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❤❤A very beautiful interpretation

Sounds like the solo piano theme of the great Karl Haas musical adventures program, years ago from Cleveland. This sounds OK to me. Thanks for sharing.

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Love this one

I sure like this!

Very unique/interesting and beautiful playing of this well known piece!

Even though your discussion is very informative, you still took the time to create a great performance! I will be sending students here

Very nice, Arthur! The ending sounds magical -I'm sure Gladys would love it!

Superb!

A terrific Ravel piece for piano teachers to assign students who can already play the Pavane but aren't quite ready for the Sonatine.

I’m just now getting into this kind of music.. I can feel the emotion and element it gives off.. it lets me know that everything is going to be okay

I loved listening to this today. I also enjoy the commentary. Very enlightening!

Very beautiful..

I was lucky enough to study Chamber music and lieder with Shure at his home for several years in the late 70s. He had a profound effect on my playing.

The first piece that i have ever learned, i really love this

Always such a delight to hear you play, Arthur. Doesn't sound like a traditional folk song when you're at the keys. HaHaHappy 2024!

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I have a passion for creativity. In 2001, I founded the Festival for Creative Pianists, a unique online and in-person venue. Complete info -- history/programs/enrolling/donating: www.festivalforcreativepianists.org/

I have a passion for creativity. In 2001, I founded the *Festival for Creative Pianists,* a unique online and in-person venue. Complete info -- history/programs/enrolling/donating: www.festivalforcreativepianists.org/

Yes I was!

We make a great team! So fun, remembering this.

Wauw I thoroughly enjoyed your elaborate and deep study & text on this magnificent Nocturne, Arthur! It makes me urge to make myself a new upload of it, on my Pleyel at home. It's a beautiful piano grand, but as I stated earlier: my room is very very dry, so it's sooooo hard to upload such a dreamy delicate Nocturne with júst the right amount of half- and flutter-pedals. Thanks again for your perfect study on this. (By the way, I always am somewhat surprised to hear that D# in the bass at 5:14, because I know Chopin does not write that D# in his manuscript, or, well, at least not in the manuscript I have a pict of here at home...and you also don't play that D# at the beginning of the piece (but indeed the F# of the manuscript). But as I understand now there are indeed notations of this D# in some still existing autographs? As are this wonderful variations that you play in the recapitulation? And, Arthur, I love the 3/4 // 4/4 measures, and that story! I never knew that! But I do know that the rhytmn-aspects in Chopins pieces are many many times "overlooked" so to speak with pianists, and piano students...as are his phrasings in many, many, many of his pieces, which make the flow of Chopins virtuosic runs, or his climaxes (e.g. the coda of the second Scherzo: Richter (studio recording) plays the phrasing on these "jazzy" chromatic shifting V-chords in that coda superbly!!) so way way more exiting and jubilant! Kindest regards, Simon 👍🏻🎹

I wish I had a teacher like you, Arthur. But, well, what do I know...life is not like that haha, it's complicated, so many factors must "click" just at the right moment. And I do know for sure that due to a variety of reasons my own development as a pianist was not able to grow fluently and in the right order (that is: gradually, at the right age the right pieces) and most of all that my own character, my mind/psyche/body, was not helping either. I think I only want to say, Arthur, especially to myself, seeing me making a comment like that haha!, it's not that simple in life to make this easy "I wish I had"-statements. But seeing you play, seeing you teach, and seeing also your love and admiration of pop music, I for sure know you would've been the perfect teacher for the child Simon I think....to guide that young insecure, that totally-not-good-note-reading child, with his dreamy but mostly afraid and not-selfsecure character to master the difficult aspects of being a pianist. But, well, haha, I know I am now just babbling Arthur...but seeing this video it just was something that came up, and sometimes you can be in that mood... Looking back, and teaching myself a lot now, I know that it's a multi layered, very complex thing, this development of a person, a child, into a broad well educated secure good playing musical sensitive and reliable pianist. In my own lessons as a teacher I know how rare it is, that it's all "working" so to speak. Great playing Arthur, I will never be able to play literature like that, but with growing older I especially admire it more and more, seeing it with others. thanks for the upload, and thanks for reading, this Sunday morning (here, in the Netherlands). (It's a long comment, again 🥹) It's open day, today, at my academy, so I will be now today speak and meet and hoping to find upcoming aspirant and talented new students...usually every year it's a challenge to manage to encounter them, on an open day: many, many youngsters nowadays, somehow, don't know the difference between playing an instrument just "as a hobby" on one hand, and the life-changing-decision of choosing it as your main profession on the other hand....ànd: having the abilities (on all levels) to decide and able te do such a thing... Well, at least that's my observation, in many cases. Still, I really like teaching and talking and meeting them, on a day like this. Kindest regards, wish you well ! Simon 🎹

