Bach-Siloti Prelude in B minor
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- Siloti's transcription of Bach's deceptively simply B minor organ prelude. Firmly believe anyone can play this no matter what level you're at. 20 mins a day, a pencil and some focus and you'll nail it pretty quickly - the score is here if you fancy trying it: webzoom.freewebs.com/fjgajewsk...
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An amateur might be able to play the notes and rhythms, but it takes an artist with years of technique, skill, and artistry to bring out the dynamics, harmonic tension, and above all voicing. This piece is a wonderful etude on voicing.
I agree an amateur can play this piece, but it takes a master to play this piece with the tone and colors like you have in this video.
I've been playing for 2 years. This took me 10 months to get to a point where I can confidently play it in front of others.
10 years would have been worth it. Well done. Post it??
Lloré con tus entrevistas, Bach te salvó, me gustaría haber sido tu hermano mayor y haberte defendido.
May God bless you, for you gave my poor soul the much needed peace and bliss through you sensational performance.
Thanks for the sheet music download. I can't stop playing it now!
Very Beautiful! thank you!!!
Been playing 2.5 years. This piece I've been learning for 5 months. Another 2 and I think I can actually play it without too many mistakes maybe another year to put the heart into it.
He escuchado muchas versiones de esta obra, están en TH-cam, y puedo decir que ésta de James Rhodes es de las mejores. Una muy adecuada y sensible interpretación. ¡Enhorabuena!
Magnifique
The music is great, it always gives you a fantastic experience to listen it, the meaning of it you determine by your self !!!
This piece is much much harder than it looks. Been playing for 2.5 yrs and on this piece for 4 months.
Mr Rhodes, love your playing, and also for give me some inspiration for my playing, i firmly believe that anyone can play any piece no matter the levels, we only need some focus in our lifes!
James: Siloti was not Ukrainian (in fact, he would have objected very much to being called Ukrainian), he was an ethnic Russian, born to a wealthy Russian family with a large estate outside Kharkov which is now in Ukraine but was then part of Russia; Siloti did not study piano with Tchaikovsky who never taught piano anyway, he studied harmony (composition) with Tchaikovsky, his piano teachers were Nicholas Rubinstein and Franz Liszt.
From 1979 to 1982 I was a piano student of his daughter Kyriena Siloti, a very vigorous woman then in her mid-80s. (She would not, BTW, have been too happy to see you sitting so high at the keyboard, but you manage it pretty well!)
Beautiful piece of music!
Exquisita y delicada interpretación. Too much feelings here, Thanks James.
That's so hauntingly beautiful. It makes me think of the gorgeous but desolate landscapes above the tree line in places like Iceland and northern Canada.
Marie Soullier Iceland has no forests...
Exactly. It's desolate, lacking in trees. A tree line is the general area past which trees will not grow whether thats due to lack of rain, extreme cold, poor soil, etc. Though Icelands lack of trees is probably on account of deforestation rather than latitude.
Partially true. Being a volcanic island, Iceland has very rich soil. Trees can grow very easily there, even if the climate is severe, but deforestation is the main problem there. Now Iceland has under 1% of its surface covered in forest, which is purely insane!
Maravilloso momento:
Cuando el dolor es profundo, continuo y sostenido, el sentimiento engrandecido colma los sentidos , cuanta belleza…
Thanks for the music And for Being yourself... Love your music And your books. I play the piano too And you are such an inspiration!!! You are great James!!
Wonderful played with so much sensibility...love it
Impresionante!!! Congratulations! And many thanks for share this music
Beautiful
Beautiful! Thanks for posting
Well done Sir, this is played soooooo well. Amazing
la musica es maravillosa en todos sus aspectos, me encanta perderme en ella y disfrutar cada nota :)
Thanks James. Inspirational. Bravo.
This just blew me away
Mr.James Rhodes I want say Thank you for so many things first for being James Rhodes you are now ! Your story when ever i listen to it it numbs all pains i have on my life and that I am not the only Artist that have a story like yours and this piece is really nice!! a one of my bests among others you played I listen to it alot! Bach music it wouldn't sound amazing on any other Pianiest fingers like you played it.
Voila ! Mon chapeaux Monsieur Rhodes Merci beaucoup.
Wonderful interpretation! Can't wait to learn this one!
Simply beautiful James. It touches my heart :)
aha! so you're the guy that keeps coming up on soundcloud! bravo, as always. i adore this piece.
Love it! Really beautiful! You've play it like caressin it, you can feel the song not only through the music. Thank you for share it
Amazing 🎹🎶💙🔥🙏🏻
You played this amazingly well!
Hearing something new in your interpretation of both hands which I haven't heard before!
