¡Felicitaciones! Por difundir esta maravillosa música. Extraordinaria y poco común. Le da parecido a los preludios de Claude Debussy. ¡Gracias! Saludos desde México.
I don't know why, but this piano Zempléni is playing on is special, it brings lots of colors to life and its bass really roars like at 11:27 . Absolutely stunning bass
I don't think it's the piano in particular, but the recording. The higher harmonics aren't really audible which leaves the lower harmonics being much more noticeable. This creates a "warm" sound and explains why the bass is more pronounced.
The piano jused in this recording actually goes at least several notes below the low A, the usual lowest note on the piano (although not at the point cited, at 11:27). Kodaly's music uses these low notes, as you will see if you examine the score carefully in the some of the lowest passages. I think this use of those extreme low notes, so seldom heard, because so few pianos include them and so few composers write those notes into their music, may well contribute to the impression that the bass is very impressive in this recording. The final chord in the last piece of the Op. 3 set of 9 pieces ends with an extreme bass C#, a minor 6th below the A which is the usual lowest note. I think this is getting near the lowest limit of human hearing ability, and one might feel such a note more than hear it. I don't think I've heard a performance of that piece which actually uses that low C#, but Zempleni has recorded those 9 pieces, too, which can be found on a video of Kodaly's complete piano music, and it might be interesting to go there and see if he uses that low C# there. It does seem that Kodaly, alone amongst all composers I know of, habitually wrote for a piano that included those very low notes. While it is gratifying to see composers use such notes, because there's no doubt they can be very effective and impressive, it does also come with the severe drawback of making proper performance of those passages possible on only a tiny proportion of all pianos. For that reason, I would not myself compose music that requires those low notes - or if I did on rare occasions, I would make sure to provide an "ossia" version of the passage that could be done on the 99.9 percent of "ordinary" pianos.
¡Felicitaciones! Por difundir esta maravillosa música. Extraordinaria y poco común. Le da parecido a los preludios de Claude Debussy. ¡Gracias! Saludos desde México.
¡Gracias por su comentario!
Masterful story telling. Speaks directly to the soul. Sad what technology has done to the arts in this modern zombie world.
학교종이 땡땡땡 어서모이자~~~
선생님이 우리를 기다리신다~~~
땡땡땡~~~
선생님의 간절함이 묻어나는 곡인듯 합니다
Verkar exciting to listen to Kodalys marvellous piano Musik.
Very!!
I don't know why, but this piano Zempléni is playing on is special, it brings lots of colors to life and its bass really roars like at 11:27 . Absolutely stunning bass
I don't think it's the piano in particular, but the recording. The higher harmonics aren't really audible which leaves the lower harmonics being much more noticeable. This creates a "warm" sound and explains why the bass is more pronounced.
The piano jused in this recording actually goes at least several notes below the low A, the usual lowest note on the piano (although not at the point cited, at 11:27). Kodaly's music uses these low notes, as you will see if you examine the score carefully in the some of the lowest passages. I think this use of those extreme low notes, so seldom heard, because so few pianos include them and so few composers write those notes into their music, may well contribute to the impression that the bass is very impressive in this recording.
The final chord in the last piece of the Op. 3 set of 9 pieces ends with an extreme bass C#, a minor 6th below the A which is the usual lowest note. I think this is getting near the lowest limit of human hearing ability, and one might feel such a note more than hear it.
I don't think I've heard a performance of that piece which actually uses that low C#, but Zempleni has recorded those 9 pieces, too, which can be found on a video of Kodaly's complete piano music, and it might be interesting to go there and see if he uses that low C# there.
It does seem that Kodaly, alone amongst all composers I know of, habitually wrote for a piano that included those very low notes. While it is gratifying to see composers use such notes, because there's no doubt they can be very effective and impressive, it does also come with the severe drawback of making proper performance of those passages possible on only a tiny proportion of all pianos. For that reason, I would not myself compose music that requires those low notes - or if I did on rare occasions, I would make sure to provide an "ossia" version of the passage that could be done on the 99.9 percent of "ordinary" pianos.
Where can I get the sheet music for this music? Did not find it on IMSLP
Sorry for the late response! You can find the sheet music on IMSLP here: tinyurl.com/KodalyOp11
This link takes you to IMSLP.
At some point ~ 7:00, it looks like a rachmaninov prelude..