Let's Play: Spanish Music!
If you missed the FANTASTIC livestream with Magdalena Stern Baczewska this past Saturday, be sure to check it out! She walked us through several centuries of Spanish music, its developments, rhythmic styles, melodic content, and much more - Quite a comprehensive event!
Replay:
A Journey into the world of Spanish Music (with Magdalena Baczewska)
So we decided it would be fun to host a "Mini Challenge" where for the next two weeks we choose a piece to work on and post our progress here!
If you need some suggestions about music to play, check out the livestream or this list that I have compiled! Repertoire below is considered to be on the easier side, due to the nature of this shorter challenge!
Repertoire Suggestions
Editor's Choice:
Sebastian Yradier: El Arreglito (The unknown inspiration for the famous Habanera from the opera, Carmen, by Bizet!)
Advice: Play the piano part, since it pretty much doubles the vocal part the entire time, feel free to add notes from the vocal line into piano part in the final bars!
Intermediate level piece, but one of the most famous and satisfying to play!
Federico Mompou:
A lesser known, but magical composer born in Barcelona! Two options below:
A haunting and gorgeous piece by this famous composer!
Most of his music is very difficult but these short works can prove quite interesting!
Hello Everyone!
If you would like to be featured on our Mini Challenge WATCH PARTY please submit a video of you playing your selected piece by May 15th!
Watch Party MAY 24th at 11am PT!
https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/pno-watch-party-spanish-music-2023
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Here is Sonata No.84 in D major by Padre Antonio Soler.
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Angela Fogg Lovely piece and playing Angela! I have never heard of this composer before. I really liked your lively tempo and delicate dynamics. Nice to hear such a wide range of Spanish composers. Thanks for sharing!
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Angela Fogg great playing, with such a happy and lively intetpretation! Thanks for sharing the video and the wonderful introduction to this composer, I'm so glad to listen to so many new and interesting pieces :)
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Angela Fogg delightful! So crisp and spirited. Hadn't heard this piece before - thank you.
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Angela Fogg Many thanks for this lovely piece. You brought out the delicateness of it!
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I’m so excited to be able to listen in on the Spanish music watch party, later this morning — I’ll be cheering each of you on!
I couldn’t pull things together in time to participate this week. I’ll be working on several pieces of Spanish music with my teacher over the summer, though (more of the Nin-Culmell Tonadas, plus a Granados waltz), and the class and discussion here have been most inspiring!
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https://youtu.be/YHQ_RdnvSN4
Since the watch party is tomorrow rather than yesterday ( I stayed up till 2am for it…) I thought I’d sneak in a second piece - Albeniz’s Andaluza. It’s been so fun listening to everyone and it got my fingers itching to dust off this old piece.-
Ching Lee Goh
Thanks for this and sorry for the confusion regarding the rescheduling!!!
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Dominic Cheli no problem at all. Gave me a chance to rouse up this piece!
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Ching Lee Goh Bravo Ching Lee! I loved it. Thanks for sharing such beautiful music!
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you Vidhya! Spanish music is so infectious!
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Ching Lee Goh love the rhythm to this, and you play it with such flair!
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Ching Lee Goh Absolutely! I didn’t have time for this challenge but will definitely be adding some Spanish music to my list.
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