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Chopin-Godowsky Etudes David Stanhope
Добавлен 11 ноя 2014
Godowsky Sonata in E Minor orchestration
This is one of the most extraordinary and beautiful pieces of romantic piano music I know. My orchestration might bring it to a wider audience. See notes in video (freeze screen).
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Toddler's Fanfare
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Here's another something which might put a smile on your face if you are having a bad day. A Toddler's Fanfare featuring two piccolos.
LITTLE RIPPER March
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Here's something completely different which might put a smile on your face if you are having a bad day. The Little Ripper March is my most popular piece for concert band, especially in the USA. But this is the orchestral version, which is never played!
Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto Stanhope
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Ist Mvt: 00:00 2nd Mvt: 16:00 3rd Mvt: 26:58 This may be the fastest Rach 3 on youtube. Performed in 1978, it was the first concerto I ever played (not my idea, but my teacher thought I had the technique for it). I remember being terrified that I would have a memory lapse and therefore played quite a lot of it too fast, especially some of the cadenzas. Whatever its merits, I upload it as part o...
Let's Dance Gay in Green Meadow
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This brilliant little duet by Grainger (in 1943) is here performed by David Bollard and myself at a concert given in 1981. There is some controversy about the metronome mark in the published music, which is not present in the manuscript. Although marked "Fast" the metronome mark is certainly not fast. The editor (Benjamin Britten) suggested a speed after hearing a home performance given "by Gra...
Beethoven-Liszt 2nd Symphony
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Ist Mvt: 00:00 2nd Mvt: 12:08 3rd Mvt: 23:00 4th Mvt: 26:25 Another old ABC studio recording of mine from the mid-80s that I have managed to transfer from a cassette. At that time in Australia, the ABC rarely allowed any editing, so each of the movements is a single take. Hence there are a few smudges in the playing, and the tape (for which I own the rights) is not of high quality! But the perf...
Beethoven-Liszt 1st Symphony
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Ist Mvt: 00:00 2nd Mvt: 8:30 3rd Mvt: 16:19 4th Mvt: 19:36 This is an old ABC studio recording of mine from the mid-80s that I have managed to transfer from a cassette. At that time in Australia, the ABC rarely allowed any editing, so each of the movements is a single take. Hence there are a few smudges in the playing, and the tape (for which I own the rights) is not of high quality! But the pe...
Percy Grainger When the World Was Young orchestration
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Here is my orchestration of a hardly known piece by Grainger, dated 1910-11. As the original manuscript is marked "Sentimental", he may have intended to continue the series started by his "Colonial Song" (Sentimental No. 1). Some decades later he made a home recording with another pianist, the speeds taken being somewhat slower than the manuscript metronome markings (marked PG on the score seen...
Grainger Green Bushes
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Here's a treat for multi-piano buffs - Grainger's passacaglia on the folktune "Green Bushes" for three pianists at two pianos. From left to right: David Stanhope 3rd pianist, David Bollard 2nd pianist, Leslie Howard 1st pianist. If you try and follow the music, the piano duet on the left is easy enough, but the solo piano music jumps about a bit, being formatted differently. This is a concert p...
Gershwin-Grainger Porgy and Bess Fantasy
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Another concert performance from the Sydney Festival, this time in 1981, Town Hall. David Stanhope Piano 1, David Bollard Piano 2.
Mozart Sonata in D major for two pianos
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Concert performance from the Sydney Festival 1980, Town Hall. One of many collaborations I had with the very fine pianist David Bollard, who plays piano 1. Mvt 1: 0:00 Mvt 2: 7:44 Mvt 3: 19:13. What you see on the screen is not the edition we used. Ornamentation in slow movement is Bollard's.
Grainger Peace Glass Harmonica
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Very early piano piece by Grainger, here transcribed for glass harmonica, harp and strings. Enigmatic and haunting. Freeze screen for programme-note.
Godowsky Java Suite 3
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Godowsky's Java Suite movement No. 3, "The Great Day" is the third movement in my orchestral suite transcribed from the original versions for piano solo. This is an improved version from the old youtube upload, which I have deleted. Freeze screen to read Godowsky's programme-note at start. Eventually I will make all scores and parts available at the Australian Music Centre, where nearly all my ...
