Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)
Originally posted by: calpha
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)
If you could play the whole thing, and not just the famous "cartoon" part then I bow.
As far as technical piano pieces------most Lizst stuff is awesome. Damn, I forget the name of that concerto.........
But for me.....I have a few favorite pieces....none of which I can play.
Beethoven----Emperor's Concerto----(might be wrong name----Van Cliburn played it in the Russian competition in the 60s)
Chopin---Polonaise in A-Flat Minor----Horowitz had a famous performance of that
Tchaiykovsky (sp)---Concerto #1
Damn, it's too late...my brain isn't working----I can't think of the names now. I think Lizst--Concerto #3----it was the one that David Helfgot played in the movie Shine.
Moonlight sonata--3rd Movement
Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: calpha
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Check out Franz Lizt - Hungarian Rhapsody, one of my favourites to play (back when I could)
If you could play the whole thing, and not just the famous "cartoon" part then I bow.
As far as technical piano pieces------most Lizst stuff is awesome. Damn, I forget the name of that concerto.........
But for me.....I have a few favorite pieces....none of which I can play.
Beethoven----Emperor's Concerto----(might be wrong name----Van Cliburn played it in the Russian competition in the 60s)
Chopin---Polonaise in A-Flat Minor----Horowitz had a famous performance of that
Tchaiykovsky (sp)---Concerto #1
Damn, it's too late...my brain isn't working----I can't think of the names now. I think Lizst--Concerto #3----it was the one that David Helfgot played in the movie Shine.
Moonlight sonata--3rd Movement
Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium
Originally posted by: calpha
Yeah I did play the whole thing. I took 11 years of classical piano training. I played the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata from memory when I was 12 years old (12 pages of music). My greatest accomplishments were that Lizt piece, and Edward MacDowell's Praeludium
Awesome. I didn't start piano until I was 16....I played trumpet since I was 12....so I could read fine---but I just didn't start piano early enough to develop the dexterity that people get when playing from an early age. I could play parts of Chopin's polonaise---but not up to speed.
But 12 years of classical training----I wish like hell I would have had the skills for that. the whole hungarian rhapsody is one of my favorite pieces to hear performed live. My music theory professor in college was actually lucky enough to have attended concerts by both Horowitz and Van Cliburn when he was getting his PhD in New York.
I don't know who I envy more---peopel with loads of classical training---or those that are just gifted out of this world......I went to school with a guy that had the closest thing to perfect pitch combined with a photographic memory for music. I really liked Harry Connick Jr's "Winterland Medly" from When Harry met sally, and that sorry SOB (my college friend) sat down and listened to it for about 10 minutes and then played it. Bastard. But then again, that hardly compares to the 60 minute special I saw in 1994/1995 about a 12 yr old kid attending Juliard.......
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Haha, I played something for you didn't I Brian?
edit: yeah, brian got to hear the intro to my macdowell masterpiece
Originally posted by: jcwagers
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain, The Way It Is, The Valley Road
Sweet! The non tu-pac version! I've always wondered who it was originally by.Originally posted by: jcwagers
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain, The Way It Is, The Valley Road