By my count, you mentioned 36 pieces: two mazurkas by C. Schumann, five pieces by Bach, seven Scarlatti sonatas, thirteen assorted Chopin works, the Davidsbundlertanze and Arabesque by R. Schumann, the Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses, and six Beethoven sonatas.
Thank you for showing all of these processes and thoughts! I don't play any instrument and I know nothing about classical music, but I am fascinated by the "being human" part of art.
I love how the music just flows from your finger tips. Aided by the score, the various passages created by so many composers across the ages appear to reside in your brain and casually flow like water down a mountain stream, but is always so well executed. It’s the combined and unique product of years practice, coupled with your tremendous talent as a pianist that makes it look so easy. Thanks for sharing.
Tiffany I just wanted to say that you inspire me a lot to be a better artist. It means a lot to watch one of my heros, a real life classical musician practice and thinks and talks and I cant thank you enough for it. Have a great day everyone! *Sorry about grammar/language mistakes :)
Thanks Tiffany you're the only one could inspired me to make a list of Scarlati, because is a composer i never had toutched. I do this now. And tnanks for everything you do because i know you do with the heart.
I've finally learning K380 now thanks to you, I'm so glad you chose to do that piece. You inspired me to get piano lessons 2 years ago and I'm so happy to have found you. Keep striving! Thank you!
Brilliant! I am so looking forward to the concert! Love the selections and watching the journey to putting this together was wonderful! Thanks so much!
Congratulations! Happy and delighted for you! FYI...my piano teacher has me reading a book on Clara Schumann for an upcoming piece I'm to learn. Interesting lady. I shared your video of you playing her piano with him. He was delighted!
That was great. Thank you, kind Miss Poon, for involving us into the process of compiling the recital program. May I note that the final decision is just lovely. Probably because of frequent appearance in past vlogs, Scarlatti sonata K380 identifies so much with your sparkling personality. For a change, I would recommend guitarist Leo Brouwer's 1974 recording, in his own transcription. Smiling and waving from Istanbul.
Congratulations Tiffany on winning the gig in SF. Whatever the programme you will do a very professional job and your audience will delight in being able to hear and see your interpretations live. It’s great to see you looking so happy and motivated. Take care and remember to enjoy the experience.
Girl, I should think that a good music promoter and the fans who watch and listen , would be honored and extremely entertained by your music performances and your very musical personality.....you have in my opinion the one in a million talent required for such an undertaking and a wonderful repertoire.
break a leg on your sf debut! your playing is magical and anyone there listening would be absolutely blessed to hear you 🫶 but we'll all be listening to you whether we're here or there :)
Thanks for sharing the process! There's so much unknown in being a classical pianist for others. Watching this video feels like we're working together. Sadly, I can't come to the concert as I don't live in the US, but I'm still very excited about it!!
I was able to get a tix and the Herbst is only a block away from me. I’ve only heard Kempff’s version of Herr Schumann’s piece, so I’ll be happy to hear yours live. I hope that you can feel the positive vibes that a SF audience has to offer. Thank you for choosing to perform here in SF🎼🎹🎫
Aaaah now that you mentioned the concert in Zurich in 2020, I almost went there! But it was too late to buy the tickets and I was very upset because I really liked the pieces you were playing :’( Anyways I hope you come again to Switzerland!!
It is fascinating to see how much thought and effort goes into these sort of things. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this process, and I hope the concert goes well. A special shout out to Editing Tiffany as her contribution made this video extra enjoyable.
I was really hoping that you would chose Chopin Nocturne Op72. No.1 About two weeks ago i found this piece again after not listening to it for a long time. I looked up versions on youtube and i loved your version the most. You made this Chopin piece sing, and told a story beyond words. I cried while i listened to that. That is what a great musician does. While i cannot attened the concert physically, i hope to one day hear you in person. Love from Israel🇮🇱
Scarlatti and Chopin (mazurkas and waltzes, please), great!... Bach and Scarlatti on the same day is probably too much baroque. Beethoven is always a wonderful main course. How about some Debussy? His music always creates such a beautiful, sort of ethereal atmosphere. I love his music. That theater's interior design is very European (goes great with the music you play). Good luck with the concert 🎹
You remind me of the time when I was deciding and arranging my photos for a portfolio slide show. 😁 Anyway, looking forward to your concert. This will be my first concert since covid broke out.
