I remember you from Winchester School of Art! We managed to play your oboe sonatina on the clarinet! I do very little piano teaching but thought of you today as I suggested 'Joining the Dots' to a pupil. I hope life is treating you will and thanks for your teaching when I was in in my late teens!
Hi Mr. Bullard. The notes you played in M7 differ from those in the book. You played CEGBA. While the book says CEGA. Is this a publishing typo or should we play as written. Am asking because I have ABRSM exam students who are also listening to your recording and I wanted to explain the discrepancy. (For the record, C7 to A sounds prettier IMHO)
Wow! I really love the sound of this. I'm approaching the end of Pianoworks book 1 and after hearing some of these pieces, I'm looking forward to book 2. I just hope the learning curve isn't too steep!
As an adult beginner making my way through Pianoworks 1, this piece took me almost two weeks to fully learn properly. Very much a threshold piece for learning hand movement.
Thank you for adding this piece, sounds brilliant, could you play travelling blues, from same book, would be great to hear the timing, I’m trying to learn through this book, and great to hear.
Hello Zoe, and thank you for your comments! There is a recording of Travelling Blues on the CD that comes with the book - but I will put one up on RU-vid as well in the next few days.
More than twenty years ago I have played this piece with my sister and two musical friends and what a nice piece this is! I also have a lot of fond memories of the performances (in Greek goddesses' clothes) :-)).
1) This beggin in a sort of fugue, maybe canon, some themes are evolveing in a strange and really particular way, the improv is well structured, theres some cuts to play some notes, I can ear sometimes super good note sequences. 2) it begins easly, then some complex -maybe 7th- chords, again, the theme come again, and after that, chords, this is structured nicely, this 2nd improv is calm. It continue to evolve to finnish on 4 chords, 3 low and 1 high, pretty complex, it's kind of jazz 3) Speaking of Jazz... Again, the melodie is complex, well mastered, sound like a film music, sometimes 2 same melodies on both hands, somtime, a rich blend between the melody and the left hand, I didnt speak about the rythm, it's awesome, and kept perfectly as long as the music is during, there are some break with up and down the scale, and it ends well with the rest of the melody I can just say, *well done!* The rythm, the melody, the left hand, the music made by the 2 hand work, all this stuff is perfect and really nice to listen. How long have you been playing piano and training improvs? I wonder if one day, I'll be able to improvise music like that^^ PS: sorry if I don't speak rly good, I'm french
Very interesting hearing this performed by the composer. Differs a fair bit from my own take on this delightful short piece. I took a more liberal view of the tempo markings when I recorded it in December 2015 :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1h2gLPqZtZg.html
I enjoy your performance - the extremely slow tempo and the lovely Cavaille Coll sound-set make me think I'm in a big cathedral - whereas my recording just makes me think I'm in my living-room! Alan B
