Grieg- Sylphide\ Sylph (Lyric piece no. 42) Samnon

Grieg- Sylphide\ Sylph (Lyric piece no. 42, Op. 62 no.1) Tal-Haim Samnon was born in Tel Aviv in 1986. From the age of six till eighteen he took piano lessons with Mrs. Hanna Shalgi of the Givatayim Music Conservatory .Since then he studied with Prof. Arie Vardi for six years at the Buchman- Mehta school of Music in Tel Aviv University where he did his B.A. In present time he studies with Prof. Evelyne Brancart at the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University, Bloomington. Tal graduated from the Thelma- Yellin High School for the Performing Arts and served in the Israeli Army as "distinguished musician", enabling him to pursue his musical career uninterruptedly.
Since the age of seven he has performed at many concerts in Israel and in Europe: Germany, Austria, France, Scotland, Holland, Switzerland and Portugal and more. He often performs for the Israeli "voice of music" channel, both in live broadcasts and in recordings, and has recorded for the Dutch radio as well.
Tal has been awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships since 1998, the "Ronen foundation" scholarships and "Buchman-Heyman foundation" scholarship.
He has appeared with several orchestras as a soloist, such as the Thelma-Yellin Orchestra, the Kibbutzim Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the Rishon Lezion Orchestra and was a soloist at a festive gala concert with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Zubin Mehta, marking the opening of the Buchman Mehta College of Music in Tel-Aviv.
He has taken part in many master classes, including those at Tel Hai with internationally known pianists such as Alexander Korsantia, John O'Connor and Pnina Zaltzman, Victor Derevianko, Leslie Howrad, Peter Tackacs, Jacob Lateiner, Boris Berman, Murray Perahia and more.
He won the Turgeman competition, the Paul Ben Haim competition, the "Highlights", the Ariana Katz, the "Maurice M. Clairmont", the "Young artist", "Lions Israel ", the "Tel Hai International Master Classes Competition" and the Zubin Mehta Piano Competition.

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• Tal-Haim Samnon
• Grieg
• Sylphide
• Sylph
• Lyric pieces
• no. 42
• Op. 62 no.1

[egalitarianist]

I really enjoy all the Lyric Pieces of opus 62 (1895) - none more than this mind-tickling piece. (Grieg's skill with syncopation rivals Scott Joplin's.) I have never before heard it played this slowly, but I believe this is the tempo Grieg intended and is what works best. The interpretation and playing are exceptionally beautiful, but be aware it suddenly becomes so loud at 0:46 that you may want to have volume turned a bit low.

[egalitarianist]

@egalitarianist In case my comment didn't make it clear, this is my favorite piece from Opus 62 (along with Drommesyn/Dream Scene/Traumsicht), and this is by far the best performance I've heard - very much, I believe, as Grieg would have played it. I love this. My favorite interpretation of Drommesyn remains by Cubus, but if I were to choose one pianist for all of Opus 62, it would easily be Tal-Haim Samnon. I really want more from him.

[Tsamnon]

@egalitarianist

Well, i do not deserve this pleasure. Thank you for your words.

Yes, Cubus is an amazing artist and being with him in the same comment makes me very honored.

Thank you!

Tal.

[Tsamnon]

@egalitarianist

Thank you! I really appreciate your comment! And yes! You are very right indeed. This part may sound a bit loud in this whole..

Thank you!

[Lover76Music]

Wow! That's how Sylph sould be sound!! So graceful and not like a circus as most of performances.. So many colors and the middle part is like a magic!

[Tsamnon]

@Lover76Music

Hey.. Thanks so much!!