Hi Tiffany There is a little and unknown musical gem that will surprise everybody... It is “Péchés de vieillesse” (sins of old age), 56 small pieces for piano that Rossini composed along 4 years before his death and after 34 years of inactivity. In them Rossini has fun imitating great masters like Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Bach, etc. They have a simple structure and some easy melodies, you will reach the heart of any listener and it will take you little time to prepare them (you will have fun too).😀
Before you rationalized your choice of Hamburg one on the right, I had my preference on the Hamburg after listening to your playing on both while debating which one to settle for. I am glad we made the same choice ! Break a leg !
You could follow a baroque d-minor piece with Brahms op.24. The Handel aria picks up the baroque style, an B-flat as VI of d-minor is a perfect uplift from the darkness of d-minor.
Impressive ! A lot of work to Configure a concert program that will give the audience the best of you performing ,taking into account rehearsal time, your emotions, skills and musicality. You look as though you have taken on an a bigger role with the responsibility of both performance and Concert material. Your name Tiffany does stand out in your printed Email with your concert program.
I like your Beethoven; real attention to voicing. I want to hear your Tempest - which I'm tired of. BTW, I have same frying pan as you. Smaller version used only for small omelettes - no sticking.
I you want a waltz theme, how about considering Weber's Invitation to a Waltz? Incidentally, of all recordings I have heard of yours, Liszt's 10th étude stands out as a version that I have not heard better played than anyone else. Do keep it your repertoire.
Prelude in B minor is always one of my favourites when it comes to Chopin. The base has such a wonderful melody. I would love to hear your interpretation sometime.
Scarlatti Kirkpatrick 208 in A major . I can't believe it is never a part of the smaller anthologies. Maria Pirez has made it her signature piece like Horowitz did the EMajor .
You'd think in a Major city a presenter would ask for a likable piece by a living composer! One staccato note (an anacrusis)just forever told mewhatBach might besaying and what I shouldbedoing whenIplayhim!Thankyou ! Scarlatti find some new ones too... Scarlatti is some of the best music but he didn't own a piano.Was there a pianoforte in the Spanish palace . Bach sold pianofortes we found a receipt even after 2 world wars decastated Europe and I presume Handeltoo knew pianos . Haven't we all heard enough Chopin waltzes unless someone like Pogorelich or Pletnev plays it in a completely new way -why . Schumann too is my fave composer for pianoeven beforeChopin.He has more healthiness. There is stuff in VienessePranks you'll never find elsewhere.So vocal in places like the Intermezzo andSymphonicEtudes (Unbelievable!) .TheSonatas took me a long time to even be able to listen too like Chopin 3rd Sonata they are so different .
I was going to say it hasn't even THAT long since you played Beethoven right? But then I remembered last time I heard you play Beethoven was in Tilburg, the Netherlands back in 2020. Sad how quick time went by because of Covid. Good luck with the gig regardless!
Fun and maybe oddly enjoyable to watch and listen to you somewhat "struggle" to decide what to play. ; - ) I was "invested" in your decision since I will attend the concert! Btw a couple of hours afterwards I will be attending a Korean hip-hop gig that also includes a female R&B/Soul style singer named DeVita and a pretty esoteric more "indie" type singer named Sogumm (Salt).
If you can end with a Chopin Scherzo played with conviction it is a good programme, and could be the ending of a programme with the Scarlatti Sonatas, Beethovens Op.31.2 and Schumann, something. I think that is enough duration, and would be such a nice ascending in intensity?
Hey Tiffany... have you composed any of your own works..? I would really like to hear an original creation derived from the years that you have been playing... You are so talented. I saw you in Cleveland some years ago during a Chopin concert and was overwhelmed by how easily you played the emotion behind Chopin's works.
Not a musician (can't even read music), but I reckon that after Tempest, it would be better to have the Mazurka than the Nocturne, which seems quite vivid to me, not calm. Anyway, good luck!
Here is another suggestions for A Chopin Schumann transition. A Chopin piece that is calm but also bipolar could be etude op 10 no 3 “Tristesse”. You don’t normally think of etudes as calm. How would e minor work with parallel g major?
