Alkan: Concerto for piano solo 1st mov.(Trial Recording)

[Hana98mana]

How many times do you practice?

So good...

I want to playing the piano like you!

[MoonMankkkkkk]

Did you have trouble with this piece's fingering?

[kaki0genkin]

@MoonMankkkkkk Well... I can't remember at now. I'll tell you if I got remember.

[Sorcerer88]

awesome, great performance! it must be an odyssey to learn this. you're probably right, too much for an amateur to master it all. too bad about the last melody note at ~8:24. other than that, sugoi!

[4candles]

WELL...DONE!!! Great achievement for any pianist, let alone an amateur (technically speaking). I have another piece I would be interested for you to look at - I will email it to you.

[mendesalkan]

Amazing..

[EsSUEzaRCK]

A...i'm korean

you r bestest pianist

Oh..so good

[TripleRhu]

@EsSUEzaRCK I am Korean as well, but I don't get why you are suddenly bringing that up.

[Nerd0Wannabe]

I really love this music!! Very nice!

[LOLittleHero]

fantastic!!

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

wonderful new year present for me here in Singapore !

THANK YOU <3

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

and please get a better camera ><

I want to hear your good playing in HIGH QUALITY because you very much deserve HIGH QUALITY.

[ReptilianRaep]

@FlyingBlackAndWhite Money doesn't just appear out of thin air

[kaki0genkin]

@FlyingBlackAndWhite Yes, I know it's better, but financial and technical matter exists. And I can't think of it before thinking of improving my performance itself.

Incidentally, this is the 'newest' video camera in the late in 90s, a reach-me-down from my parents. I use it since my debut on YouTube.

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

I find it quite amazing how you do those large tremolos so well!

my hand gets very tensed when I try to do those type of tremolos.

[JMCYutz]

Bravo !!! Comment fais-tu pour jouer ça ? C'est tellement long et difficile. Fantastique !

[f1f1s]

What a courageous act. What a cute present for all pianophiles extraordinaires.

[VayDooble]

Bravissimo!

[daigoro789]

wonderful!

[shubus]

Glad to see you working in Alkan again. The concerto is surely his best and certainly longest pieces.

You need to fix that squeeky piano bench!

[OrangeSodaKing]

This is one of my favorite piano pieces ever. It must have been amazing to study it. I'm glad to see you play all the music you love. :)

[madlovba3]

Well done, keep up playing Alkan! After first listening, I'd have only one question: why did you use pedal at 24:50-25:00 and 25:40-26:00? I do understand that it sounds quite orchestral to sustain the lower chords there, and pedal is expedient later (25:03-25:36), but it's noxious at the beginning as almost nothing can be heard from the fiendish repeated notes. Sustaining the lower chords with the middle pedal would be a solution, I think. (I don't wanna make your job even harder, though :O)

[kaki0genkin]

@madlovba3 Well, it seems better, I'll refer to, thanks!

[eurisko618]

@madlovba3 I wonder why the opening chords thru (at least) :40 and into the development are so dry. The score calls for marcato on the opening chords, not staccato. Both Hamelin and Ogden hold these quarter notes for their duration. Don't get me wrong: this is a fine performance for an amateur and I send best wishes; I just like it a little less dry :-;

[atee12321]

You have made my 2012!

[thx113829000]

Eventually you've done it! Fantastic performance!!! and mad chops!

[Benjabenja77]

Woah...Amazing!

[mortenkul]

Sick man !