Giordano plays Rachmaninoff - Etude op 39/9

[enecee13]

great job, nicely done!

i made a recording of this piece on my own, and i would really like to get some feedback on it... please visit my channel or just insert this into the url to get to the video:

watch?v=-adeVA-uMCI

thanks a lot! i'm happy for every comment about my playing...

[wildknight1103]

Dear Mr. Giordano,

Greetings from Seattle, Washington USA. I want to tell you how much I have enjoyed this performance of the Rachmaninoff etude. After such a performance, only one word springs to mind: BRAVO!

This piece is a particular favorite of mine, and in my opinion, yours is the best video of it on YouTube. I have already shared it with a number of my friends, and will be sharing it with more through Facebook.

You must come visit us in the USA soon!

[sanjosemike]

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF INSANELY DIFFICULT WORK

Your middle passage was not rushed, but played lyrically and thoughtfully. You never used too much pedal and you never "pounded" the pedal points.

Gad, I wish I could play half as well as you do...

Rachmaninoff would have clapped his hands in delight!

sanjosemike

[FFRPianist]

Wow! This is an amazing performance!

[ManlioGiordano]

The magnificent sound quality deserves some mention, or rather the two sound engineers that achieved it, who are the most competent perfectionists in their field of expertise that I have ever had the pleasure of working with: Håkan Ekman and John Burmeister of Piteå School of Music. Håkan Ekman and I will now collaborate again for a recording project (double CD) in the new state of the art studio / concert hall that will be completed in Piteå, Sweden, this fall.

[onclassical]

Hi! Great performance. Already don't you think to enter to onclassical?

[sagalat]

Wow! Very impressive. No histrionics, but huge sonorous campanilo sound. Compares very favourably with Horowitz and Kissin. Next, please learn the Alan Richardson arrangement of 'Vocalise.'

[ManlioGiordano]

"Sagalat": One of the major secrets behind achieving what (perhaps aptly) is often called a "large sound", is knowing "in advance" - during performance or away from the piano - how (almost) everything should ideally sound, in your mind. Otherwise, you simply have no standards to compare the sound you produce with and will never progress significantly. Learning how to hear and sing with multiple voices simultaneously is painful but necessary.