Week 3: Discovering Schubert Month

CK Great job!  I love your musicality!

CK Bravo! Your fabulous performances answer Hilda’s question of the week! I love your varied choice of repertoire and your sensitive approach to all of these pieces. 

CK Amazing variety of Schubert pieces! Sounds great!

CK 

Gail Starr hello, thanks for spending your precious time on listening it.

Monika Tusnady Thanks on those feedback. Am not sure if I did answered Hilda's questions?! As I find those questions are difficult for me to answer. I just played what I know and how I felt it while learning the pieces. 

Vidhya Bashyam thanks for listening. 

Charlie Gesualdo thankyou. 

Hilda Huang Good day. Thanks for giving me such remarks. As mentioned in the practicing diary, I flipped-through part of the collected books I had for years.... Then only I started to learn it. Well, I wish that my sight-reading was that superb, but the truth always the opposite.

 

(in brief)

1. Valse Sentimentale Op.50 (D.799) No.13

    -> heard the piece before; Came across the score at a glance, but only learnt it this time. 

 

2. Moment Musicals Op.94 No.3 F minor

    -> one of my favourite piece of music since childhood till now. 

    -> attempted to learn by sight-read, in the past (i think the last time i played was few years

         ago), never ever successful. Only this time, which it has surprised me able to learn, play and

         recorded in a rather smooth manner. 

 

3. Impromptu D.899 G-flat major

    -> the first time I've learnt and to be able to play it in a 'decent' way back in 1997. Ever since, I

         always make sure I won't forget about this lovely repertoire, hence, always practising back

         on this piece. But as the time goes back, I felt that I totally forgotten what was it like or

         supposed to be. 

    -> Lucky enough that, I was able to re-visit and re-learnt the piece (which given me more in-

         depth understanding of the piece).  

    -> Hence, for this recording, am actually hoping that I could played the best version of it, but it

         wasn't. Realizing that I still got lots of things to handle under-controlled. 

 

4. Serenade - schubert's version

    -> came across the tune during childhood. Had sight-read it on and off (but guess more than a

         decade). Only this time, I tried to learn it and also explore a bit on its voicing. 

 

5. Serenade - Liszt's version

    -> learnt it this time. Didn't know that there's Liszt version 

    -> In the recording, has added some spontaneous self interpretation. 

 

6. Sonata in A minor D.845, 1st movement

    -> Heard this in my teenager time (probably in one of those piano concert which I had

         attended that time). 

    -> Bought the book-2 volume  quite recent years, purely thought that I will be able to self-

         learning it by myself. Again, it's a failure. I think I couldn't reached the 2nd page or perhaps I

         was too lazy!!

    -> So, I supposed this can considered my very first time recorded schubert's piano

         sonata/movement. I still remembered roughly played (sight-read) almost in it during the 2nd

         week of the challenge. 

 

7.  Scherzo in B-flat major D.593 No.1

     -> again just found this piece, decided to learn it after first sight-read attempt. Noticed that I

          doubt I have played such "drama" melody in my life. So, it's a good challenge for me as well. 

CK Such soulful playing! Thank you, CK!

Aline Valade  Aline thanks for sharing that You Tube with Philippe Sly. So hauntingly beautiful. Look forward to your Valses Sentimentales!  Gerry W

geraldw Welcome Geraldw! I am glad that you enjoy it. !

Angela Fogg beautiful playing, Angela! Thanks for sharing!

Angela Fogg thank you Andrea!