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ATTENTION TALENTED AMATEUR PIANISTS! Sign up for the first ever BOSTON INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FOR OUTSTANDING AMATEURS,
August 9-12th 2001, Boston Massachusetts http://www.bostonpianoamateurs.org
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This is a beautiful concerto by Rachmaninoff composed when he was a teenager. It is not played as much as the 2nd and 3rd but deservesto be. I played this in 1971 with the HarrowYouth Orchestra in England. Here is an excerpt from the 1st movement. It is a MIDIrecording with real time piano solo partplayed on a Yamaha Clavinova and synthesizedorchestra, played through a Roland JV1080. It sounds quite realistic. I hope to completethe whole movement during the next few months.It has a very dramatic beginning. The cadenzaat the end of the movement is one of the mostpowerful of all. |
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Here is a beautiful song by Rachmaninoff, thefamous "Vocalise". It is a song without words. This performance uses a synthesized soprano choir patch from a Roland JV1080 with real timepiano accompaniment. |
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Liszt's Transcendental Etude "Mazeppa" was inspired by a poem by Victor Hugo describinga medieval form of punishment in which aperson is tied to a horse which is made to gallop. At the end of the piece just when you think the horse has fallen down andis about to die from exhaustion, he suddenly gets up and starts galloping again! It is avery exciting and picturesque piece, full of fast octaves and virtuoso playing. Liszt also made an orchestral version of this pieceas one of his Symphonic Poems. |
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