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Forgive my intrusion, but for me there is no one better than You, not even Yuja Wang, who despite being a technical monster, does not convey to me the emotions that I feel with Valentina. Se...
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myhobbyispiano
Lavia: "My dark henchmen, young hopeless, torn by freedom" Verdi's opera at San Carlo. Conducting the Foundation's Orchestra and Chorus, Nicola Luisotti, in his debut on the podium http://co...
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Rotore
I don't know about you, but Pachelbel, Johann Pachelbel, melts my heart with emotion with the extraordinary Canon in D major. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Pachelbel
Have you ever heard of this performer? She seems very technically skilled to me and certainly proposes her own idea of interpretation. Some of the videos: P.D. Paradisi - Toccata (from the 6...
Who is the composer (and the title) of the following piano sonata that was used in a segment of the famous English show "Top Gear". Occurs: at minute 1:14 and then at minute 2:25 ... the sou...
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Thesimon
Today, March 14, 2012, Pi Day is celebrated all over the world... and it's an English initiative that proposes a day dedicated to this infinite number, for which a song has been dedicated......
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Hello everyone, I've been reading for a long time but have only just subscribed. The reason is that I received a newsletter that seems particularly interesting to me: at the beginning of Mar...
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Hi! I am studying Scarlatti's Sonata in G minor K 450 or L 338, I have a little problem with the thirds that alternate with the trill... if played slowly it goes quite well, if I try to spee...
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Who hasn't heard of Steinbach pianos? They are very famous, and there are many models in Italy... Since my neighbor has one, I had the opportunity to study it very well, both regarding the m...
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Hi! Could you approximately tell me if there are any sonatas or compositions for piano and violin that have easy, medium, and difficult piano parts, and which ones they are? Since I don't ha...
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pianoexpert
Any musician, even a non-professional worthy of the name, loves classical music deeply... and for me, it is this passion that makes us face the great ''problems'' that Mozart, Bach, Chopin,...
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I was greatly scolded by my family when they discovered that I had spoken to you about Romanian music without speaking to you about the piano and without publishing anything about the piano...
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I think about my poor husband who works in a factory and how, in an instant—that is, in a "Save Italy" reform—he saw his working years increased by over 10 years to be entitled to a pension:...
Hello everyone, I am looking for the score of Bellini's famous aria "Ah, non credea mirarti".... If anyone has it, could you please send it to me at dan91093@live.it? Here is a famous perfor...
Romanian folk music is characterized by a huge difference, in rhythms, in meter, and in scales, between the various regions. The same can be said for dance, which is practiced, depending on...
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It seems that the "Romanian gaffe" committed by me in previous posts, which I tried to remedy in the last post, has been forgiven; however, in the course of the work done to recover, I have...
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Born in 1881 in Liveni, near Botoşani, he showed an extraordinary propensity for music from childhood, starting to play the violin at age 4, holding his first concert at 5 and studying compo...
Ciprian Porumbescu was born in 1853 in Şipotele, into a modest family, to Emilia (Porumbescu) and the priest Iraclie Golembiovski: he initially used the surname Golembiovski and then began t...
The Cobza is a plucked string musical instrument of folk origin; widespread in Eastern Europe, it is part of the lute family. It has a curved rim with a narrow opening that creates a charact...
Here I am finally with a little free time and a computer at my disposal, after idling around the Constanta and Techirghiol areas for the usual thermal spa treatments, and after a quick trip...
Hi! I am opening this thread to share opinions on who the great Composers and Pianists/interpreters of the great composers are for us, our favorites, and those we draw inspiration from for o...
