beautiful, as Vidhya says it sounds like a fairy tale.
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Juan Carlos Olite thanks, Juan Carlos! Really glad that you like it
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