How nice Arthur! Also very nice because coincidentally I do have, for already some years now, a duo with a flute player (flute, alto, piccolo) and we sometimes play just low profile low scale small concerts, with pieces from Piazolla to Gershwin, Pixinguinha to Satie, and (simple) arrangements from Chopin to Gluck. And all kind of other things in between. We're not that much at all on TH-cam (except some little things in our practice-room, and "America" by Bernstein, during a pupils-evening). I hope to upload maybe one day something more while we're playing live. By the way, speaking about "America", I just uploaded a live take from a few years ago where I play the song of the same name by S & G. The sound comes directly from the mixing board, unfortunately, so very very dry, no surrounding noise and acoustics at all, but still I am so curious about what you think of it. Being such a S&G admirer! I worked hard on that specific arrangement, I remember it took me some time to incorporate at least some of the intrinsic specific details of the original studio recording by Simon & Garfunkel. For example, the very "peculiar scale" from the climax (which I play twice, as you can hear, at the beginning, and at the end): I made that up myself, that scale, because of the harmony that Art Garfunkel sings over the "for America"-line in the last phrase at the end of the song. Peculiar, in two ways: first, that "#8"- note (D#) he sings on "...ri..." of "America", and second, the fact that they don't use that peculiar note while playing it live (Central Park). See there the reason why I play that peculiar scale all the way over the piano in the intro and the end (in fact, of course, it's "just" the A Lydian scale on a D vamp in the bass). I remember I did have a rather elaborate discussion (about "that D#" note that Garfunkel sings on that spot) with a theory teacher (classical pianist, and very good friend of mine :-)). But I now only name one aspect of this wonderful song: also the peculiar switch of dominant and Maj7 in the accompaniment (in my arr: in the tenor-register during the intro of the first verse), or the meandering Hammond that's swirling around during the song, or the bluesy clarinet (or which instrument is it?) halfway the song, and of course the exhuberant climax. Well, in case you've got some time, I would love to hear your opinion! Kindest regards, greetings again from The Netherlands, Simon 🎹

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What a nice present! You had me smiling the whole time. 😂 I will need to get myself a new Jeegeta 👒. The kiddos sure seemed to love it.

Beautiful Arthur ! 🎹👍🏻🎹

Children's laughter is the best music of all!!! hahaha!

Great combination! Thanks for sharing!

Delightful!

this is so cool, and well done! thanks for sharing

BRAVO!! Delightful variants and cadenzas!

Delightful to the MAX! And so very creative.

Very musical and sensitive performances! A perhaps funny thing: I played Op.19 in a masterclass with Leonard Shure, in 1985-6. It was in the same hall. Perhaps the same piano even. I remember at the time wondering how familiar Mr. Shure would have been with Schönberg's idiom (given that his associations are a bit more with the 1st Viennese School rather than the 2nd). Now I have at least a partial answer. :-)

Arthur, I was raised in east Woburn, I didn’t know there was a piano this fine in Woburn, (joking aside) the Falcone shop was not far from my home - they are fine pianos. Thanks for posting this recording- beautifully played as usual.

Thank you for this, so many memories of his incredible teaching came flooding back.

Never see you before but you poped up in my recomended and I just wanted to say keep up the good work👍

WoW that was very good Arthur! 👍🏻🎹 such a beautiful, and also such a difficult !, Etude. It was one of my "first difficult Chopin pieces" I tried to master, long ago. Tried, because unfortunately I never managed to do it properly 😳: especially that superdifficult passage of 6th's in both hands I just could not get it done without mistakes. Maybe, "older and wiser" now, I would have to try again, and gather the guts (so to speak) to do it again. Your timing, phrasing, and tempo of especially that super difficult middle part inspired me to, maybe ?, try it myself again, some day... Thanks! Greetings again from far away The Netherlands, Simon

Lovely!!

That’s awesome!! This video deserves more views 😅

Magnificent. Great feel and touch!!

And your interpretation is exquisite.

Obvioulsly, Beethoven was also deeply influenced by George Gershwin while writing the 3d variation of his OP.111. The fact that GG was born some 71 years after the death of LvB is only an insignificant prosaic detail.

Oh Ravel. You freak out my imagination every time. And Arthur, you bring out the most exquisite moments. Respectful, awesome liberties. Thank you, both of you!

Thanks for uploading this! These are two different interpretations, each good in their own way. I'm curious - how was Prokofiev 7 on a piano with such a heavy action? One of our annual local music competitions uses a Yamaha baby grand with the heaviest, most unpredictable key presses I have personally experienced in a piano - playing Beethoven's Pathétique, it was incredibly difficult for me to get that leggiero touch. I can only imagine what a piano that causes one to literally bleed must feel like to play on.

Thank you for this wonderful musical moment with a work by one of my 5 favorite composers

I thoroughly enjoyed the program. Great performances by both Priscilla and her accum panyist. Both played with such emotion and feeling that it was a joy to be listening. Great job by both players!!