Spencer Myer plays Carl Vine Sonata No. 1 (mvmt. 2 of 2)

[drumlife1]

Amazing.

Great Job Spencer!!

[dsyglym]

i m playing this piece... damn it is hard

[CHENNN26]

back, mozart, beethoven, chopin, have culminated to bring to us this monstrosity

[SNUchiaki]

So great, because it is a LIVE performance!!!

[andreybeci]

cliche

[george4mon]

@andreybeci how the hell can you call this cliche? its the complete opposite!!

[andreybeci]

@george4mon the hell it is not!!! parallelism, scales! What so original - patterns and all. Easy too.

[george4mon]

@andreybeci i couldn't disagree with you more!

[andreybeci]

@george4mon Chopin, Tchaikovsky and many other have done it. What is there to disagree? You want a list of pieces?

[george4mon]

@andreybeci of course its harder to find originality in music nowadays because almost everything that can be done with music has been done, but i don't like the term cliche because it makes me think of phillip glass and jim brickman who do simple predictable music, we clearly have different opinions about this piece so lets agree to disagree

[george4mon]

@andreybeci and its not easy!

[Vook]

How do you even begin to interpret and express a piece like this?

I don't know, but he does a remarkable job.

[Refamire30]

Amazing pianist. I never heard of him before. Just checked some of his recordings on his website. This guy is awesome.

[onxtcz]

wonderful piece, 0:13 sounds a bit like 'emerson, lake and palmer'

[5tgb6yhn5tgb]

The first section sounds like the ending of one of Michael Tippets Piano sonatas - quite similar - Vine repeats it over and over - utterly brilliant piece though from Carl - very talented composer.

[dreampoets]

@5tgb6yhn5tgb More like the first section of this 2nd movt. sounds of the Ginestera sonata, the Misterioso second movt.

[koobird]

displays a fine facility. but a little impersonal for my taste

[dnephi]

It is directly to not be played romantically. I think that the aloofness is precisely what the piece requires.

[domus84]

Carl has since retracted his instruction to play without romanticism, after hearing Babayan perform it with rubato and molto espressione.

[pianoman0341]

Source? I'm learning this piece and saw the original instruction, but hey, playing it with some rubato would make it much easier...

[domus84]

Source is Michael Kieran Harvey, the sonata's dedicatee, who was my teacher at university. Verbal quote. He also said though, that one should still be able to play it as originally directed, to ensure all the metric modulations are accurate.

[pianoman0341]

Heh, well that's good advice for every piece! Thanks for the info.

[pianoman0341]

Just FYI, I emailed Carl Vine about this and his response basically said that he hates romantic interpretations of tempo. While he doesn't mind a faster rendition than he marked, he doesn't want performers using a lot of rubato and having "twenty different tempi" per measure.

[Viscamo]

A big influence of Chopin B minor

[langlois1]

@Viscamo Bb minor?

[Viscamo]

@langlois1 Offcourse Bflat minor.

[bringit401]

Now that's bad ass.....amazing!

[ihowell83]

One of the things I've noticed about Spencer's playing is that I always think to myself, "Wow, he always plays such great music!" And that is true, but it's more than that. Not only does he pick amazing pieces to play, but he always finds a way to get to the soul of what makes that piece what it is. I've heard other people play pieces that he has performed, and his performances are so often so much more compelling. He is my hero.

[pianofan86]

I completely agree with you! He has his very own way of playing. He's unique.

[jannokas85]

Music is so powerful...i started listening to this and before i managed to even think a thought i was overwhelmed by this...already i got drawn into this mystical world that this music is...amazing pianist!!! For some reason this piece reminds me of a particular time in my life...when i was between 11-13 and had a strange view of the world which sounded like this.

[InsaneSparrow]

This is a great performance of a difficult piece of music. Great clarity in the playing here

[trevindye]

great interpretation. Nice to see someone playing new pieces.

[Waldstein19]

so great !

[Alvarordonez]

Exelent! both the composer and the performer. Your video of this sonata is one of my favorite!!!!!!

[kn1v3s37]

Dude! I know spencer myers!

[jackyriko]

He's amazing!!!so Great!!!

i want to play this song.. but it seems very very very difficult..

[divaleich]

You're Amazing I Love it!

[dimmy1985]

nice to see an australian work on here!