21:10 I really love music that is a bit wild! plz more :) also stark contrast between pieces a couple of times is great. when I was a young boy my parents took me to concerts, but I was too bored when everything was so smooth and harmonic hehe.. congrats to the gig! I would so love to attend but I live in central europe. these Bach pieces like Invention#4/775 sound kind of "cybernetic" to me. some classic composers were built into the soundtracks of SF movies. did you ever consider to put together a "cyber" concert, that uses pieces that have that kind of "psychedelic" impression?
Schumann's Carnival..I had watched you play this before..it was epic, it would be nice to include Chopin's lone prelude in A-flat BI 86 Kk IVb/7 its a presto con leggierezza its 40 bars long and dazzling..follow this with Chopin Waltzes op.70 1-3 these are beautiful posthumous pieces of Chopin..follow these with Faure's Sicilienne and the 1st and second Barcarolles..but in general keep it simple with pieces you know well..and knock their socks off..oh forgot Chopin's Variations Brillante would be nice.
Question: How many pieces did I cycle through in this video? I lost count while editing... Be kind. Keep striving! See you April 3rd :)
By my count, you mentioned 36 pieces: two mazurkas by C. Schumann, five pieces by Bach, seven Scarlatti sonatas, thirteen assorted Chopin works, the Davidsbundlertanze and Arabesque by R. Schumann, the Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses, and six Beethoven sonatas.
I think 36? Also I am a huge fan of you, keep up all the hard work!
Thank you for showing all of these processes and thoughts! I don't play any instrument and I know nothing about classical music, but I am fascinated by the "being human" part of art.
I love how the music just flows from your finger tips. Aided by the score, the various passages created by so many composers across the ages appear to reside in your brain and casually flow like water down a mountain stream, but is always so well executed. It’s the combined and unique product of years practice, coupled with your tremendous talent as a pianist that makes it look so easy. Thanks for sharing.
Tiffany I just wanted to say that you inspire me a lot to be a better artist. It means a lot to watch one of my heros, a real life classical musician practice and thinks and talks and I cant thank you enough for it. Have a great day everyone!
*Sorry about grammar/language mistakes :)
Awww that's so sweet 🥺 Thank you. Comments like yours are why I keep returning here to show behind the scenes of my journey 🤗🙏
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Thanks Tiffany you're the only one could inspired me to make a list of Scarlati, because is a composer i never had toutched. I do this now. And tnanks for everything you do because i know you do with the heart.
Dear Tiffany, you are doing great! Thanks for letting us be a part of your live. I am so happy for your success! Best regards from Sweden
HI Tiffany, happy you got the gig! And double YAY it's in San Francisco.Just got my tickets. See and hear you soon! 👍🙏
I've finally learning K380 now thanks to you, I'm so glad you chose to do that piece. You inspired me to get piano lessons 2 years ago and I'm so happy to have found you. Keep striving! Thank you!
Yayy!! Hope you keep on loving Scarlatti and many more with me 🤗🎶🎹
Brilliant! I am so looking forward to the concert! Love the selections and watching the journey to putting this together was wonderful! Thanks so much!
Yay! This program is amazing and I can’t wait to go see you! This is my first real piano concert to go see I am so excited :)
Congratulations! Happy and delighted for you! FYI...my piano teacher has me reading a book on Clara Schumann for an upcoming piece I'm to learn. Interesting lady. I shared your video of you playing her piano with him. He was delighted!
Thank you! Enjoy Clara Schumann's music and tell your teacher I say hi :)
Congratulations Tiffany. =) This video was really fun and relaxing to watch!
Tiffany builts programmes from the pieces she likes, and I built programmes from pieces I can play....quite a difference 😕
That was great. Thank you, kind Miss Poon, for involving us into the process of compiling the recital program. May I note that the final decision is just lovely.
Probably because of frequent appearance in past vlogs, Scarlatti sonata K380 identifies so much with your sparkling personality. For a change, I would recommend guitarist Leo Brouwer's 1974 recording, in his own transcription.
Smiling and waving from Istanbul.