Thank you very much!
thank you for the score and for fine performance best regards
Gorgeous! Definitely a new favourite and a perfect step as I rebuild my right-hand wrist after tendonitis with a Ginastera. Thanks for sharing the score!
Marvelous!
Beautiful. Thanks James! :)
Una interpretación sensible y convincente.
C juste magnifique..
You are a great :)
Es tan maravillosa
Hi, this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard--THANK YOU! I also find the Gluck excerpt lovely in the TEDx talk. Did you get the score from the Richard Schultz transcription, or from the full score of Orfeo ed Euridice itself?
Im your fan man. Your the best!
The Ferdinand Gajewski version referenced seems to have an error in bar 10 - right hand 1st note is an e but I seem to hear a b in Gilels's performances. The e needs an 11+ stretch too.
PRECIOSO
Hey James.
I have followed you for some years and seen most of your videos. Especially your interviews about how late you started playing piano.
But I wonder how well you played before you took the ten years break ? Did you play etudes and Ballades as a boy ?
I am asking because I started very late (as 18 years old) but I am now studying piano on an academy for classical musicians. I am wondering about the possibilities for pianists who begin playing piano late. Obviously one has to deal with technique, but I have seen different piano professors claiming that one has to study seriously at the age of 15-16 otherwise its to late. As I know there has never been a concert pianist who didn't play from child. So when you started again in your late 20's was that the first time you did scales (etudes) ? Or did you fingers already feel shaped on the keys ?
Cheers from Denmark.
Thank you!!!!! :)
Gotta love those MTV-style factoids! Well played. :-)
Inspirational! Definitely going to make this my new project to learn. I have been playing guitar for around 10 years and have dabbled in classical piano but never quite got my head around reading music to a high enough standard to learn any of the pieces I'd really like to. Any tips on getting better at reading?
Anyone know what app that is he's using? Not seen one that turns pages so well
The Best!))
QUE MANOS
Original in E-minor (Bach) ... you need to have "big" hands for Siltoti´s Arrangement ...
Marvelous! Your beautiful interpretation of this piece convinced me that I simply MUST have the score, but, alas, the link you give mischievously offers only an abbreviated version that contains just three pages of music, with none of the beautifully melodic middle and ending. A cruel hoax, indeed.
no no! The score is correct - you must repeat it once from end of bar 20 and the melody in the middle is always there in the left hand thumb (tenor line) if you look or it and bring it out during the repeat :)
Yes, of course, now I see it. I blame my childhood teacher, a stern knuckle-rapper who took a brutally dim view of ever straying from the score as written. ("So, Mr. Know-It-All, you think you're better than Chopin?!") I'll "play" with it. Thanks!!
Lovely. :)
Well. It seems that whenever I see you play, I just cry. Don't know why. It feels like "Oh, THAT'S what that piece is meant to say." The crying is only mildly inconvenient.
Wonderful encouragement! Would love to see others you feel can be learned by "anyone". Some Bach minuets perhaps?
Does that mean that anyone can code up group theoretic mathematical algorithms because I can?
I am having great trouble with the left hand chords. Some of the stretches are too awkward to keep all the notes held down and are all notes supposed to be hit at the same time as the first note of each bar for the right hand?
89Redge Usually yes for the first pass, you need to hit all the notes at the same time on the left hand except at the end of the first pass. And the way the score is written there are a few places where this isn't possible. For these few cases, the right hand can sometimes play the upper note of the left chord, and when you can't, you can lower the upper note to play an alternate note that is still within the harmony.
Thank you Laurent, I know I'm two years late!
Watch Emil Giles and you will see that he rolled some of the chords where it was notated as a stacked chord.
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Que cagamos aquel día
Sin saber de quién era
Ni de qué culo salía...."
Pensamientos evocados
Anónimo
Anyone have sheet music for the left hand chords on the second time through?
Hugo - It's the exactly the same as the first time around but with the emphasis on the RH thumb bringing out a melody and with the upper tune kept in the background (sotto voce.) Hope this helps. I downloaded this sheet music (thanks James) and I play it every morning to start the day.
you sure - I thought it was a transcription of Bach's E minor prelude for keyboard from book 1 of the Well Tempered clavier?
What iPad app are you using?
Jc Grubbs I can't speak for mr. Rhodes, but GoodReader is very useful for sheet music, and generally organizing your files.
Challenge of today
Seriously? An iPad?
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Sounds very similar to Rachmaninoff's Musical moment no 1
Frédéric François Chopin .. hy Chopin , what about Scarlatti ? Does it not sound like a Scarlatti sonata ? Thanks for checking :D
i hear you reading the notes. that is not a good thing.