Froberger, Ricercare XIV, Piano Solo

[octopuscollective]

mistakes may be minor, or major, but they will never be diminished.

[octopuscollective]

i read your letter you wrote on the difficult section of this peice.. nice to see you perform it.

[smalin]

@octopuscollective Remarkable. You're probably the only person besides me and James to have read it.

[AEFic]

@smalin Where is this letter?

[smalin]

@AEFic If you go to the index page of my web site and look for "letter" (or "Froberger"), you'll find it.

[ironwork92000]

This Was AWesome!!!!

[bachinblack94]

@MagicDolphinGO yes, it seems the Kyrie Eleison from the Requiem Mass of Mozart.

[MagicDolphinGO]

does the opening motive remind anyone else of mozart's requiem?

[wesingtogether]

!!!!

always love to hear smalin's performance on the piano!!

[daniel15671]

What a joy to listen to.I just sort of browsed onto this page quite by accident. I've been listening to Kapustin for the last hour or two. In hearing this gorgeous ricercare, I realized that the 20th century has no monopoly on rhythmic vitality at all.

[NedNefarious]

Gaaahh, JJ Frobes is the MAN! And so are you, for having the best channel on youtube - besides having awesome taste in music, your own compositions are always interesting to listen to. You know there's this Princeton professor going around giving lectures where he shows visualizations of music, similar to some of yours, and talks about what we can learn from seeing it put out like that? Dmitri Tymoczko if I remember the name right.

[kentokhromatic]

Oh! This is the first Froberger piece I sight-read at a friend's house! It's pristine.

[smalin]

I'm guessing that what's happening around 2:45 in the lower (side) view is that the camera's image stabilizer is, momentarily, trying to follow my hands. That's the only explanation I've been able to come up with, since the camera was mounted on a very solid tripod across the room from me, and there was no one around who might have bumped it (and no earthquakes).

[kofothree]

ghost dude!

[smalin]

Yes, that's always a possibility.

[codonauta]

The theme looks like the "Dies Irae', or am I wrong?

[Jayne1286]

Pristine, as always.

[smalin]

@Jayne1286 Actually, there are a couple of slip-ups. But they're minor.