ILYA ITIN offers advice to a participant in the Miami International Piano Festival Academy on Rachmaninoff Elegie Op. 3. No. 1. July 19, 2016 Nova Southeastern University www.miamipianofestacademy.com
Also, this student is the perfect example that just goes to show that playing the piano is only an instrument, and the music comes from deep inside the mind and soul.
Yes. That's my impression. He's overwhelming her. It's one thing to be in touch with the music but it's also necessary to be in touch with the student otherwise it's hard work. This is painfully hard work. He needs to retrench, calm down and get present to the student. She's not a machine.
I feel that this student should have her teacher come out and get the lesson. She's clearly never been encouraged to think about the music very deeply. However, it does give Mr Itin a chance to explain much more and so for the viewer it becomes more interesting.
Interesting to listen, I don't know what kind of passion this woman has when it comes to Rachmaminoff, but it does not sound like she has it. Difficult to work with this student. Master classes are amazing to watch, I hope there is more Rachmaninoff master classes, only with a student that really feels the music.
Yeah, understand deeply music takes a long time for some people, get some meaning of the piece you are playing is not that easy. Also, she doesn't have to feel the music like you, there's a lot of ways to tell how you feel. Don't take this bad, greetings :)
The distinct difference between a pianist and an artist. Romantic era music isn't meant to be precise it's meant to be expressive. Hate to sound like a jerk but most Asian pianist go with Mozart or Beethoven or Bach for that reason..
I love that Ilya stops her and helps her with phrasing, and techniques to change the color of the notes. I am currently learning this piece, and my teacher is doing the exact same thing with me. I worked on the tenutos on the first 2 pages for 2 weeks just to figure out how to produce a different sound. I also would give the young lady a lot of credit. If I were her I would be so nervous and my brain would be so frozen in the presence of such a great teacher and muscian. Love Ilya Itin. All teachers should teach like this at this level.
@@Zdanler I have not played this piece any more since last year. i couldn't see any improvement in my playing although i did my best. haha 🤣i couldnt make the sound i really wanted and i couldnt follow the required tempo. my hands were injured long ago....this might be the reason why i found this more and more difficult and couldnt see any improvement 🤣🤣
Interesting. I've just started studying the Elegie for grade 8 and the teachers notes for the grade suggest that the student develop a narrative to establish what the music is saying.
It is essentially what he is doing except he it doing it without forcing a specific narrative, I'm assuming he's doing that to let the student have her own narrative in the process (which it doesn't look like she has). I too am learning the Elegie, but it conveys such expressions of sadness and grief that words would be never able to describe, so I would say it's better to focus on the music how it is not on a specific narrative.
With a student as young as her, I don't think her main focus should be her interpretation of the piece. Sure, the piece is most definitely open to rubato and interpretation, but she'd be much better off sticking with Rachmaninoff's score. If she wants to self interpret, then it has to be convincing and so far, I haven't been convinced in the spots where she plays to her liking. Hope she can go far in the future, and also learn a bit of music theory. Would be very interested to see a video of her playing after the Master Class.