Godowsky Java Suite 7
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Godowsky's Java Suite movement No. 7, "Three Dances" is the fourth movement in my orchestral suite transcribed from the original versions for piano solo. Middle dance is gorgeous. Freeze screen to read Godowsky's programme-note at start. Eventually I will make all scores and parts available at the Australian Music Centre, where nearly all my music is stored.
Godowsky Java Suite 2
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Godowsky's Java Suite movement No. 2, "Puppet Shadow Plays" is the second movement in my orchestral suite transcribed from the original versions for piano solo. Very beautiful, this movement. Freeze screen to read Godowsky's programme-note at start. Eventually I will make all scores and parts available at the Australian Music Centre, where nearly all my music is stored.
Bizet-Rachmaninoff Minuet from L'Arlésienne
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Bizet-Rachmaninoff Minuet from L'Arlésienne
Toccata in D minor Bach-Busoni-Tausig-Grainger
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Toccata in D minor Bach-Busoni-Tausig-Grainger
Rosenkavalier Ramble Strauss-Grainger
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Rosenkavalier Ramble Strauss-Grainger
Mendelssohn-Liszt Wedding March and Elves' Dance from A Midsummer-night's Dream
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Mendelssohn-Liszt Wedding March and Elves' Dance from A Midsummer-night's Dream
Liszt Galop in A Minor orchestration
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Liszt Galop in A Minor orchestration
David Stanhope Le Grand Canon Romantique
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David Stanhope Le Grand Canon Romantique
I love it like this, it gives me the feel of an unstoppable wheel... Like in Gretchen am Spinnrade.
it has been a long time since ive felt such vigor and life from the piano... brought me to tears mr stanhope. one of the greatest performances of any piece ive heard in a very very long time
Wow! That's some comment. Certainly brightened my day, thank you.
Sir, thank you so much, that was a truly outstanding performance. Amazing.
Thank you!
This is more technically challenging than it is on the organ. Great job 👏🏼
you are have an amazing channel, I´m going to watch every video about the godowsky chopin studies. thank you for sharing those amazing studies. you play them so well!
Thank you!
Godowsky's left-hand chromatic etude after Chopin inspired to try my hand at arranging the Rach Bumblebee transcription for the left hand in b-minor. Didn't get very far but i imagine Godowsky would've had a field day with it the way Cziffra did with those alternating-octave runs, etc. in his insane arrangement.
Just finished watchung your op 10 series in 2 days between watching kids and doing dishes. I was totally enthralled and your commentary elucidated for me what Godowsky was trying to accomplish in his various arrangements that up til now just seemed largely to me to be Chopin melodies buried under a flurry of extra notes - wow, thank you, thank you.
My first piece i heard by Lizst
Sir, I have played Op.25 No.4 for 18 years now, explored many versions from different pianists, never managed to play it with under 3-4 mistakes at least. But your performance is simply sublime, maybe the best I've seen. And you seem to have huge hands, which is almost a "cheat" for this etude. And there is another common thing. I too decided at the age of 16 to not use any pedal. Reasoning back then? It is much more difficult, you do constant legato/portamento with some challenging jumps to keep the melody afloat. Some people don't have that skill at all, they compensate using the pedal. And those with smaller hands are virtually disqualified from not using any pedal at all. It's one of my favourite etudes as it requires a very specific skill, which I fortunately possess, but I salute you for your rendition of this underrated gem of an etude. Excellent performance. And, overall, you've done an inexplicably great deed of providing pointers for any aspiring Chopin/Godowsky learners, including myself.
Thank you for your kind comment, but I certainly do not have "huge" hands! I can only just stretch a tenth on black notes (such as Eb to Gb) and in the left hand only around the edges of white notes if I have time to prepare it. Right hand is slightly less stretch than that. See Opus 10 no 9 where I talk about this.
A great, great piece!
楽譜はBusoniだけど編曲はBach-Stanhope、88鍵より低い音。
Bravo! Wonderful performance!
Thank you!
Impresionante!!!! Es tremenda esta obra...como un volcán en acción🌋....si ya de por si es dificil Chopin...Godowsky menudo hijo de....jaja...impresionante😮😮😮😮
The speed is unmusical. At that velocity it is just a noise. The metronome has a chequered history in terms of tempo and there were several serious episodes of crazy / inexplicable speeds in musical history.
