Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
597 followers · 1116 posts · Server octodon.socialBefore that, I was doing a new one every *day*. (Then I got a job.) Full YouTube playlist for #dailypiano here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bApE_Wy_Wro&list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R&index=1 @classicalmusic
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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@abhayakara Glad you like! I did a bunch more Alkan miniatures during my #dailypiano project earlier this year. Maybe there's more stuff to your taste in this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
561 followers · 1076 posts · Server octodon.socialFor this week’s #weeklypiano, we return to the #dailypiano well for another #Grieg Lyric Piece. This one’s called “Christmas Eve.”
Just kidding, it’s “Elegi”. The night-before-Christmas vibes are pretty strong, though.
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
465 followers · 1042 posts · Server octodon.socialOne of my many favorites from months of #dailypiano: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108976471950305717
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
344 followers · 1030 posts · Server octodon.social@deborahh happy to hear it did that for you. It slows me wayyyy down too, along with a bunch of others from the #dailypiano project.
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Welcome to #weeklypiano! I have ideas for how it can improve on what I did as #dailypiano. For the moment it’s the same, just less often.
After my first week of work in rather a long time, I’m ready to come up for air. Here’s one of MacDowell’s. https://youtu.be/tlKy6bfEz8o
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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After nearly 6 music-hours (and 5 calendar-months), this 127th #pianominiature marks the end of my #dailypiano project.
My regular music-sharing will continue, if that's any consolation. In case it's not, here's Bortkiewicz's Consolation, Op. 17 #4:
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Here’s a #Bortkiewicz Prelude (Op. 66 #3) I heard for the first time an hour ago. That’s been the very essence of #dailypiano. Also an ideal prelude to the next phase of this music-making project, which will look — and, with luck, sound — quite different.
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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To close the Op. 54 Marionetten, Bortkiewicz gives us Kasperl-Harlekin (or “Punch-Harlequin” in English, my sheets say, or “Guignol” en français). In this set, there’s a correlation — but I don’t think causation — between sounds-like-a-marionette and uses-whole-tone-scale.
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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The next-to-last of the #Bortkiewicz Op. 54 Marionetten is #8, Teddybär (“Teddy Bear”).
Final Marionette tomorrow, a couple more Bortkiewicz pieces over the weekend, and then on to the next phase of this project. #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #romanticism #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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I’m mildly musically offended by Bortkiewicz’s Marionetten Op. 54 #7, Der Chineser (~“The Chinese Man”), on two counts:
1. Whole-tone scales suggest many things, none of them Chinese
2. This one really evokes a marionette, which leaves me newly disappointed in the others; hmph
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 #6, Marquise, purportedly means “Marchioness”. That is not any sort of English — if indeed it is any at all — up with which I’ve previously had to put. The #pianominiature is scarcely longer than its title, though, and does make sense to my ears. #dailypiano #pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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No new #dailypiano music from me today. Instead I got to attend a recital for the first time since we all began wandering the desert. I finally recognized how parched I’d been upon taking my fill of @jeremydenk doing Beethoven Op. 109. Whatever’s going on there, I’m needing more.
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Many pieces of Western art music are inspired by or drawn directly from the nomadic itinerant people who call themselves Romani. Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 #5, Zigeuner (“Gypsy”), is no less problematically titled, but it might be the shortest of them all. #dailypiano #pianominiatures
Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, if I had more time, I would have played shorter notes. Lots more staccato called for (and notated). #Bortkiewicz Marionetten Op. 54 #4, Tirolerin (~“Tyrolean Lady”). #bortkevych #pianominiatures
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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The marionettes from Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 are apparently each representing a nation and/or culture, so let’s expect some of the names to have aged poorly. For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, #3 is relatively okay: Spanierin (~“Spanish Lady”).
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Next in the #Bortkiewicz Op. 54 Marionetten is #2, Der Kosak (“The Cossack”). #pianomusic #dailypiano #pianominiatures #pianominiature #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkevych
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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I know, I know, it’s already been a few #dailypiano weeks of #Bortkiewicz. But I keep finding lovely sets of #pianominiatures to get into. Let’s get into another: the Op. 54 Marionetten, starting with Russisches Bauernmädchen (“Russian Peasant Girl”). #pianomusic #bortkevych
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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We’ve heard Bortkiewicz’s setting of Andersen’s Child in the Grave. Now, to close Op. 39, we hear his Der Tod der Mutter (“Death of the Mother”) from Tolstoy’s Childhood. Listen for these earlier themes:
0:00 Natalia
0:48 Grischa
1:38 Maman
2:22 Grischa
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Amitai Schleier · @schmonz
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Hallo und herzlich willkommen bei «Vielleicht erste Liebe»! Unser Kandidat heute kommt aus #Bortkiewicz Op. 39 #10. Ist es nicht oder ist es doch?
[alle zusammen] VIELLEICHT!
Genau, lass uns spielen!
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