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Ah, I was delighted to find this - it has made me so happy. What a fabulous composition, full of your personality and invention. The central variations are beautiful. Fingers crossed (perhaps literally!) this gets the attention of other pianists. It would be a great encore. I think I’d especially like to hear Hamelin play it.

Hi David, this is so beautiful! From your student Kelvin of Homerton College, Cambridge (whom you taught 20+ years ago) 🙂

Having just listened to the original piece, at first I didn't think it 'worked' on the piano, but so skilful is your arrangement (more than a 'transcription', surely) and so expressive your playing, David, that I was soon drawn in and, given the dearth of good solo piano music by Tchaikovsky, this fully deserves a place in the concert repertoire alongside, say, Brahms's Handel Variations and Rachmaninoff's Chopin Variations. A tour de force. Bravo!

Amazing piece. Actually amazing. ❤

bellissima trascrizione... controllo british

Keep working hard king 👑

Ah this is in my College!

very nice, it makes me craving a carbon sandwich

Love the use of l'homme armé as the basis for the last movement!! It makes me wonder-- does this piece have a programme?

Briljant.

A very underwatched video! Incredible!

Beautiful David, lovely phrasing!

Magnificent !

Beautiful, David. The preservation of a very precious moment in time.

Many thanks David. Very beautifully played. Thanks so much for sharing with us. X

I'll be honest here; I've been regularly scouring the web for performances by Federico Gad Crema since I first heard him (via TH-cam) at the Chopin Competition. How I never heard this before today is beyond me! What a beautiful piece, Mr. Earl, and a wonderful marriage of composition and pianist: your exquisite and poignant piece, complemented by Gad Crema's rich-tone and honest, sensitive interpretation, is inspiring and Heavenly indeed. What a pleasure to hear this!

Lovely pieces, most beautifully played - thank you, David!

Hello David, These scenes are beautifully evocative with such a wide range of emotion and of course superbly performed. Thank you for this wonderful music.

Superb David. It transported me to a place full of light and beauty, lyrical and reflective, pushing out into the spiritual darkness and illuminating the way with sure-footed creativity. It's the kind of music to instill inward peace. I loved it.

👏👏👏

What an amazing composition!

Very beautiful playing

What a orchestration, David! The harmony is interesting and so impressive!

Himmel, der Flügel muss gestimmt werden!

Reminds me of Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight' th-cam.com/video/xC68NtEmAcc/w-d-xo.html

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Beautiful sound and playing. Interesting feel. Top quality on all counts.

Who else is here for P'tang Yang kipperbang music ?

Some impressive sight-reading; and lovely music, of course. Well done, all!

These are lovely!

my fav recording out of all

A fabulous and cheerful variation of the ,vlooienmars, as we say in Dutch bringing back a lot of memories. Just amazing!

Schumann indeed does come to mind when listening to this pieces (and Rachmaninoff of course). Maybe Earl is consciously referring to Kinderszenen? Although I'd say this sounds to me more along the lines of Novelettes.... Whichever way, this is a very interesting and evocative album.

I wonder when a CD boxset of Earl's piano music is coming out... There's incredibly powerful piano writing and playing here, as in the Chopsticks Var, the Mandalas Suite and South African Childhood.

Beautiful and extremely persuasive

Lovely. I don't know what the title refers to (if anything) but this is a tender, meditative piece that begins quietly, lulling you into a reflective mood, then swells into something full-throated, something that has a melody but evades it at the same time, giving it a slightly unsettling quality, and then the piece subsides into something uncertain, a falling away into near silence - leaving me at least feeling I'd been listening to a musical poem. Thank you David. And congratulations to Frederico for performing it with such sensitivity and feeling.

David, this was a beautiful performance of your work. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing!

Marvellous! Thank you for sharing this :)

👏👏👍

So enjoyed watching you turn and twist the very fist notes I learnt on a piano into a brilliant composition - well done and awesome my dearest friend!! Much love j

Never thought 'Chopstix' could be a masterpiece!

Wonderful to hear. How you remember, indeed imagine, all those notes.

Ha! This idea reminds me of the story of Beethoven and Diabelli’s theme. The invention is fabulous. Congratulations!

Pity nobody thunk to tune the paino; makes it all extra tiring.

Just discovered this composer and piece. It's made my day. The lento is unforgettable.

Wundervoll...!

Oops! My previous comment was about Darshanas, not this concerto. Hadn't realised the next programme had come up.

An impressively thoughtful, even sombre piece, with lyrical and tender moments. At times it feels its way tentatively into what might be termed mystical passages. It has the drive and melodic fluency which one has come to associate with much of David's music, with a fugitive air of mystery just below its surface. A meditative piece, one to listen to in that mood or to induce it.

I had the privilege of turning pages for David at an early performance of this work ... which meant that I was unable to listen to it properly! Now, having listened to it in this marvellous performance (what a fabulous pianist David is!), I can safely say that it is David's masterpiece for piano. The Third Suite was wonderful, but this goes futher and shows that, at 66 (he won't thank me for mentioning that!), David is far from finished as a composer. In fact, perhaps only now is he really finding his voice and writing truly original, unique, memorable, affecting and lasting music. Bravo, David!