Confession: I prefer Haydn’s keyboard sonatas to Mozart’s. Anyone else feel the same way? Having a ball learning the hilarious C-dur English Sonata. Here’s some of the 1st mvt.
#Mondaymorning
#piano
#Haydn
#MondayMotivation
Bach’s music is 2-dimensional on paper, 3-dimensional in the sound waves it creates and 4-dimensional in its existence, both momentarily as it is played and eternally as it has endured for over 300 years.
#Bach
#ClassicalMusic
Practicing at top speed with the metronome exposes the weak spots so I know what to fix. This is the Gigue from Partita 4. Wishing everyone a productive week ahead! 🎹🎶👍🏻
#MondayMorningBach
#Bach
#piano
#MondayMotivation
The energy created by juxtaposition of the 2 voices in this Prelude is - for me -
the key to understanding the power of Bach’s music. Wishing you all a week full of creative energy! 💥🎶🎹🙏
#MondayMorningBach
#bach
#piano
#MondayMotivation
A simply lovely
#piano
transcription from Book 2 of my “Stepping Stones to Bach” - the flute solo “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben” from St. Matthew’s Passion.
Enjoy
#MondayMorningBach
and have a good week, everyone!
#bach
#SteppingStonestoBach
🎹🎶
Decided to make a little video in honor of this big guy after all: practicing a part of my next transcription cycle of his lute or lute harpsichord works….this will be the Double of BWV 997. 🙏🎹🎶
#Bach
#HappyBirthday
Johann and Ludwig took over today’s
#MondayMorningBach
and made me share this duet video they made 2 years ago.
🎉Happy 337th BDay to J.S. Bach🎉Still alive and such a blessing for so many of us… 🙏🎂🎊
#Bach
#HappyBirthday
#Beethoven
April 1st marked 150 years since
#Rachmaninov
’s birth so here is some
#MondayMorning
Rach 😀 for you: the D Major Prelude. Enjoy and have a great week!
As many of you know, every day is J.S.
#Bach
’s birthday for me, but still today is special so here is a little something for the 338th!!! 🎉🎂🥳🎶
(Ludwig is uber fastidious hence the wipes.)
#HappyBirthday
#Beethoven
#piano
This solo cembalo movement of Violin Sonata No. 6 replaced the previous version which became the Corrente of the E minor Partita, illustrated 2 tweets below. It’s lovely but so different! Full version on YT.
#MondayMorningBach
#Bach
🎹🎶
#MondayMotivation
#BachOpus1
Reposting this on the anniversary of
#Rachmaninov
’s death. His music endures and this Prelude is my regular warmup - excellent for keeping all 10 digits in shape. 🎹🎶🙏
Since you asked, here the Fugue pairing to last
#MondayMorningBach
’s prelude: in 2018, en route to Sherlock Holmes’ museum in London we saw this creation in a
#piano
store window and popped in. Don’t recall the name of the model.
#Bach
#MondayMotivation
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The title “Tempo di Minuetta” shows
#Bach
’s intention of crafting a queer minimalist gem within the hackneyed form. This is from Partita No. 5, now streaming on all platforms. 💿🎹🎶 Enjoy
#MondayMorningBach
and have a great week!
#BachOpus1
#piano
#MondayMotivation
Radu Lupu with his wife Lisa, 1974. Most vivid concert memory is from my 1990’s Lincoln Center ushering days: him playing Mozart K 533, F-dur. Mesmerizing from the first to the last note. I came home and started learning that Sonata and I love it to this day. 🙏
Today’s MondayMorningBach video is the trailer for my new
#BachOpus1
recording, to be released on Friday, May 6th. Had to cut 9 seconds 😏 This is Praeambulum of Partita No. 5 Link to streaming platforms/retailers in bio. Have a great week! 🎹🎶
#bach
@DelosMusic
@naxosrecords
Curious: do any of my Twitter friends also own the Grove set? I still find this dinosaur of Classical reference extremely helpful.
#ClassicalMusic
#books
#BookShelf
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Some badly needed work for larger arm muscles after months of only
#Bach
(nails painted by my daughter on Mother’s Day). 😀💅
My No. 1 rule with most
#piano
works by
#Chopin
: LEARN THE LH FIRST.
#OrchestralSuites4Hands
are out on all platforms today: a world premiere of the my new arrangement. Here is the famous “Air” - full video can be seen on YT. Thanks for your continued support! 🙏💿🎶🎹🎹
#bach
#piano
#NewMusicAlert
Once, Sviatoslav Richter was uneasy before a Liszt concerto performance. When asked why he is so nervous, he said: “I’m afraid of feeling ashamed.”
“Ashamed in front of whom? The audience?”
#Richter
got extremely serious and replied: “No. In front of
#Liszt
.”
Practicing what I preach: finally took time to focus on the fingerings in this
#Chopin
coda. Settled on a thumb “slide” - normally a last resort, but it works here if I deliberately slow down to show the harmony change. 🎹🎵
#MindfulMondays
#pianotips
#piano
Our weekly
#MondayMorningBach
communion on a gray NYC morning: Sinfonia 4 in an equally gray key of D minor. The weather shall pass - hope all my Twitter friends have a great week! 🎹🎶☕️
#piano
#MondayMotivation
#bach
Here is a lively rendition of
#Bach
’s Gavottes from Cello Suite
#6
, arrangred for
#piano
by Joachim Raff. He takes it up an octave and adds harmony - sounds like a mvt from the Orchestral Suites. Hope you enjoy today’s
#MondayMorningBach
! 🎹🎶🙏
#BachCelloSuites4Piano
"I adopt a purely repetitive method whenever I learn a new piece. I take a page at a time, go over it is often as I need to and don't move on to the next until the first one is under my belt."
Sviatoslav Richter
#TuesdayMotivation
#Sviatoslavrichter
#piano
For some upbeat energy: here is a clip from my FB
#livestream
:
#Chopin
Grand Valse Brilliante. The live audio wasn’t the best but you get the idea - full video on my FB page. 🙏🎶
#piano
J.S.
#Bach
- an indisputable proof of the possibility of life after death - left his body OTD in 1750. He is renewed continuously by thousands of us all over the globe. 🙏🌹