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@@jamiegodfrey1860 thank you Jamie for expressing your appreciation

@@jljovano you are very welcome! Thank you for watching

@@zashuiva7324 thank you very much for your comment 🙏…I am glad to read that the joy that Bach generates in my spirit has resonated with yours…and yes it so miraculous that this joy is offered not only by pieces explicitly joyful, like this beautiful one, but also by those that express the dark and heavy dimensions of life…of course this applies with other great composers, yet in Bach it happens in a peculiar and special way, at least for me…🙏

@@rogerward8047 thank you for your very generous assessment!

@@frankjpeter I’m too pleased if you enjoyed “my” JSB, Frank! Thanks for your words and for visiting!

@@marthaselleck7180 thank you Martha! I am very glad that you liked it…beautiful music, beautiful territory…I’ll keep it always in my heart, with the memory of your kindness as well!

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Thank you Marti for your comment! I am very glad to read that you liked the video…and my best compliments for your channel!…truly marvelous, marvelously sweet❤️

Thank you very much! No, unfortunately…you might want to watch the tutorial on the same prelude on Paul Barton’s channel. I remember there were a few fingering tips that might be helpful for you. Thanks for your visit!

I welcome with reverence your quote in my channel Petar! Thank you…It’s for me a marvelous and mysterious statement and I do feel music is a privileged gate possibly leading us toward the profound core of it… 🙏❤️

Your gratitude is mirrored and magnified in mine for you, Frank!Your visit here is my honor and pleasure 🕊️

Frank, thank you for welcoming my performance in your time and listening to it. It’s a great reward for the hard work it took for me…studying and playing a beautiful piece is nurturing in itself, though finding through it a further chance of connection magnifies the joy and the value of the experience 🙏🙏

Grazie Luca! Son contento se il video ti è piaciuto!

@@mypianospacetime9977 323113435364134Deco ancora vederlo tutto, qui è notte e sono un pò stanchino, a presto Alfre👍👋

...mi son partiti dei numeri a caso...mah😊

...devo ancora vederlo tutto

@@lucariboni5006 mi pareva un po’ tardino lì da voi 😊

Ciao Daniela, un grazie immenso a te, non “solo”per la tua bellissima musica ma anche per le tue parole così gentili, che mi rallegrano donandomi un bel sorriso nel cuore 🌄🙏 …e quanto aggiungo fa un po’ da sequel al commento che ti ho lasciato sul tuo canale…siccome il mio e’ un piccolo pianetino musicale, ne posso indirizzare l’orbita con una certa libertà ☺️decidendo verso quale delle meravigliose galassie musicali dirigerlo e gustarmi da vicino in modo personale, intimo e intenso, le loro (e quindi le tue) meraviglie…che fortuna…e che emozione quando alcuni mesi fa scoprii la galassia dei tuoi brani 🌌 💫✨⭐️🪐…e quella stessa emozione e’ riaffiorata così spesso e così intensa innumerevoli volte fino a oggi, nonostante la mia esplorazione, in effetti, sia ancora ai poco piu’ che primi passi…e mi son già perso in questa prima parte di bellezza sconfinata, ma non ho affatto fretta di ritrovare l’orientamento…❤️🌌🌸🌅 🌸🙏A prestissimo

Daniela…convocherò lo staff della mia security e li riprenderò duramente, questo canale è solo un umile diario di viaggio e non è degno della tua visita…avrebbero dovuto impedirtela con gentile fermezza, vatti a fidare …😄😄😄❤️❤️❤️ Scherzi a parte… … e’ un onore e un piacere troppo grande leggere le tue parole… dalla creatrice della meravigliosa musica che così tanto amo ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️ …… ma come ho fatto a vivere 50 anni senza di essa?!?!? Misteri della vita… per forza dovevo smaltire la troppa emozione, scherzandoci sopra😅 …Grazie di cuore della bellissima sorpresa del tuo commento, veramente troppo bello, troppo generoso…e del tutto inaspettato 🌸🌹🌸🌹🌸🌹

Alfredo… era doveroso, oltre che sentito, per quanto hai fatto per me… sempre grazie a te… ❤️

@@daniela.mastrandrea …il “fare” di cui parli altro non è’ che l’espressione, nei modi per me possibili (e spesso troppo modesti rispetto a quel che ricevo), dell’immenso piacere interiore generato dall’incontro con la tua bellissima musica e della gentilezza e generosità della persona che le da’ forma. Immensamente grazissime a te, Daniela 🌸❤️🙏

This is a beautiful piece. I must obtain it, but won’t be able to play it as sensitively as you have. Thank you for playing, memorizing!!, and posting. Are you retiring this piano and getting another?