I was really ecstatic to see you on the notifications! I find these ‘behind the scenes’ and thought process stuff to be entertaining and fun to watch.
Congratulations Tiffany on winning the gig in SF. Whatever the programme you will do a very professional job and your audience will delight in being able to hear and see your interpretations live. It’s great to see you looking so happy and motivated. Take care and remember to enjoy the experience.
I am so excited for you and this opportunity you have to continue to share and inspire us young musicians in our own journeys!
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Girl, I should think that a good music promoter and the fans who watch and listen , would be honored and extremely entertained by your music performances and your very musical personality.....you have in my opinion the one in a million talent required for such an undertaking and a wonderful repertoire.
Hearing you play does something primal to my soul. I feel and hear colors coming forth, and I am the emotional canvas.
Congratulations on getting the gig, this brightened my day!
Just got my tickets! Can't wait to see you play.
Wow…amazing how a performer works behind the scenes.
Magnífico video. Ojala pudiera verte alguna vez en Sevilla (España). Saludos!
I’m a violin player who will never be great - and I admire your utter dedication. An inspiration. Thank you!
Hello Tiffany! Your playing is so special. Thank you for the inspiration ❤❤
break a leg on your sf debut! your playing is magical and anyone there listening would be absolutely blessed to hear you 🫶 but we'll all be listening to you whether we're here or there :)
Thank you!
Although I won’t be able to come to your concert, I’m still so so happy for you getting the gig!
Thanks for sharing the process! There's so much unknown in being a classical pianist for others. Watching this video feels like we're working together. Sadly, I can't come to the concert as I don't live in the US, but I'm still very excited about it!!
It doesn't matter what you choose - we enjoy the choosing!
Knew this was coming. Haven't got anything interesting to comment, i just wanna help the algorithm
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sparked my interest in classical music and i’ve been listening to schumann and rachmaninoff on repeat
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I love all the pieces that you play in this video 🙂🎹🎵🌺🇬🇷
I was able to get a tix and the Herbst is only a block away from me. I’ve only heard Kempff’s version of Herr Schumann’s piece, so I’ll be happy to hear yours live. I hope that you can feel the positive vibes that a SF audience has to offer. Thank you for choosing to perform here in SF🎼🎹🎫
Goodness, you’re coming to SF. I really want to go but Herbst theater require the booster shot too upon entry. So unnecessary.
Aaaah now that you mentioned the concert in Zurich in 2020, I almost went there! But it was too late to buy the tickets and I was very upset because I really liked the pieces you were playing :’( Anyways I hope you come again to Switzerland!!
I think the Berceuse, Op.57 of Chopin could be good piece
Congratulations Tiffany well done!
Congratulations. I'm sure they will love it.
Pretty sure you're flexing by your pinned comment but I'm still a big fan and I hope your concert goes well. I like your Chopin choices. 😏
Not flexing, just encouraging people to watch all the way through the end...😉
I really like Chopin's third Ballade and Beethoven's Patetica sonata, though it's a shame you've been limited to so few composers.
It is fascinating to see how much thought and effort goes into these sort of things. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this process, and I hope the concert goes well. A special shout out to Editing Tiffany as her contribution made this video extra enjoyable.
Glad to see you again, Tif 😀
I love all of your selections!
Aaaa ım so happy to see tiffany in youtube again aaaa
Hiii sorry I've been absent. I was sick for a while... ♥️
I was really hoping that you would chose Chopin Nocturne Op72. No.1
About two weeks ago i found this piece again after not listening to it for a long time.
I looked up versions on youtube and i loved your version the most. You made this Chopin piece sing, and told a story beyond words. I cried while i listened to that. That is what a great musician does. While i cannot attened the concert physically, i hope to one day hear you in person.
Love from Israel🇮🇱
So enjoy your videos - thanks so much.
Here are my choices start with happy pieces, next Chopin, last end with calm and happy pieces.
Ohhh I'm performing there next February! I think it will either be the Schumann Concerto Or Rachmaninoff 2
Scarlatti and Chopin (mazurkas and waltzes, please), great!... Bach and Scarlatti on the same day is probably too much baroque. Beethoven is always a wonderful main course. How about some Debussy? His music always creates such a beautiful, sort of ethereal atmosphere. I love his music. That theater's interior design is very European (goes great with the music you play). Good luck with the concert 🎹
You remind me of the time when I was deciding and arranging my photos for a portfolio slide show. 😁 Anyway, looking forward to your concert. This will be my first concert since covid broke out.
