Pianophilia

Chopin's Impromptus in the Paderewski edition :

http://www.mediafire.com/?4p3awm401m4mr28

I'm looking for the nocturnes in the Paderewski edition. Does anyone have them ?

Does anyone have information about Chopin piano Method?
Thank you.
R

worov wrote:Chopin's Impromptus in the Paderewski edition :

http://www.mediafire.com/?4p3awm401m4mr28

I'm looking for the nocturnes in the Paderewski edition. Does anyone have them ?

This is the only one that I have (nms). ILU.

Jacques Loussier used to be highly effective at jazzing up Bach.
Peter Beets now seems to be doing a very similar job with Chopin.
This guy is so cool he just has to be a recycled fridge!
Check out his irresistible take on the Waltz in C sharp minor
Op64 No2, as well as the various links on this YouTube clip:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXE3wyvn-g

Timtin wrote:Jacques Loussier used to be highly effective at jazzing up Bach.
Peter Beets now seems to be doing a very similar job with Chopin.

You should try all the Polish jazz pianists who've been riffing of Chopin since at least the 60s.

Wlodzimierz Nahorny (who also did a Szymanowski album)
Leszek Możdżer
Andrzej Jagodzinski

And then there's the incomparable Eugen Cicero...

Hmm,

Visited the link -
I don't speak Dutch, but I think the meaning of the first comment was clear enough and very passionately expressed.
Was it, however, derogatory or laudatory- of this I was uncertain.

regards,
tobyjj

I don't speak any Dutch either, but it seems as though he's talking about 3/4 time,
somehow turning Dave Brubeck's famous Take Five (5/4 time) into Take Three!

Hmm,

I was referring to the comment which I think probably translates as something like:

"Dude, This is my favourite waltz, but this version = truly f... etc."

Interesting that it is open to so many different interpretations ...

tobyjj

tobyjj wrote:Hmm,

I was referring to the comment which I think probably translates as something like:

"Dude, This is my favourite waltz, but this version = truly f... etc."

Interesting that it is open to so many different interpretations ...

tobyjj

Hi Toby, Timtin,
you are pretty close with your translation, he is firstly congratulating himself on reworking the Waltz number 7 in 5/4 time, 1,2,1,2,3. He then goes on to ask the audience to buy his Cd's as it was a 200km trip with no other gigs to Leeuwarden. There was nothing derogatory in his remarks at all, just praise for himself, "knap gedaan" is " What a clever bit of work"
regards
Brian

arneros wrote:Does anyone have information about Chopin piano Method?
Thank you.
R

It doesn't actually exist as a complete method, as he only sketched a few pages which were bequeathed to C.V. Alkan after Chopin's death.

Jean-Jaques Eigeldinger's book: Chopin as Pianist & Teacher is the best resource into Chopin's teaching from accounts of his pupils and fellow musicians. The Sketch of a Method is included in facsimile and typeset, but mostly consists of a scale in B major and a chromatic scale, with some basic information on placing the hands of the keyboard and maintaining "souplesse". The entire book is a kind of grand treatise on what the method of Chopin would have become had he lived to complete it, and perhaps even surpasses what Chopin would have been capable of writing on his own approach.