@@rogerward8047 Thank you Roger for your kind words. I agree, it’s a beautiful piece, and beautiful are also the other pieces in the same album (you can find them on the artist’s channel). And the simplicity of its writing is as great as its beauty…if you want, have a look at the tutorial on my channel, some tips might be helpful, maybe. Yes, I had to give away the piano as I am in the process of repatriating to my home country.

You are very welcome! I am glad if you enjoyed it

P.S. and congratulations for your channel, I started watching a few videos, truly very nice! Thanks 🙏

Thank you very much for your comment, sir!I am very glad that you enjoyed it!

Yes I feel the same…this is one of those magic pieces that transcend their time and space…and yes I also felt while studying how the game of delayed notes that would otherwise express the harmonies with clarity create colors at times resembling what normally found much later in post romantic pieces…. All the best for your work, most of all enjoy it profoundly, and…well you are kind but mine are not meant to be lesson, but rather sharing my thoughts and passion on what I do at the piano, a bit like when at high school I was doing when meeting with friends to work on an assignment and discussing our views on what to do to get it done to the best of our possibilities… Again, thanks for visiting!

This is not a place of teachers and students, my friends…just a window to present my views, as when in high school at time I enjoyed my time with school mates in working together on some assignment, sharing our views and understanding…but…on top of this, this place would have never come to life if I didn’t come across, one day many years ago, your great teachings and wisdom!

It’s you that inspired me with your passion, intelligence, integrity and generosity, my friend, my mentor and brother…

Thank you for your feedback! So glad to hear that 🙏Enjoy this beautiful piece

Thank you very much for your comment. I am immensely happy to read that you found this video helpful. Of course to make concepts clear I amplified the movements, once you get the idea you have to work on that right tiny amplitude of gestures that makes things work relatively comfortably… more a feelings than a seeing…plus consider that habits built-up with inappropriate practice may disturb the outcome at times… but what we understand in a particular piece become an asset to exploit in others…best luck and enjoy your time at the piano!

It’s my pleasure to read that you found it interesting. Thank you very much for your exceedingly generous comment 🙏😊🙏

You are very welcome

Thank you for you kind comment, Pamela…I had to check it myself, because I had no idea…🙃…I think I am floating around 84, each bit being for two quarters (…or 42 every four quarters, that perhaps helps to move more elastically…)…it’s such a beautiful piece that can be rendered in a thousand different ways…I am sure every time I play it I slightly change my tempo…and most of all, I like to float in it, slowing down for a bit or accelerating a bit through the phrases, as the emotions travel through notes and harmonies…

Hi Tara, thanks for the question… I wish I had a magic wand for this, but I don’t, I can only share here my process: Two bars at a time. Left hand first. 3-4 times, slow. Right hand, do the same. Then, hands together, 3-4 times. At each repeat, try to reduce the number of notes you read. Here you can also build chords that may be familiar to you, holding notes, and repeat two three times each chords you made to internalize the harmonic frame. After doing the above on all chunks of a full phrase - about one line typically, 8 to 12 bars, try to put together all the 2-bar chunks. Don’t expect to have memorized this in one day. Memory will build gradually over a few days of repeating the above. 3-4 lines are a good target for a day. I would expect that repeating daily this over about 6-10 days you should build a fair memorization of the 3-4 lines. If you are disciplined in daily study even more than that. And then keep going to cover the rest of piece in the same process. Have you ever tried memorizing a poem? Is similarly hard, to me at least. Hope the above could be of some help. Should you come across better tips, I would be glad to hear them! Most likely the of all, enjoy your time. Stay well

PS Perhaps you have seen that in my channel I posted a study discussion about this piece

It’s my honor and pleasure…thank you for your comment 🙏

It was my pleasure to share my thoughts. I am glad if you found it of interest 🙏

@@mypianospacetime9977just subscribed! ❤

Thank you very much 🙏 I am pleased and honored to learn that! Yes it’s one of those jewels that could be turned in a thousand different ways, always discovering something new and unexpected of their beauty. Peace, Alfredo

Thank you Francois, I am very glad for it, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts! I am pleased if this will be of a bit help for you to walk through the beauty of this piece to enjoy it more intimately, through your own feelings and rendition 😊👍🙏

Dear Greg, thanks a lot for your very kind words! It was actually with pleasure and great interest that I watched your video on interpretation at the piano, as well as several others of yours, so rich and inspiring in their contents and generously offered to piano students and piano lovers! Thank you for visiting my channel!