Of course, you got it, Tiffany. Best of luck!
Have ticket, will travel to see you in concert...thank you for coming to the Bay Area!!!...😃😃😃
Hi Tiffany
There is a little and unknown musical gem that will surprise everybody...
It is “Péchés de vieillesse” (sins of old age), 56 small pieces for piano that Rossini composed along 4 years before his death and after 34 years of inactivity.
In them Rossini has fun imitating great masters like Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Bach, etc. They have a simple structure and some easy melodies, you will reach the heart of any listener and it will take you little time to prepare them (you will have fun too).😀
A wonderful program. That Chopin Waltz is also one of my favourites. Good luck with the concert. Stay safe and keep striving :)
Before you rationalized your choice of Hamburg one on the right, I had my preference on the Hamburg after listening to your playing on both while debating which one to settle for. I am glad we made the same choice ! Break a leg !
What to do? What to do? Well, you can’t go wrong with a good polka. Get the audience up and dancing…. (I’ll see myself out).
Beethoven pathetique Sonata is always good.
You could follow a baroque d-minor piece with Brahms op.24. The Handel aria picks up the baroque style, an B-flat as VI of d-minor is a perfect uplift from the darkness of d-minor.
Impressive ! A lot of work to Configure a concert program that will give the audience the best of you performing ,taking into account rehearsal time, your emotions, skills and musicality. You look as though you have taken on an a bigger role with the responsibility of both performance and Concert material. Your name Tiffany does stand out in your printed Email with your concert program.
Please come to France! 😃
I like your Beethoven; real attention to voicing. I want to hear your Tempest - which I'm tired of. BTW, I have same frying pan as you. Smaller version used only for small omelettes - no sticking.
Which ever pieces you or the programmer chooses, I have no doubt you’ll wow the audience to their core
Woooowow this program is really mixed! Is it harder working with performances like this, or not much of a difference?
It depends. I've been so deep in Schumann world for over a year, so it's been taking longer time to think of repertoire outside of that bubble 😵💫😅
Beethoven wrote dances. Chopin Mazurkas are wonderful, his waltzes are too obvious. Here is a great idea.. La plus que lente by Debussy
Scarlatti’s K380 is a Tiffany classic 👌🏻
Lols we are performing in the same day, this is my debut oboe concert as a soloist, and I am playing the Mozart oboe concerto in C major.
I you want a waltz theme, how about considering Weber's Invitation to a Waltz?
Incidentally, of all recordings I have heard of yours, Liszt's 10th étude stands out as a version that I have not heard better played than anyone else. Do keep it your repertoire.
Prelude in B minor is always one of my favourites when it comes to Chopin. The base has such a wonderful melody. I would love to hear your interpretation sometime.
Thanks Tiffany
Hope to see you perform in person one day! Would be awesome to see you come back and play in Hong Kong:3
I am biased: K380 is my absolute favourite piano piece. The reason why I took up lessons.
Oh wow!! 😃
Yes, a particular piece can do that. For me, it was hearing Glenn Gould’s 1955 Columbia Masterworks recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
My piano teacher and I are attending this recital :)
Scarlatti Kirkpatrick 208 in A major . I can't believe it is never a part of the smaller anthologies. Maria Pirez has made it her signature piece like Horowitz did the EMajor .
Good luck with your gig:D
You are awesome 🥺❤️
HI TIFFANY YOU’RE BACK🥳💕🥳🥰💕
Hi 🥰
Love watching the process. Perhaps in a future program you'll try some Liszt.
I just started playing the piano and I really like how you play I'm a fan 👍
You motivate me to more time on piano 🙏
You'd think in a Major city a presenter would ask for a likable piece by a living composer! One staccato note (an anacrusis)just forever told mewhatBach might besaying and what I shouldbedoing whenIplayhim!Thankyou !
Scarlatti find some new ones too...
