Great playing! Could you advise on how to obtain a copy of the score? Publisher to purchase from? I live in the US and haven't had much luck locating a copy to purchase. Thanks in advance for your time and help with this AND keep up the great work;-)
+Dean Marcellana Thanks for your message. You can buy Kapustin piano albums 1, 2, 3 and also his etudes and preludes published by PRHYTHYM EDITION. I got mine in Schott Music Shop in London. The PRHYTHM EDITION has fingering and was supervised by Nikolai Kapustin himself.
+John Cervantes Thanks John! I really appreciate you getting back to me. I just got on their website (Schott Music in London) and emailed them. I couldn't find it on their website but HOPEFULLY they might be able to order it for me. Again, thanks for your help AND have been enjoying checking out your music. Sounds great!
Great work ! Cool, calm, and collected, with all the right swing. This is really a complex and difficult piece, probably easier for a real jazz pianist than for a classical amateur like me. I'd have wished for a bit brasher tuttis, especially at 2:43 and at the end. It's probably ok to use a little pedal here ?
Brilliant! At bar 45 (around 1:32) do you play the F at the bass or have you moved it? I can't reach that F (or any of the other bass notes of the chords that follow - I thought no one could haha) so I play it as a grace note instead, but if there's room for the F to be moved to the middle of the chord, then that makes life a lot easier!
Hi, thanks. Yeah I was playing the 10ths as written with the F at the bottom etc., but grace notes would be fine too, better than moving it I think. Cheers!
Very good playing ! But.....the microphone set up is not the best. In fact it is all wrong for the piano. Most recording engineers do not know how to set up mics for the piano. They, just like everyone else, believe that the sound of the piano comes from it's right side, as the propped-up lid would suggest. This is NOT completely true. The actual "stereo" sound of the piano (high notes on the right, middle notes in the middle and low notes on the left) comes only from the keyboard side of the piano. The ONLY person who hears the piano in stereo within it's full range of notes as they are in the left-to-right scale is the piano player. Everyone and every microphone placed to the right of the piano hears a monaural sound, funneled out at the exact position of 90 degrees to the hammers. Treble, middle and bass notes are all mixed together. There is not true piano sound on the right side of the piano. The mics should be placed on the right, middle and left side of the hammers, about 12 inches above them to record the actual stereo sound of the piano's complete scale. I count 9 mic stands here. They only needed 3 mics....treble, middle and bass, 12" over the hammers. You can discover the true piano sound for yourself by walking around the piano as it's played. The best sound of the entire piano scale will be where the pianist is sitting.
Thanks for the comment Jennifer - actually micing up pianos is something I was looking into very recently because I was thinking about buying some mics so I could do recordings myself. I'll have to try your suggestion if I get the chance!
John Cervantes Microphones don't have to be expensive to be good. It depends on what you are recording and what you are connecting the mics to. For piano, you will need a pair of mics, a pair of mic stands and mic holder adapters for the stands. Shure mics are the best quality for the price. A pair of PG 58 cardiod pattern dynamic mics are good general purpose mics costing new about $54 at Guitar Center. For a more alive sound to make professional recordings, most engineers use condenser mics which require phantom power (48 volts D.C.) supplied by the mixer or recorder you plug them into or an outside source. A pair of Shure PG 27 cardioid pattern condenser mics are good home studio mics and have a 20 dB attenuation feature with a stand adapter and carrying pouch at $149 each. Shure PG42 cardioid condenser mics have more features but the same large diaphragm. They come with shock mounts and carrying cases at $199 each. Both models will record piano, instruments and voice very well. I've used these types of mics along with my Neumann mics which cost over $1,000 each and it is difficult to tell the difference on playback. Guitar Center pro-audio departments can give you lots of information as to what you may need without trying to sell you anything more than you really need. They have knowledgeable sales people who really know about recording gear. Keep in mind that the world of microphones is filled with snobs, experts, phony experts, and pseudo sophisticates, many of whom believe that only microphones costing thousands of dollars can properly record instruments and voices. Not so. A pair of decent quality microphones, placed properly as I mentioned on the left and right sides of the piano 10 inches above the hammers will capture the full range of the piano and pick up every nuance you play. When you mix the recording you can EQ it as you please, and the mic placement will allow you to pan far left and far right, which widens the stereo sound of the piano. The goal is to hear high notes from the right speaker, low notes from the left speaker and middle notes in the center...just as you do when you play piano. If I wasn't a pianist, I never would have known this, yet despite this knowledge, engineers continue to rig elaborate mic set-ups which do not capture the true sound of the piano as the pianist hears it. Talk to the people at Guitar Center for good microphone and recording advice. You don't have to own a Steinway Model D to be a good pianist. You also don't have to buy overly expensive recording gear to make high quality professional home studio recordings. Good luck !
2:04 finally someone understands Kapustin's Swing! Most pianists seem to ignore the little delay in the right hand
Just perfect. Mr Kapustin would be proud of you.
Fantastic
Great performance of this Kapustin piece.
Thanks!
Superb! Great style and execution.
Bravo!
I've never hear such a grooving Kapsutin. Thank you for uploading!
