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I selected this hauntingly beautiful piece by Brahms - but I underestimated its difficulty! I had to do a lot of work in voicing and shaping of the lines. The major challenge was to ensure the melody sings while playing all the supporting notes in succession. The notes felt awkward with my hand range and my right thumb tends to bang out the support notes. Character change needs to be more obvio...

Name that Filipino kundiman challenge! Not too bad but can be better. Part of the difficulty lies in the demonstrating the changing themes in each song. Had to practice the polyrhythm cross hands, huge octave jumps and making sure the melody sings all throughout the piece. A toughie to record. Music sheet bought from IG (themusicbookstore). Other Espino recordings: Noturno (based on Catalog na ...

This prelude by Rachmaninoff exudes such exquisite despair. The score is relatively easy to read but tough to voice and direct. The themes keep changing, the dynamic range is broad, and there are middle voices to note of. There are dynamic markings where you need to get from p to f in a span of three measures. Most of all, it is a polyrhythm all throughout! I had to do lots of hands-separate pr...

A piano transcription of Nicanor Abelardo's Bituing Marikit, a Filipino kundiman. This beautiful piano transcription was introduced to me by my piano teacher (Espino works, in general). I found the piece to be technically challenging: LH runs, descending octaves, big LH chords, chromatic runs. This demanded a lot of practice hours and patience (haha). Despite the difficulty, this is definitely ...

Another piece from "A Collection of Piano Favorites" arranged by Jonjon.

Choi Yu Ree (최유리) - Wish (바람) [Hometown Cha Cha Cha, 갯마을차차차 OST] (Hard Version) by MINIBINI Purchased from: www.mymusicsheet.com/jsv1313/46087 My sister liked this a lot so I bought her the music sheet as a birthday gift last 2021. I finally got around finishing the series and learned the music sheet as well.

A hauntingly beautiful nocturne by Chopin. Had to do some work to bring out the melody and to direct it ‘horizontally’. I love the octaves part in the middle section. Very tricky to make the right hand octaves sound legato even with the pedal. The polyrhythms were actually fun to work out part by part. It somewhat fits together eventually. As usual, I found it a challenge to play on the piano/p...

A kundiman piece with a quite annoying left hand. =) RH had to maintain a lyrical and somewhat sorrowful melody with "hagod". LH had to stay calm while moving across the keys (arrrghhh finger 5 on black). Sheet music: imslp.org/wiki/First_Nocturne_(Abelardo,_Nicanor)

A gorgeous lyrical piece by Schubert. At times, I can’t help but close my eyes while practicing this because it is just so lovely. The piece challenged my technique and interpretation abilities: finding the direction of the melody, the change of character, how to transition to the next part, and most of all, getting those inner notes softer than the melody. I realized that playing piano and pia...

A very challenging piece this year! As a listener, I love this sonata! As the performer, this one is a toughie. The first movement is frustrating. The notes are easy to read but the musicality is difficult to achieve. The character changes every a couple of measures - it is quite difficult to execute when played a tempo. In the second movement, I struggled with phrasing the melody and tried to ...

Another one of my mother's most requested songs. Learned this in high school.

I love Rachmaninoff pieces, even though they are difficult to play. My hands have a small range (an octave at most) and playing big powerful chords in succession poses a lot of challenge and stamina. The piece also requires a range of dynamics that I wasn't able to fully execute. The second theme was the most difficult part because it had to sound haunting and lyrical; the left hand arpeggios r...

This is my mother’s most-requested piece of all time (or one of the most requested). I learned this when I was in high school. I think I played it better back then but I didn’t bother making an effort in recording all of my pieces (cassette recorder anyone?). The time, I’ll try to immortalize it here. The very old sheet music was bought by my mother in Platerias, Quiapo. Sheet music source: arc...

Probably my favorite waltz of Chopin...though not my best work :/ Lots of missing notes and there can be better dynamics.

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess)

Francisco Buencamino - Damdamin ("Feelings")

Debussy - Arabesque No. 1

Augusto Espino - Tarantela (based on Pen Pen de Sarapen)

Benji's Theme (Piano) - arranged by JonJon

Augusto Espino - Humoresk (based on Telebong)

Beethoven -Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13,(Grand Sonata Pathétique)

Brahms Intermezzo in A Major - Opus 118, No. 2

Espino - Pamulinawen for Piano (Ilocano Folk Song)

Francisco Buencamino - Harana

Francisco Buencamino - Dalisay

Noturno based on Caturog Na, Nonoy - arranged by Augusto Espino

Love and Devotion Piano, Louis A. Drumheller, Op.52

Debussy - Clair de Lune

Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical in B Minor, Op. 16, No.3