Chopin Winter Wind (Home Practice) age 8

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Home Practice recording. I found this nice gem when cleaning out our rehearsal recordings taken before her concert in NY. Normally, before a concert, Anna makes several recordings and studies them to figure out how to improve. It takes a lot of patience, self study and self examination. Not for everyone. Hope you enjoy!

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Music

Tags:

• Chopin
• Winter
• Wind
• Etude
• Anna
• Larsen
• age

[ChopinEtudeLover]

There is absolutely no way that your daughter actually read these notes. I have studies 'piano prodigies' for years and most of them were taught through the Suzuki method which is nothing more than repetition. It doesn't help your child to play pieces like these if they can't read the notes. She was in no way ready for this piece and she looks to be struggling. Instead of making (or 'letting') your child practice for hours, she should have been playing with other kids and eating ice cream!

[LarsenPiano]

@ChopinEtudeLover Anna did read these notes. I cannot play this piece to show her. You have an oversimplified and dismissive view of Suzuki method common in the community. It's really about teaching the importance of listening, which musicians must work on all their lives. For violinists, especially children, it's incredibly important for their intonation. Most Suzuki students start learning to read music when they're around 5-6 years old, same time they're learning to read in school.

[dradulemihawk]

is that blood mark on the piano key?

[LarsenPiano]

I don't know if you mean the red stickers on the keys. It was an experiment to see if it would help make the connection between lines and spaces on the written score and the actual keyboard. It didn't really work.

[snipee911]

Turn auto gain off, it kills the dynamics. Or get a better mic

[LarsenPiano]

Wow, I wish you had told me that 4 years ago. Didn't know that. Thanks!

[waushh]

Playing piano should neither for being the youngest nor for being the fastest. Also, playing piano should not be for being loved by one's parents but for love to the music. If this girl loved this piece, she wouldn't have played it like a lumberjack. I don't claim to be a better pianist, but I think that I understand what Chopin intended. A wind that is playing with the snowflakes, where playing does not mean violence. btw, there should be an animated cartoon with this music. Is there one?

[RTCxK]

One of her parents is ASIAN.

[MrLisztian]

I've taught really talented kids like this... If they can practice Smart, mostly very slow for fast pieces... and MOST IMPORTANTLY... stay loose...and relaxed... they can do it!!!

[floydrharper]

This is brilliantly done. I've played piano for 50 years and I couldn't get through 4 bars of this - it's insanely difficult. Bravo !!!!

[rwcrx]

@LarsenPiano I think she's amazing!

[aviHiriyanna]

I'm seriously sick of music snobs attacking kids who happen to be very talented. Seriously, it's because of people like you this genre is slowly losing it's fan base. It's people like you who make potential pianists have aversion to playing and learning classical. Let live and learn everyone, music is out there to enjoy, save the criticism for the professional level players, not the works-in-progress! And also, it's an ETUDE,let the girl focus on technicality at this age, emotions can come later

[sirshitsalot007]

asian in disguise!

[SibelCatana1]

Beautiful! :)

[savvana12]

Just amazing I'm ten and I can't play it