Awesome!
Great entry into the Kapustin race...thanks!
cheers!
awesome! I love that piece :D
awesome! I'm reading it right now :D
Great playing! Could you advise on how to obtain a copy of the score? Publisher to purchase from? I live in the US and haven't had much luck locating a copy to purchase. Thanks in advance for your time and help with this AND keep up the great work;-)
+Dean Marcellana Thanks for your message. You can buy Kapustin piano albums 1, 2, 3 and also his etudes and preludes published by PRHYTHYM EDITION. I got mine in Schott Music Shop in London. The PRHYTHM EDITION has fingering and was supervised by Nikolai Kapustin himself.
+John Cervantes Thanks John! I really appreciate you getting back to me. I just got on their website (Schott Music in London) and emailed them. I couldn't find it on their website but HOPEFULLY they might be able to order it for me. Again, thanks for your help AND have been enjoying checking out your music. Sounds great!
Great work ! Cool, calm, and collected, with all the right swing. This is really a complex
and difficult piece, probably easier for a real jazz pianist than for a classical amateur like me. I'd have wished for a bit brasher tuttis, especially at 2:43 and at the end. It's
probably ok to use a little pedal here ?
Does anybody know where I can get a copy of this? I can't seem to find it anywhere!
Brilliant!
At bar 45 (around 1:32) do you play the F at the bass or have you moved it? I can't reach that F (or any of the other bass notes of the chords that follow - I thought no one could haha) so I play it as a grace note instead, but if there's room for the F to be moved to the middle of the chord, then that makes life a lot easier!
Hi, thanks. Yeah I was playing the 10ths as written with the F at the bottom etc., but grace notes would be fine too, better than moving it I think. Cheers!
perfect articulation! o_o i'd love to steal it, if it were possible.
Very good playing ! But.....the microphone set up is not the best. In fact it is all wrong for the piano. Most recording engineers do not know how to set up mics for the piano. They, just like everyone else, believe that the sound of the piano comes from it's right side, as the propped-up lid would suggest. This is NOT completely true. The actual "stereo" sound of the piano (high notes on the right, middle notes in the middle and low notes on the left) comes only from the keyboard side of the piano. The ONLY person who hears the piano in stereo within it's full range of notes as they are in the left-to-right scale is the piano player. Everyone and every microphone placed to the right of the piano hears a monaural sound, funneled out at the exact position of 90 degrees to the hammers. Treble, middle and bass notes are all mixed together. There is not true piano sound on the right side of the piano. The mics should be placed on the right, middle and left side of the hammers, about 12 inches above them to record the actual stereo sound of the piano's complete scale. I count 9 mic stands here. They only needed 3 mics....treble, middle and bass, 12" over the hammers. You can discover the true piano sound for yourself by walking around the piano as it's played. The best sound of the entire piano scale will be where the pianist is sitting.
Thanks for the comment Jennifer - actually micing up pianos is something I was looking into very recently because I was thinking about buying some mics so I could do recordings myself. I'll have to try your suggestion if I get the chance!
John Cervantes Microphones don't have to be expensive to be good. It depends on what you are recording and what you are connecting the mics to. For piano, you will need a pair of mics, a pair of mic stands and mic holder adapters for the stands. Shure mics are the best quality for the price. A pair of PG 58 cardiod pattern dynamic mics are good general purpose mics costing new about $54 at Guitar Center. For a more alive sound to make professional recordings, most engineers use condenser mics which require phantom power (48 volts D.C.) supplied by the mixer or recorder you plug them into or an outside source. A pair of Shure PG 27 cardioid pattern condenser mics are good home studio mics and have a 20 dB attenuation feature with a stand adapter and carrying pouch at $149 each. Shure PG42 cardioid condenser mics have more features but the same large diaphragm. They come with shock mounts and carrying cases at $199 each. Both models will record piano, instruments and voice very well. I've used these types of mics along with my Neumann mics which cost over $1,000 each and it is difficult to tell the difference on playback. Guitar Center pro-audio departments can give you lots of information as to what you may need without trying to sell you anything more than you really need. They have knowledgeable sales people who really know about recording gear. Keep in mind that the world of microphones is filled with snobs, experts, phony experts, and pseudo sophisticates, many of whom believe that only microphones costing thousands of dollars can properly record instruments and voices. Not so. A pair of decent quality microphones, placed properly as I mentioned on the left and right sides of the piano 10 inches above the hammers will capture the full range of the piano and pick up every nuance you play. When you mix the recording you can EQ it as you please, and the mic placement will allow you to pan far left and far right, which widens the stereo sound of the piano. The goal is to hear high notes from the right speaker, low notes from the left speaker and middle notes in the center...just as you do when you play piano. If I wasn't a pianist, I never would have known this, yet despite this knowledge, engineers continue to rig elaborate mic set-ups which do not capture the true sound of the piano as the pianist hears it. Talk to the people at Guitar Center for good microphone and recording advice. You don't have to own a Steinway Model D to be a good pianist. You also don't have to buy overly expensive recording gear to make high quality professional home studio recordings. Good luck !