Crazy how catchy the themes in this movement are.
As if Winter Wind isn't hard enough, he's switched the RH part to the LH 😭😭😭😭😭
That was a real eye opener ! Thank you !!! Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
The postlude never fails to bring tears to my eyes. I haven’t found the time to listen yet, but will do as soon as I can. I’m sure your orchestration will be wonderful.
Have always loved this sonata, and your orchestration really captures the final movement beautifully. Love the use of winds especially, and your tempo choices are spot on throughout.
Thank you, I love it too!
How beautiful...the luscious harmonies suit the strings especially.
Very good orchestration!!
yes, fast, but a bit sloppy. can't hear some of the runs anymore because too muddled.
GREAT !! 🎉🎉 Also correct the title "BACH-Busoni" 😮😮 I'll wait for the same fairness and education when it comes to Vivaldi , PLEASE title "VIVALDI-Bach" all the transcriptions/arrangements the great BACH realized 😊😊😊 🌺🏵️🌺
you sir are a genius! Dont know what's harder - coming up with all those ideas or executing them flawlessly - but you did both!
Thank you! Not quite flawless but close enough perhaps.
Would you suggest using the ring finger for the single notes after the octaves/chords for the right hand melodies? Also, Im no expert but the right hand in Godowsky's study seems more difficult than the left (or it could be my imagination) what are your thoughts?
It depends on the relation between the octaves and single notes which finger, but it's mostly index and middle in the right hand, sometimes ring finger in left. Both hands are equally difficult!
@@davidrichardstanhope Awesome, thanks for the reply! I also wanted to ask: Which left hand only study would you recommend to someone with low technical prowess on their left hand?
Building strength is the key. When I first started learning 0p.10 no.4 I could hardly get through the first page! That's a good one to build strength in all fingers, however slowly you play it. @@Yatagarasu.
@@davidrichardstanhope Gotcha!! Regarding practice with these monstrous pieces, how do you approach them? Do you practice a few measures with separate hands, then reunite them? use of Metronome? what other piano exercises/drills aside from the piece should a pianist add as a complement
The same way for any piece - slow practice, separate hands. One should learn the original Chopin study first.@@Yatagarasu.
Bravo maestro❤❤❤
I don't know if you still check these comments but thanks a lot for uploading these. They're absolutely amazing!
When I get a friendly comment I almost always reply - thank you!
Just ridiculous. Unbelievably strong and dexterous left hand… my hands hurt from just watching this
It is nothing compared with the organ....best wait for that!
Fantastic job, David. May I ask - how long did it take you to learn this étude thoroughly? How many pieces are you able to learn in a year?
I am not a concert pianist - sometimes I hardly play at all for a year or two. I tend to have an intense period of practice, after which I do some recording. I learned all the opus 25 studies simultaneously over about two years.
@@davidrichardstanhope Not a concert pianist? Could have fooled me… Absolutely fantastic stuff, I’m deeply impressed.
I really appreciate all these videos and your effort, but I'm very disappointed that you chose to record the Op. 25 on such an underwhelming piano. There's a marked difference in quality between your Op. 10 and your Op. 25 videos. If you were to ever rerecord the Op. 25 on a nice grand piano, I would be ecstatic.
The opus 25 set was recorded in May 2020. Under the absurd tyranny overwhelming Australia at that time, it was difficult to achieve anything. As for rerecording, the cost of hiring a venue with a full grand Steinway would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Who would pay for that?
@@davidrichardstanhope I know nothing about what was going in Australia at the time, though I know that year was hard for everyone. I'm certainly not blaming you for the circumstances. But does it take a venue to record on a grand Steinway? I would assume many music departments of universities would be perfectly happy to lend a room with a nice piano out for a few hours a day for a week for such educational content. Did you pay tens of thousands of dollars for the Op. 10 videos? Again, thank you so much for all your work. You've done really wonderful things for the appreciation of Godowsky. I even learned the e-flat minor on Op. 10 No. 6, LH-only, after watching your channel.
