Simone Renzi plays Mozart - Piano Concerto K. 488

Simone, we're not there yet... I feel like there are quite a few indecisions and some errors here and there; if you send it to me, I'll clean it up a bit

Very good!!!

Just one word... WONDERFUL!

Some time ago, I asked on this forum if there was a transcription for solo piano; later I found one online (homemade stuff), but I must say that without the orchestrated part it just doesn't do it justice.

Thank you Simone for the gift you gave us

GOODNESS! This alone might be enough... An interpretation easily comparable to those of the great names of international pianism. Congratulations!

TheSimon wrote:

I started studying this concerto starting from the adagio... I spent a lot of time "directing" it in post-production. I don't want to babble, but I think this is truly worth listening to. 

By stretching the orchestra, the bass suffered and I had to add reverb to the orchestra to mix the digital artifacts. I also worked a lot on the piano sound. In short, a week to do this adagio which can practically be read at sight. However, things done well require time...

 

I hope you like it. 

 

 

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/condivisione/K488-IImov.mp3

It is certainly a very intense interpretation, I would say romantic, very close to current tastes.

What does "stretching" the orchestra mean?

Huge compliments!!! An interpretation of great artistic depth. The sound is also excellent.

X Pink

Stretching means elongation, meaning that the tempo of the orchestral audio track has been changed. It was probably either too fast or too slow for Simone's tastes, so by doing this he bent it to his needs, and it seems to me that the chosen tempo was selected very well.

But what about the other two movements?

I'm working on it

Open content (youtube)

Great! let's wait for the rest

Decidedly very, very beautiful.....I would love to be able to do it too!! Who knows, in another life

In this concert, I am putting in all my head, all my heart, all my soul and all my knowledge. I hope to please you with this first movement. I am missing the third (work in progress).

I have deliberately expanded the dynamic range. In classical music, nonsense has no place.

What can I say? You can feel that you are putting your soul into it...

- Masterful interpretation

- Extremely high level of piano technique: precise and clean

- Excellent sound

- Remarkable dynamic range

It feels like listening to a record by the greats from back in the day. Congratulations and thank you for this gift!

Perfect Simò.

Your commitment and skill on this work truly deserve a big round of applause :Applause:

Very good! I like it!

fantastic!!! what precision!!! compliments!

Very, very beautiful Simone. I don't know if you have listened on YouTube to Horowitz's recording with the orchestra. The quality of this one seems even better to me. Especially the choice of tempos. I have heard very slow performances of this concerto; Horowitz's is perhaps too fast, yours seems to me at a more than right tempo, where you have detail without sacrificing cantability. Technically it seems perfect to me, you have excellent control despite a digital keyboard that I imagine limits you.

It's a shame, a shame that then the podium is always taken by half-measures and gifted, promising kids like you are destined to settle for some other job that does not gratify them. You should make music and occupy the place that belongs to you by right... It is truly a waste!

I thank you Stefano, and thanks also to the others for your kind words.

Yes, I know Horowitz's interpretation very well. You are obviously talking about the one he performed in the video in the recording studio, accompanied by his wife and a young man who turned the pages of the score for him...

Let's just say that Horowitz is not the point of reference for Mozart, but there are interesting things in that video, both regarding the interpretation they wanted to give to the concerto and regarding the purely technical aspect. Orchestras are still recorded this way; nothing has changed, so it can be interesting to observe the modus operandi. In the full version of the video, there is even a point where from the control room they play the buzzer due to an obvious error by Horowitz... In reality, there would be many others, and it is desirable to try to repeat them on these occasions. However, "on the spot" recordings, as I have also said in other contexts, have their charm, so a few slips are welcome; they aren't important. In my opinion, the tempo is also a bit too sustained. I have also heard much slower interpretations, but I don't really see Mozart there.

Regarding work, I tell you that "those who praise themselves talk nonsense" (chi si loda si sbroda), as we say here in Rome; there are people much more prepared than me since, due to work problems, I am always forced to play for a few hours as soon as I get back from work and after dinner, sacrificing rest and working late hours, and thus I cannot dedicate myself to music full-time as I would like. I always promise myself to go up home at a decent hour to rest, but in the end passion wins and here I am still down here at midnight. I have just finished studying, or rather, my eyes are asking to close.

Certainly, however, as you well say, there are also people who hold certain positions and are worth nothing (valgono come una cicca spenta). I am almost resigned by now... The world should move forward with meritocracy, but here everything works the opposite way. Look at Razzi... If I were a company administrator, I wouldn't even trust him to tighten two bolts, yet there he is giving his vote and proposing laws in the name of Italians...

In short, the world should be guided by logic, while here everything is illogical!

It's been a few days since I last logged on due to commitments.

You're hitting an open door. Better not talk about it.

Turning back to music.... But what about the third movement?