WEEK 1: Discovering Schubert Month
Dear Pianists,
Welcome welcome! It's always a highlight for me to hear your playing and get to celebrate in your achievements with you. This is the thread where we'll all be posting our biweekly updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying!
Twice a week between February 1st and February 22nd, I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Piece you are working on:
- One passage you are satisfied with:
- One passage you are not yet satisfied with:
- (Optional): a video of you performing any or all of the piece you've been practicing!
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Seeking Viennese elegance in Schubert's Valses Sentimentales
My general goal for 2022 was to become a better learner i.e., to focus on the process of learning rather than obsessing about the product. For this reason, I chose the Valses Sentimentales (how many? We'll see!) for this challenge.
I would like to play these waltzes with all of the grace and sense of courtship I can muster. Apologies for the splice: for now, I can't seem to remember what exactly belongs to which waltz - it's all too fresh.
I can't wait to learn the next few and post again. These pieces are pure joy!
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Monika Tusnady Beautiful, Monika! I hear the joy in your playing! Thank you :)
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Monika Tusnady How lovely these waltzes, and your playing are! Looking forward to more!
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Monika Tusnady Beautiful and full of grace and sense of courtship! Of course!
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Monika Tusnady nice! You bring these to life... I want to get up and dance.
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Monika Tusnady Verry well! I also learn some of these sentimental waltzes for the challenge. I don't know if I will be able to play all the one that I choose, I will see. I choose the #5 #13 #18 #19 and #20.
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Monika Tusnady Des moments JOYEUX!
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Monika Tusnady This is the last, but not least, post for today - almost, I have just remembered one more to do. You have expressed the very essence of these waltzes. Your neatness is always beautiful to see. Thank you.
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Monika Tusnady you play these pieces with such elegance and charm! Delightful.
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Hello everyone! To begin with, I have tried to dust off this Impromptu op. 142 nº 2 that I played a few years ago. In the next weeks, I am going to learn at least the Moment Musicaux nº 3 in F minor, I would like to play it with the proper sound and humor.
In the Impromptu op. 142 nº 2 I find very difficult to use the sustain pedal correctly...
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Juan Carlos Olite thank you!!!! I always love your playing because it’s so intentional and goal-driven. What a perfect piece for q!
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Juan Carlos Olite truly lovely playing... you understand the piece emotionally and poetically and you make me want to learn it... the best compliment I can give.
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Juan Carlos Olite , nice playing! Thanks for sharing. I'm learning this piece for the Schubert challenge so wanted ask what trill you play in measure 76. There seems to be a debate as to whether it should be played between F# and G or between F# and G#.
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Juan Carlos Olite Bravo, Juan Carlos! Always love listening to your playing.
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Anthony Miyake Thank you for your words and information, Anthony! I have always played (F#-G#) and have no idea about this debate. What interesting articles! Thank you!
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Monika Tusnady Charlie Gesualdo Sindre Skarelven Thank you for your kind words! I am very happy with this Schubert's month! What a beautiful music he composed for us, the piano lovers!
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Juan Carlos Olite Nice! I opened the score while you were playing. I will like to learn that impromtus, not for the chanllenge, but for my own pleasure. I love Schubert!
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Juan Carlos Olite I love EVERYTHING you play, dear Juan Carlos. Your phrasing and musicality inspire me!
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Gail Starr Thank you so much, Gail!
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Aline Valade Thank you very much, Aline! It is a beautiful piece and it sounds Schubert through and through.
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Juan Carlos Olite , yes, F#-G# is what I'm playing now. It seems to be the consensus although would still be open to interpretation since technically it wasn't marked as such in the original score.
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Juan Carlos Olite Played beautifully - as ever!
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Roy James-Pike Thank you very much, Roy!
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Juan Carlos Olite Bravo! I always enjoy your playing so much.
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Susan Rogers Thank you so much, Susan!
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