Scarlatti is some of the best music but he didn't own a piano.Was there a pianoforte in the Spanish palace . Bach sold pianofortes we found a receipt even after 2 world wars decastated Europe and I presume Handeltoo knew pianos . Haven't we all heard enough Chopin waltzes unless someone like Pogorelich or Pletnev plays it in a completely new way -why . Schumann too is my fave composer for pianoeven beforeChopin.He has more healthiness. There is stuff in VienessePranks you'll never find elsewhere.So vocal in places like the Intermezzo andSymphonicEtudes (Unbelievable!) .TheSonatas took me a long time to even be able to listen too like Chopin 3rd Sonata they are so different .
I was going to say it hasn't even THAT long since you played Beethoven right? But then I remembered last time I heard you play Beethoven was in Tilburg, the Netherlands back in 2020. Sad how quick time went by because of Covid. Good luck with the gig regardless!
Fun and maybe oddly enjoyable to watch and listen to you somewhat "struggle" to decide what to play. ; - ) I was "invested" in your decision since I will attend the concert! Btw a couple of hours afterwards I will be attending a Korean hip-hop gig that also includes a female R&B/Soul style singer named DeVita and a pretty esoteric more "indie" type singer named Sogumm (Salt).
I'm also struggling to choose guitar pieces for my next concert. I think your two sets sound great. Cheers.
I only live a few hours away from SF, but I can't go D: However, I wish you the best of luck, Tiffany!
If you can end with a Chopin Scherzo played with conviction it is a good programme, and could be the ending of a programme with the Scarlatti Sonatas, Beethovens Op.31.2 and Schumann, something. I think that is enough duration, and would be such a nice ascending in intensity?
Hey Tiffany... have you composed any of your own works..? I would really like to hear an original creation derived from the years that you have been playing... You are so talented. I saw you in Cleveland some years ago during a Chopin concert and was overwhelmed by how easily you played the emotion behind Chopin's works.
For Scarlatti, I like K 113
You put carrots in the frying pan? I usually boil first then add to mixture later. They must be pretty crunchy cooked like that. 🥳
Not a musician (can't even read music), but I reckon that after Tempest, it would be better to have the Mazurka than the Nocturne, which seems quite vivid to me, not calm. Anyway, good luck!
From another 'not musician' who also can't read music, i agree completely.
I extremely like Frühlingslied by Mendelssohn and Ballade No. 4 by Chopin. Maybe 2 pieces to consider for your program 😁
I'd like to listen you playing Chopin Nocturne Op.48 No.2, I can imagine how would you play it soft and lovely.. Best wishes
I would concur but add op 48 no 1!
Here is another suggestions for A Chopin Schumann transition. A Chopin piece that is calm but also bipolar could be etude op 10 no 3 “Tristesse”. You don’t normally think of etudes as calm. How would e minor work with parallel g major?
Bach's overture in french style is a very nice one
21:10 I really love music that is a bit wild! plz more :)
also stark contrast between pieces a couple of times is great.
when I was a young boy my parents took me to concerts, but I was too bored when everything was so smooth and harmonic hehe..
congrats to the gig! I would so love to attend but I live in central europe.
these Bach pieces like Invention#4/775 sound kind of "cybernetic" to me.
some classic composers were built into the soundtracks of SF movies.
did you ever consider to put together a "cyber" concert, that uses pieces that have that kind of "psychedelic" impression?
Honestly, Ballade 2 is my favorite after 4. It's the only one I've managed to learn so far
Schumann's Carnival..I had watched you play this before..it was epic, it would be nice to include Chopin's lone prelude in A-flat BI 86 Kk IVb/7 its a presto con leggierezza its 40 bars long and dazzling..follow this with Chopin Waltzes op.70 1-3 these are beautiful posthumous pieces of Chopin..follow these with Faure's Sicilienne and the 1st and second Barcarolles..but in general keep it simple with pieces you know well..and knock their socks off..oh forgot Chopin's Variations Brillante would be nice.
His way of playing Chopin is very particular ( I could be listening for hours)
You should play the Mazurka in A minor by Chopin. It’s so calm and beautiful
I know you’re a prof, but im amazed that you still know pieces from when you whe’re twelve from memory. Cool!
A Mystery watching through, tense and intriguing,’
Romantic pieces of course❤