F. Richardson - Pavana (IV - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) - HISTORIC FINGERING!
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- Ferdinando Richardson - Pavane/Pavana - Slow processional dance.
I use HISTORIC FINGERING here. (Except for two beats in the L.H. in one spot because I panicked since it was going so well!)
I am a former professional pianist, educator, collaborator, composer, and recent wannabe harpsichordist forced into early retirement due to a genetic heart condition which has finally caught up to me!
Now I spend my time researching and recording modern classical piano music that hasn't yet been recorded, and I also enjoy making the best out of "easier" pieces from the canon. I will present showy pieces as my health allows, but my current health and endurance typically limits me to early-advanced literature.
I record for RUclips simply as an excuse to keep learning music until it's polished and presentable, and if people want to listen and watch, then that is icing on the cake! Outside of RUclips, I teach intermediate/advanced adult hobbyists at the piano.
1998 PETROF Model IV Chippendale
1969 Zuckermann 5-foot Straight Side Z-box Harpsichord
Recorded with the Zoom H2n Handy Recorder in 2ch surround
Absolutely stunning!!
Ren music on near-period instruments and technique is my happy place! Thank you!
This was so lovely! Love early music!❤
I'm curious if Domineco Scarlatti's works would be possible with the 57 key limit. I'd imagine that a good number of them probably are. K.466 in F minor is one of my favorites, but there are great many that are good, and are a good flavor change from Bach, given Scarlatti's being influenced by Spanish folk guitar music of that era.
Happy to say my own pianistic progress continues with my Petrof IV. It's fine tuned now, and will just be having some regulation done on August 26th to shore up some dampers and the action a little as some of the hammers are a little bobble headed as I mentioned in one of your earlier videos. So yeah, looking forward to having that done. I really really love the smoothness of the action, and the weight is just about perfect (for me). The Steinway D at the church is similarly weighted, but has a little more "click" feeling to the keys.. not stiff, but... more... tactile I guess. And of course the Steinway M that our lessons are on is a bit heavier, and I find it a challenge to really make that particular piano sing (partly because we keep the lid closed, and I think there is also an acoustic cloth over the strings). Anyway, feels great to have something I can really bring out the dynamics with. Oh, and the una corda is loosening up a little.
Looking forward to holding some in-home soiree's with some of my fellow adult students.
Also, by fine tuned, I mean more that the Petrof is now tuned to I think it's A=438 at the moment. We'll try tuning the pitch fully to A=440 and see if it behaves. If not, we might need to consider a pitch raise. It was pretty out of tune when I bought it, though not nearly as bad as my old childhood Baldwin Hamilton upright was. So, I had a first "rough" tuning done in late May, a week after having it moved, just to make things tolerable for practicing. Fine tuning was done just a couple weeks ago, full month from the first one, so the wood should all be acclimated by now. The pitch had dropped a good several cents since the May tuning, but that was expected as the wood was still acclimating to the new home. I am happy to say that the pitch drop was uniform across all keys, so I didn't even notice that it had happened. That everything was very uniform/even and in tune with the neighbor keys was a nice sign.
I did get a hygrometer to keep near the piano, and the room is staying pretty stable, roughly 76 F at 50% humidity with some swings +/- 5 or 6 on the humidity now and then, but nothing major. We have radiant baseboard heating, so the air shouldn't get too dry during the winter months, but I'll monitor.
Great update about your piano! Regarding Scarlatti, I’m working on a few Sonatas now, and they work with the 57 keys, but I do use the highest and lowest keys often!