Op 10 was recorded in 2012 when I was still living in Sydney. Things were cheaper then. I now live a two-hour drive away in the country, and there aren't any pianos better than my Bechstein within reach. I doubt if a full grand could be found anywhere that wasn't either too expensive or impractical. On top of that, who would record it? Tall Poppies would be not be interested. There are very few companies who do any recording of that kind of quality. CDs are dead. I would have to pay all expenses, and I can't afford it. And even if a venue with an excellent piano were available, I probably would not play the studies as well. I don't keep them under my fingers; it would take me a year to prepare it all again. Sorry, mate, it would all be impossible! We will have to be satisfied with the existing material.@@bradydill4767
Understood! Again, thanks so much for all you’ve done.
Here he created one hell of a apocalypse...
Dear maestro...i was thinking about the famous Godowsky statement "i assure you my studies are not that difficult...maybe a little bit when you read them..." 🤔
I just see a flying left hand 😍
6:42 do you think Godowski refer this right hand melody from Saint-Saens violin concerto No.3 3rd movement? or just coincidence? I’ve been wondering but nobody mentioned it
I don't think so. It's a pretty common pattern of decoration.
@@davidrichardstanhope Thank you!
Great!
David one thing I love about your performances is you don’t add the tiny pauses to give your hand more time to make a jump, stretch, etc - my teacher once told me you shouldn’t fit the interpretation to your technique but rather your technique should fit the interpretation. I feel you’re a shining example of doing this and it’s so satisfying to hear the piece as if the metronome never slows!
Some people have remarked that I play the piano as if conducting an orchestra.
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Hi David. This study is one of those (like feux follet and others) where the sheer physicality of playing the thirds at speed is like an impenetrable wall. How did you get faster? It seems like it is just a simple case of edging up the speed over months and months, or do you think there is a technique that opens doors here?
Hard question! Certainly hours of practice over time, but keeping the hand as relaxed as possible is probably a key factor. There are different fingerings to choose from - I don't use all of Godowsky's suggestions, but his may be the best. The more you play and practise all the left hand studies, the easier it gets!
This is amazing! ❤
The audio in your series is WAY too quiet! Can you re-upload these videos with louder volume? I can't hear you talking.
I agree that they are not loud enough on computers with a small speaker, but it is not possible to reupload.
How is the tempo marking that fast for the left hand only study…it’s literally impossible. Even Hamelin plays at 117bpm! Also I’d love to ask you…how do you feel the lower and inner voices rhythmically - at this tempo, do you not have to think of them as essentially a bunch acciacaturas rather than 16ths?
We'll never know whether Godowsky himself could actually play the left-hand study at the tempo marked! In the original study, I'm not sure I think much beyond trying to play each hand as smoothly as possible (lots of separate practice).
4:49
Extraterrestrial !
Incredible playing! Brilliant. Very thoughtful commentary. Thank you!
No worries! Glad you like it.
It might be a case of Liszt having a well-calibrated metronome and Faure's being all gummed up. Poor Liszt! 8:40 I'm certain he actually could play the "Allegro moderato" section on pg.13 (12 in some editions) at dotted-quarter=72 but he would have struggled unsuccessfully to make it all sound beautiful circa that tempo---because that's simply too fast!!! lol Your tempo is of course more fitting at 56-60. Faure's M.M. for the preceding Andante is equally ridiculous. Beautiful playing!
...I just checked and FWIW Faure brought that 72 down to 66 in the orchestral version. That's at least in the ballpark of reasonability. Still very fast though.
Thank you! I think also that the huge number of accidentals, which may have been in manuscript when Liszt saw it, made it impossible for him to sight-read accurately.
@@davidrichardstanhope Did you grow up with the Friskin/Freundlich handbook like I did? Ever read their entry for this piece? like WUT?!?!?!? "MD"?!?!? This piece forced Angela Hewitt to change the way she practices because of how difficult it is. What were they thinking?!?
No, I never heard of it until now!@@stephenbertino8373
@@davidrichardstanhope How about Hinson's big expansion of it? I think he was Freundlich's student. Same deal, at least in Hinson's 3rd edition: "M-D". It's incomprehensible.
I can't wait to learn this on viola!
This is so sweet!
Very cute!
Interestingly, in the autograph the very first left hand 5th is two half notes, rather than the whole note on the bottom that exists in literally every edition (the rest of the piece has the whole note in similar sections). I love your minimal pedal in this one, and your tempo / clarity is very exciting. Thank you for slaving away at all of these for what must have been years and making this series.
I'm having a rest now...