Week 4: Final Submissions!
WELCOME TO THE LATEST COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!
For this challenge "A Fresh Start" the goal is to pick a BRAND-NEW piece to work on this month.
This is the time to finally open that score that you have been thinking about and get to work!
WHAT ARE WE DOING IN WEEK 4?
1. Let's share our final progress this week - post a video of a selection, part, or entire piece to showcase your progress this month!
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Here’s where I am. Still an occasional slip, but I’m getting closer. The hardest part of the piece is the spread of the notes…left hand is all over the keyboard, and the right hand has adds some jumps to the mix at the end also. The result is that I can’t just muscle memory the piece.
https://youtu.be/7kjgKMbt7ic (edit: this is not final version...see below.)If I can eke out something better later this week I’ll post again. Will there be a watch party for this challenge? If not might play this for the May concert.
EDIT: FINAL VERSION HERE (with added commentary for fun lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPGFox7s7Cw
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Jack vreeland Angela Fogg Juan Carlos Olite Sindre Skarelven Judy Kuan Thank you for the kind words!
Alexander Weymann The second of the half really does have a sort of hypnotic quality to it--there's a lot of echoing of phrases after the initial theme repeats. Interesting how the piece crescendos into a diminished chord pattern and then goes via a whole tone scale to that super crunchy penultimate chord, the whole of which makes the last chord really satisfying.
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Here is what I managed after 3 weeks. The hardest part is the voicing and the unusual chord jumps.
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Richard Littlewood Very pretty. Nice work!
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Richard Littlewood The quiet melancholy came through, and your voicing sounded great to me. I wouldn't have guessed that was Brahms!
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Richard Littlewood Beautiful playing, Richard!
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Richard Littlewood Very beautiful! I haven’t heard this piece before.
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Richard Littlewood Very nice, beautiful. Bravo!
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Thank you Heng-Pin Chen, Sindre, Vidhya, Judy and Michelle.
This is a recently discovered autographed Brahms piece, the melody of which he later went on to put into a piano, horn, violin trio.
It is full of tension and variety, so very interesting to play.
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Richard Littlewood Lovely piece and well played, thank you so much!
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Richard Littlewood Sounds very beautiful, Richard! The voicing is excellent and the melody traps the listener.
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Richard Littlewood Elegantly performed. Thank you.
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Richard Littlewood gorgeous piece it was great to hear you play it!
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Richard Littlewood I had never heard this piece before. It’s great—well done!
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Richard Littlewood didn't Dominic share this with us in last year's Brahms Mini Challenge? I think that's where I remember it from. Lovely piece, with typical aching Brahmsian harmonies. Very well played.
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Alexander Weymann There was a livestream a while back, but it wasn't Dominic - this piece was included for sure.
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Richard Littlewood no, I meant the score (the sheet music), not a performance.
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Alexander Weymann It wasn't the Brahms challenge. I found this score on a different livestream - although I don't clearly remember - it was a different presenter for sure, another pianist, not Dominic.
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Richard Littlewood Alexander Weymann
Yes, I remember there was a Mini Challenge on some of Brahms forgotten pieces, including this one. I didn’t take part myself, but I noticed it. There was a related Live Stream with Adam Golka, which I think you’re referring to, Richard.
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I didn't have time to really practice on the piano this week, but did some thinking about the music. Today, while I was recording, I felt everything was different - tempo, mood, emotion, mind set, etc. - just different. I am not sure if it's in a good way or not. But, I am sure there are a lot to improve. Anyway, please listen to my final submission and give me some feedback. Thank you everyone!
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Heng-Pin Chen Bravo, Heng-Pin! All pieces sounds so great, and especially the first one is very moving to me. I think that your way of thinking about the music has been very rewarding. Sometimes it’s nice to take a step back and reflect, rather then practice over and over something that might not even be what we’re after. Anyway, well done!
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Heng-Pin Chen Sounds beautiful! Very natural and flowing.
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Heng-Pin Chen Really lovely! The first one is gorgeous: I enjoyed your dynamic contrast and color changes, and such a beautiful ending. I felt and heard much more direction in the second one; it flowed quite well and was a wonderful transition between one and three. Three is fun to listen to and your playing graceful and elegant. Bravo!
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Sindre Skarelven Vidhya Bashyam Michelle R Your comments really gave me some inputs from the "audience." It always helps me shape my music. Thank you all!
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Heng-Pin Chen Wonderful! Sounds so organic, yes like you've found your voice during taking a brief respite from the piano.
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Heng-Pin Chen It is interesting how your mind continues to ‘work’ on the music even when you are not actually playing it. Lovely performance-thank you.
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