Thank you for the insights! I am glad that you found the video interesting. It’s interesting for me as well to read in your comment about vivement in 18th century dictionary, thank you 🙏 …I hadn’t the chance of verifying that and in my case it was primarily a vivid inner perception developed through listening different renditions and especially to the music while working myself on it. I personally think that if the non-storical action of playing at the piano is undertaken, a thoughtful exploration of what the instrument allows with the entirety of its tools and features is desirable , although the musical result with same means might differ greatly from player to player. And yes, I see your good point that for who wants to perform the piece at the harpsichord or other instruments, a different technical approach is needed as the sound aesthetic is profoundly different, as well the instrument action properties.

@@mypianospacetime9977 The playing on the piano is historically correct…one need go no further than the Dover reprint (English edition) of the Fr. Chrysander and J. Brahms Vol. 3 of Pieces de Clavecin published in 1888 in Paris and London And other than using modern clefs it’s an Urtext edition to my knowledge before the term came into use. A bit of of not so trivial trivia, Brahms owned a clavichord, not just any clavichord, but one previously owned by W A Mozart. Schirmer in the USA had an Instructional edition (current euphemism for the heavily edited versions) aka edited by Louis Oestrerle (published separately as well as part of volume 2 Early Keyboard Music from copyright 1904 and renewed in 1932. My point, there’s 135 year tradition in Europe and 119 year tradition in the USA of playing Couperin on the piano.

@@Renshen1957 very interesting and informative. Thank you 🙏

You are welcome! It’s a Chickering piano. I was told it was produced around 1920

You are very welcome! I am glad that you enjoyed the video!

You are very welcome, Professor!!!

es un Chickering piano, me dijeron que fue fabricado en 1920 ... ... sí, tocarlo es como tener una conversación con un viejo amigo, con algunas dolencias, pero un sabio y amable 😌 (thanks to Google translate for the help 😅)

@@mypianospacetime9977 Thank you for the response. For a moment I even thought that maybe it could be a Pleyel.

@@isostasique You are very welcome! Thanks for switching to English. I have read that 19th century Chickering pianos had been praised by Franz Liszt, who even owned one (as a gift from the company, quite a forward thinking promotional move, I guess😄). Just as historical curiosity 🙂

I am pleased and honored, professor! … basically, you are observing the fruits sprouting up from your own garden 👩‍🌾🎵✋

Grazie for your generous appreciative words Professor Frank! Basically, I simply keep throwing seeds into the furrows that you hardly ploughed for me with passion, intelligence and talent! And it’s my pleasure to enjoy the fruits that time to time sprout up after the persistent hard work in the music field 👩‍🌾 🎼 🎵🤠

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What a wonderful video dear Alfredo! I will recommend it to my students who play this Etude. It's fantastically done and your playing is marvelous. Thank you for mentioning me here!

@@gregniemczuk Dear Greg, it’s my great honor and pleasure to receive such a generous feedback from an accomplished artist as you are! I do feel your own presentation and this are complementary one another and feel deeply honored for you taking time to listen to my thoughts on the “byo-mechanic” foundations of the etude’s playing choreography, in the way I understood it. I am truly glad if you found something in my technical review of interest and hope will be of help for your students to find their own way to tame this marvelous “little beast” 😅

Thank you! I am glad that you found it useful! This also encourages my intention to produce a video on a piece of similar level soon. Enjoy your study around Les Barricades!

That’s great to hear! I look forward to watching more of your tutorials! ☺️

It’s very plausible and realistic. Thanks for sharing it

That’s very kind for you to say, thank you!! 🙏 It’s quite an enigmatic and extravagant diptych…searching one’s own rendition is quite an adventure, and a hard work 😅(for me at least!)

@@mypianospacetime9977 I really love the Richter one. And I found your idea very similar. With an extra scent. Really beautiful.

I have just found and listened Richter’s performance, thank you for pointing it to me!🙏 … if you like, you might want also to listen to Friedrich Gulda, intriguing and provocative, and to Scott Ross at the harpsichord (for me always very enlightening in his approach to baroque music). Richter and these ones - among many others - are to me a sort of “sacred shamans”, like fixed stars in the sky, often far from each other, not to be copied of course, but to consider in the quest of my own understanding of the musical substance, exploring the infinite nuances and viewpoints that one can discover and express in Bach’s works… again thanks!