22 Nocturnes for Chopin, by women composers | REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2024
- This book is filled with newly composed, beautiful, music, and I think nicely bridges a gap in lyric repertoire for intermediate and advanced students. In this video, I demo one page of 6 of these Nocturnes, the pieces by Agnieszka Lasko, Nitzan Verdi, Alanna Crouch, Victoria Proudler, Nicole DiPaolo, and Zoe Rahman. I give a short reaction after sight-reading each, and later in the video present my opinions about the collection as a whole.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to introduce the book and for all of your lovely comments about my piece! I'm so glad you chose mine as one to review!
Alanna! Wonderful work! Thanks for checking the video out and very best wishes to you!
@@PianistAcademy1 Thank you🙂
I love everything about this video! It’s a wonderful way to support women composers, and the nocturne is such a great vehicle for creating something familiar/approachable to most pianists. All these are beautiful, but that last one by Zoe gave me chills and made me want to play it myself; will definitely be purchasing this book.
Also, your last point is spot on about learning something brand new. In the last several months, I’ve begun recording music by little known/unknown living composers. It really is a totally different experience from learning a famous piece. There’s more room to put your own interpretation into the piece, since there are no other recordings to consciously - or subconsciously - rely on.
Thanks, Bethany! Pick up a copy and let us know when you record one of them!!
I purchased the digital book based on your performance. I can think of no one more qualified to critique these compositions as you are such a masterful composer and stylist of solo piano pieces yourself.
Thank you again for featuring this wonderful collection full of gems that I hope to see become standard teaching repertoire and highlight the merits of historical composition study. I'm proud to be a part of it.
excited!!! love these pieces and delving into foreign keys!!! Great video!!!
Thank you so much for this very sensitive and heartfelt review of the nocturnes. Pianist Rose McLachlan (who initiated this project) is performing the complete set at Kings Place London on October 5th - it will be wonderful to hear all 22.
I hope the performance is recorded for us all to hear!
highly curious and excited about this book, thank you for your presentation!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for reviewing this for us and showing some samples.
The last store dedicated to sheet music closed down in my city, and an explanation of music is now really helpful.
Thank you,
Jon.
The nocturne you posted is soo beautiful, I hope theyll put it on spotify soon!
Hi Charles, thank you so much for the review presentation and introduction of the book to your audience; I loved hearing your thoughts about the music and your playing!
Thanks! And thanks for publishing a wonderful collection. I truly hope these pieces become standards for students and hopefully a part of many exam boards in the future!
@@PianistAcademy1 Thank you, Charles! It was an interesting project: we called for women composers aged 14+, and the submissions were judged blindly by a panel of experts. Alanna Crouch was the youngest, aged 15 at the time. The oldest composer, Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton, is an octogenarian.
That's so lovely! I also love how, while all Nocturnes, each composers' unique style and experiences is very present within their pieces. It's simultaneously a diverse yet uniform collection of music.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm definitely adding this book to my collection.
Thanks, Kyle! I hope you and your students find your favorites in this set!
Your sight reading sir is impressive!
Awesome!
This is a jewel !!!
Pour moi, c'est la musique de l'avenir.
It sounds so much better in French than to say this is out of my pay grade. But these pieces sound wonderful. I don't know a lot about Nocturnes, but this piqued my interest.
Thanks you for showcasing these women composers.
It reminds me of a concert by a pianist who celebrated Black composers, and there were several women composers amon gst them. And he gave their history. It would have been nice to know these composers backgrounds, since I really didn't have a good opinion of most modern composers. These were like a breath of fresh air.
Of the ones I've heard, they stand on their own, It doesn't matter the race or gender of each of the composers. They are beautiful compositions that could have been written by Chopin himself, although he did not tend to paraphrase himself. That in these pieces that sounds the most like Chopin would probably not have been used by him a second time.
I think i prefer my Nocturnes a little bit more dramatic. The book is called Nocturnes for Chopin, but it should be called Nocturnes for Op. 9 and Op. 27
Fair! I do like the dramatic Nocturnes from Chopin and others as well!
Wait, people wrote nocturnes _for_ Chopin? I sure hope he appreciated it.
If possible make an accompanying CD of the complete pieces to go along with the book.
Although you spoke against this idea.
Yeah, for a quick reference the recordings on the EVC page are a great place. At some point, someone will record the entire set on an album I'm sure. Perhaps if that isn't done in the next 2 or 3 years I'll do it myself. But in the meantime, exploring music before recordings exist is such a rare opportunity for students of classical music and it can be very eye opening.
What is a woman?
Why is it necessary to exclude male composers?
I’m happy to support female composers since… they’ve gotten the short end of the stick (really no stick at all) for most all of music history. The composition project also relates to the fact that all of Chopin’s Nocturnes were dedicated to females, so this was intended to be a reversal of that… all female compositions dedicated to Chopin.
@@PianistAcademy1 It's also a nice way to form a collection. There is certainly nothing shabby about the writing, and in the classical world many female pianists deliver more sensitive performances than males. My most favorite interpretations of the original Chopin Nocturnes are by Maria João Pires who plays them in an entirely unique and expressive manner.
Well, today's female composers have at least as good a chance as the male ones. You are still excluding men just for being men. Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@peterschliemann4975@peterschliemann4975, you are absolutely right; female composers do have a better chance of being published because of projects like this one. I am a female publisher, and I became one when I couldn't find anyone interested in publishing my music back in 2006. It took me another ten years to leave safe employment and set up a business I fund myself. Every music book EVC publish today is based on a single merit. Will the audience like the music? On our website, you will find anthologies by men and women.
@@peterschliemann4975 we can agree to disagree, because I very much don’t view any all female collection of music as “wrong” in any way. Across my entire channel I have released close to 200 pieces of content. All but approximately 3-4 of them feature music written by male composers. And it’s not because I’m sexist towards men, but it’s because for 300 years almost all of the repertoire was solely written by men. I don’t think 10-ish years of more equitable publishing makes up for 300 years of not. Even as a male composer myself, I don’t at all feel that I was excluded from an opportunity. I have plenty of ways of getting my music out there.
Something tells me chopin couldnt listen to these i dont know why though
I think it’s a beautiful collection of modern nocturnes. Some are closer to the romantic idiom of composition, but all are nice pieces with their own merits. As I say in the video, one of the primary places this sits in the repertoire is great music to study after you play William Gillock and before you play Chopin’s own works. It fills a void of this style writing for the intermediate to advanced student, from about RCM 6 to 9 ish.
Chopin was a supportive teacher--we just have less evidence of this because his students were mostly not on pre-professional tracks and didn't perform publicly enough to spread Chopin's teachings as much as Liszt's students did. Chopin might have been surprised and delighted by the jazz-flavored works (jazz would clearly be new to him) but I do think he would at least support well-wrought compositional endeavors by students and others.
@PianistAcademy1 I like some of what I heard. Don't the nocturnes of John Field also fill the void between Gillock and Chopin?? D flat major is my favorite key but the except of the nocturne you played in that key didn't remind me of my favorite Chopin nocturne, and one of my favorite pieces in the repertoire, Op 27 No 2. Listening to that piece makes me feel like I'm closer to God. Thanks for the review Charles. I do think some of these pieces sound quite interesting.
The last except has that Spanish flair feel to it. Very interesting.
I think he would like them, but feel they could be more original by taking less actual material from him as he was always very original, not borrowing from himself.
PLEASE! MUCH LESS TALK, MUCH MORE MUSIC!!!!!
Sorry, Monique! 🫤