My First Concert

I had never heard these recordings. Compliments.. playing like this at 16 years old!!!! My judgment and my compliments go beyond the friendship that binds us!!! Well done...... Who knows how you will play that difficult ballad at your diploma!!!!! It will be a high grade!!!!! You will certainly approach some passages with greater maturity and control. Two evenings ago Baremboin was on television on Rai 3 with Fazio and among the many great things he said, there is one phrase I would like to highlight: "One cannot play without passion and without control. Passion must always be under control and everything that falls under the rules cannot exist without passion". A musician's training must take these two elements into account and the great Director-Pianist wanted to emphasize this. One must always be "in the music" "with the brain, with the heart and with the fingers (W.A. Mozart)" and you have demonstrated this since a tender age! Well done. We will force you, after your diploma, to give us a concert. ......The friends of www.pianoconcerto.it are all already invited!!!!!

Affectionate greetings

Paolo

pianoexpert wrote:

I had never heard these recordings. Compliments.. playing like this at 16 years old!!!! My judgment and my compliments go beyond the friendship that binds us!!! Well done...... Who knows how you will play that difficult ballad at your diploma!!!!! It will be a high grade!!!!! You will certainly face some passages with greater maturity and control. Two evenings ago Baremboin was on television on Rai 3 with Fazio and among the many great things he said, I would like to highlight one phrase: "One cannot play without passion and without control. Passion must always be under control and everything that falls under the rules cannot exist without passion". The training of a musician must take these two elements into account and the great Director - Pianist wanted to emphasize this. One must always be "in the music" " with the brain, with the heart and with the fingers (W.A. Mozart)" and you have demonstrated it since an early age! Well. We will force you, after your diploma, to give us a concert. ......The friends of www.pianoconcerto.it are all already invited!!!!!

Affectionate greetings

Paolo

I also join the compliments of pianoexpert... we await this great event with trepidation!!

Best regards thesimon and pianoexpert

saverio

Thank you, you are far too kind with your compliments... It is wonderful for me to have these recordings because, besides reliving beautiful moments of my life, I can see how my musical thought has matured over the years. Especially in the Ballade, beyond the technical passages that I can now tackle with greater confidence given my technical maturation, the judgment falls mainly on the interpretation since, it is a fact, at 16 one is not mature enough to tackle the more mature Chopin, excuse the pun. However, it is good to 'break your face' even when young; this was my first concert, but I had already broken my face several times with competitions and recitals. Playing in public can only do good, both at a pianistic and a character level; it puts you in a position to face life differently, not by hiding, but often by pulling yourself out of situations that are sometimes embarrassing or heavy because you manage to be more yourself. As far as pieces like the Ballade are concerned, when one is young, one can play in two ways: the first is imitating other performers (which results in a good performance), the second is with your own interpretation, which often produces a wrong result. In any case, I prefer the second to the first. It's true, with the first you produce a great result, but besides it not being your own creation, you don't live the music because your thought is not directed toward the music you are playing, but toward the imitation of what you heard on a record. The second, even if wrong or, if we want to use a more adequate and elegant term, immature, is still part of you and your age. In my opinion, this is the reason why many child prodigies make a name for themselves when young but disappear in maturity. If I have the voice and sing like Elvis Presley, I will always be his copy and will never be a singer on top of the world. For this, I must also thank my teacher, whose name is Fabio Salustri and who shouldn't delay in registering here on the forum, because despite having guided me (and continuing to guide me for my diploma) and giving me interpretative advice, he has always left me free, especially in Chopin, to choose my own path. In many years of study, there have been differences of opinion, but nothing was ever imposed on me; if anything, we talked about it and chose what was musically most appropriate within a particular passage.

Who knows if this post isn't the pretext to get Aunt Marina to register here on the forum and hear her opinion too? What do you say, Paolo?

(Reading this sentence, I can already see Aunt Marina's inquisitorial phone call! 😕 eheheheh)

Greetings to all

Wonderful Simone, you are a monster of skill!!!! 😉

As it happens, regarding the Nocturne Op.9 n°2, just these days I bought the single sheet music because I would like to study it, or at least I'll try! 😕

Davide

Thank you for the compliments...

The Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 is wonderful, one of the most beautiful in my opinion, even if it is one of the most played and well-known.

A nocturne that, in my opinion, has no rivals is the Posthumous Op. The I played it at a recital and I should have the audio file somewhere on my PC; if I find it, I will post it...

Here it is...

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/condivisione/chopinoppost.mp3

Simone, compliments indeed!

In particular, I also like the Nocturne op. 9 no. 2... your performance of the piece is, in my opinion, brilliant, not excessively forced (as I have even heard professional pianists do... 😕) and above all... "Chopinized" 😉! In my opinion, if the genius could listen to you, he would be proud, satisfied, and happy.

as far as the technical aspect is concerned, I really like the trills, scales, and embellishments in general of the piece: they are performed in a free, light, elegant, and "sentimental" way (it's not for nothing that Chopin is "the Pianist of sentiment"...)

I wish you to continue like this, and maybe improve even more!

Bye!!

Francesco 1797

The nocturne is excellent!!! The touch is very sweet and the romantic vision of the piece is very personal. Even if it doesn't fall within modern Chopin interpretation philology... we don't care at all!!! everything is coherent and justified, so even the gentle fluctuations of tempo, and not just that, become right and particularly interesting. Compliments on the sound.

Yes, yes, the nocturne was spectacular!

No one said it, but I believe that to make you play it like that at 16 years old, your teacher did an exceptional job. I believe they made you understand it, and love it.

So ... I was looking forward to those little imperfections that were there! Envy is a bad thing! 😕😉 ;)

Congratulations 😉

How envious I am if I knew how to play like that, very good!! Simone

Giovanni

How I envy you if I could play like that, very good!! Simone Giovanni

Eh, tell that to someone else Giovanni... 😆