mephisto 1

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a bit sloppy, i know, but it’s a work in progress

i am too lazy to record it again

maybe in a couple of weeks i’ll do it agian.

Rezpectable…

IS that on an electric keyboard?

sounds like an upright, you can hear that it isn’t electric - slightly out of tune and percussive

hey, faulty, good job, its a difficult piece, thanks for posting it, no matter how sloppy a rec is, we should be posting these for the sake of overcoming this monopoly.

it’s a new mason & hamlin grand

HAHAHAH FUCK

da a bit mo dan sheeyat recordin quality
n a bit rezpec yo playin too

you definitely mic’d it too close to the piano

try farther away, less of the hammer sound and percussiveness

thanks for the advice

i’ll try some new mic positions and record it again

i’ll also practice mo so i don’t fuck things up

let me ask you this:

if you were to choose one place that needs to be [color=red]faster, which would it be?

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This is the benchmark meph rec

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the part with left hand E octaves and descending right hand F minor arpeggios followed by the gliss

That part should be almost an accelerando downwards

really, the whole piece could be a tad faster, but just give it some air if this is your first time learning it, and relearn it a second time, perform it live, etc.

This is how to get ridiculously fast at a Liszt piece.

who is it

it sounds kind of similar to Sultinov

hmmmm if he breaks a string, i’ll know

excellent rec

still prefer Ashk but this is so damned good

hahaha

a legendary rec

who is it?

Well fuck. I hoped you knew…I dl’ed it of da Classical Archives site a while back when was a membah and since then the pianist is gone and his name was removed from the site, I think it started with a Y and he was a random Russian mofo, but great fucking rec eh?

yeah, i’m so impressed with that

shit, I probably would know the name if you said it too,

I used to browse that site a lot.

I’ll give you a couple…
2:29-2:32: I’m used to hearing that (and parallel parts) significantly faster.
11:22: This section a lot of people play around your speed, but I personally prefer it much faster. This is one reason why I love Ashkenazy’s recording, not only is it musical, but he executes this section EXACTLY as I want it (and I love this section).

In the middle lyrical section, I don’t like the resonance on the little fast part in between the variations. Maybe don’t pedal that section? Also, in the appearance of this section in the development, I don’t like the pedal either. That fast, unpedaled line should lead perfectly into the accompanying LH part. Again, I point to the Ashkenazy recording; he does this flawlessly.

Overall, though, very good job. You basically have the piece down technically and musically it’s getting there. I really like the section that starts around 11:00 and I like the lack of pedal; some pianists make it too vague sounding. This piece is a big personal goal of mine and I’m not even close right now, but you’re doing pretty well.

thanks for taking the time to listen and comment

i’m not sure which parts you’re talking about in the middle section, though

No problem. 7:28 is a time when it comes in on your recording.