Topic: New Pianoteq Album (part 5)

6 more recordings (of 49) from the Piano Revealed album, selected from the 7-book piano method, and ranging from easy to intermediate. All tracks feature Pianoteq's NY Steinway D (v7.4). The full album is available at https://nathanshirley.bandcamp.com/album/piano-revealed

Information about the piano method: http://pianorevealed.com/

Hope you enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6JUwKH18O0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLqZjeBvNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFBV_FkHnuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7JGuqzzTKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIucTK4f_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jo8kSpxqI

Re: New Pianoteq Album (part 5)

My little analysis this time (or how I experience the music).

Pageantry:
”Pageantry is the grandeur that turns an event into an elaborate spectacle. ..”
Well, for me this music is like a scene of a play, In beginning I can hear a musicbox - and G Major and d minor, wow! you get it so captivating, nice.

Sarabande - like the part 0,23 - 0,42.  Beautiful.

Butterflies - Can sense the butterfly wings in flight on a lovely spring morning.  Good imitating.

Wabi-sabi - I’m thinking of Buddhism and a tea ceremony, a ritual of purity…

The forest - I’m thinking of a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth, a spruce forest near our house.

Snowflakes - snow falls from the sky, music describe quite small flakes, but sometimes they stick together and create a much larger snowflake.. I can hear it in the music in the forte part at the end. Your music made every snowflake have an unique structure.

You said Hope you enjoy. Yes, I did. We react different to different music and I’m an empathic person, so I probably view music in a bit unique way. And
I begin to see the logic of/behind this piano method, as an uniquely good piano method Thank you for sharing. Waiting for next,

Stig

Re: New Pianoteq Album (part 5)

Thanks again Stig, always very interesting to hear your thoughts/interpretations on this music. I definitely think there's plenty of room for different interpretations in art--part of what makes it all so fascinating.

All the best.

Re: New Pianoteq Album (part 5)

awesome pieces.  wish i had had such cool pieces to learn when i was starting out.  for me it was just Off We Go To Music Land.  but i once heard Billy Joel sing that song in an interview, so i guess it has a good pedigree.

Re: New Pianoteq Album (part 5)

budo wrote:

awesome pieces.  wish i had had such cool pieces to learn when i was starting out.  for me it was just Off We Go To Music Land.  but i once heard Billy Joel sing that song in an interview, so i guess it has a good pedigree.

Many thanks Budo.

Thompson's method gets a lot of criticism these days, but it definitely has its strong points. There wasn't really anything quite like it back when it came out.