You know what I dislike about the development section in the first movements of sonatas? If you mess up in them, you can’t redeem yourself a second time. (The first movements of sonatas are split up into three sections: the exposition, development, and recapitulation; the exposition is traditionally repeated, which, in a way, gives you […]
Seeing as I recorded a bit of the Toccata in January, I feel it ought to be broadcasted more openly, so here it is. You may hear my amateur audio-editing of barbarically abrupt clipping between various sections; I had done up to seven retakes to weed out mistakes, and this recording is the compiled result. […]
Back in August 2012, a student came to me asking for help with a piano audition, including what music to play for it. A Romantic work was needed, so I went poking through Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, with which I am entirely unfamiliar, for a nice work for her to learn. In my browsing on IMSLP, […]
Here’s my performance of Sára Žalčíková’s Sonata in the 5th Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition’s semifinals, for which the work was commissioned, on September 30, 2012: This video is a result of my finally figuring out how to trim videos (pulled from the competition’s video archives) via the video editor Avidemux, through which I […]