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Classics?

PostPosted: 17 Apr 2005, 03:22
by scielle
So I've been wondering - does Diana have a classical piano repertoire? I know she started with the Royal Coservatory program, but does she still have any Rachmaninoff/ Chopin/ Debussy hidden up her sleeve?
Just curious.
(I've been trying to find out via Michelle and been diligently checking the 'question of the week' section, but no luck so far, so I thought I'd try here and see if any of you happen to be in the know, since some around here have encyclopedic DK knowledge.)
Thanks guys. :cool:

PostPosted: 20 Apr 2005, 05:05
by keylargokid
Now that you maention it I would love to here Diana covering the Rachmaninov piano concertos. :idea:

PostPosted: 20 Apr 2005, 13:28
by lukenimbus
I believe she does. There was a review [Warsaw] posted here a while back where DK played some Chopin [mazurkas] amongst her pieces.

PostPosted: 20 Apr 2005, 14:31
by smooth_jazz_
It was only musical quotation form Chopin's Mazurkas, maybe she knows jazzy versions by pianists Leszek Mozdzer or Andrzej Jagodzinski- their albums with music of Chopin in jazz style are well known all the world., and I know, that Diana listen some Polish artists :) And... You can hear it soon ;)

PostPosted: 20 Apr 2005, 14:57
by scielle
There are very few people on this planet who can really play Rachmaninoff, and I'm not expecting DK to be one of them - I'm merely wondering what her favourites are in the classical catalogue. Anyone who has studied the piano for as long as she has must have a somewhat different and more in-depth appreciation of the history of the music than your average lay person, which is why I'm wondering what she'd recommend for my classical playlists (which are mighty lengthy as it is, mind you...) :mrgreen:

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 14:42
by smooth_jazz_
I think she would be great in Bach, cause her technic of playing is great :) Not in Chopin, Liszt or Rachmaninov- she played to much... heavy.

Bach

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 17:31
by verena
Agree on Bach, Smooth. Some partitions must be strong exercice for one who's good enough (pieces from "le piano bien tempéré" I am thinking, sorry don't have English translation). Quite likely to turn a talented pianist into a technical perfection.

Anyway, I love Bach, but I had rather DK would stay concentrated on what she is doing now : Writing songs with husband, and delivering drop dead life versions of her favorite standards.
At least for the moment please. :pray:

(Xmas songs wellcome, provided do not delay the rest, first of all next TOUR !!!).

V

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 19:06
by scielle
"le piano bien tempéré"


Well-tempered clavier.

Classical favourites

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 19:42
by verena
Thank you for the translation, Scielle. By the way in French, your name means "sky". (It is written "ciel" but I assume pronunciation is somewhat similar). Does Scielle have a particular meaning ?

Quoting you : "wondering what her favourites are in the classical catalogue". I would also be interested actually, am always after ideas in this department.

V

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 21:51
by smooth_jazz_
In Polish "Klawesyn dobrze temperowany", but we use original version: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier... :)

Anyway, I love Bach, but I had rather DK would stay concentrated on what she is doing now : Writing songs with husband, and delivering drop dead life versions of her favorite standards


Yes, of course... I say only about her technic, because I'm classically trained pianist (I finished school last week with diploma!) :)

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 23:11
by Andrea
My congratulations, smooth_jazz_ :congrats

PostPosted: 21 Apr 2005, 23:46
by verena
Yes, congratulations Smooth !!! "S' Wonderful" :up:

I am not a pianist (teacher put me off radically when I was a little girl), but was also struck by the technique.

Just could not help but adding some comments of mine; Off topic I admit.

V

PostPosted: 22 Apr 2005, 01:37
by scielle
By the way in French, your name means "sky".

Yeah, "scielle" is my net alter-ego. It was originally supposed to be a 'ciel' hotmail address, but that was taken so I phonetically made up something like it, and it stuck. In real life I go by Zula or Zuza, short of the Polish version of Suzanne, which has something to do with lilies, I believe. By the way, mon français n'est pas au même niveau que mon anglais, mais je le comprends bien! C'est dommage que les discussions sur la section 'Vie en rose' sont tellement rares.
:idea:
I'm classically trained pianist (I finished school last week with diploma!)

Hej - gratuluję! :party: Gdzie się uczyłeś?

I've got 10 years of Royal Conservatory under my belt, though you would never guess coz I'm quite awful at it. Love to play for self and family, but those Kiwanis festivals were the bane of my existance...
I used to teach piano for a while, actually, several years ago. It was my part-time job while in high-school; teaching piano to kids with developmental disabilities. I haven't actually played for quite a few years now, b/c I couldn't afford to take my piano with moi to university. :|

Debussy and Ravel have always been my favourites, by the way.

PostPosted: 22 Apr 2005, 06:56
by keylargokid
I tend to prefer those moody Russians whether it is Rachmaninov's Second Symphony or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but beyond what Diana may say about the classics I would also be curious about her input concerning other forms of music whether it be country rock or blues.

PostPosted: 22 Apr 2005, 09:57
by smooth_jazz_
Andrea, verena- thanks :D

scielle- dzieki wielkie :) W czestochowskiej Szkole Muzycznej, chodzilem tam 12 lat, w koncu cos z tego mam (ale jak pewnie wiesz, w Polsce poziom w takich szkolach jest duzo wyzszy niz na Zachodzie) :-P Robilem 2 instrumenty- organy koscielne i fortepian klasyczny oraz (nie na dyplom, ale zawsze) emisje glosu, wiec moze i jakis wokalista ze mnie bedzie- pierwszy recital wokalny juz 19 maja! :) A na razie matury- juz po polskim i angielskim ustnym... :)
And my favourite composer is... Debussy (Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune, Rapsodie per Sassofono!). On my diploma from history of music I must recognize Feux d'Artifice piano prelude ;) So it was very simple and nice :D

PostPosted: 22 Apr 2005, 19:53
by verena
There I quote you Keylargokid "I would also be curious about her input concerning other forms of music whether it be country rock or blues."
Coudn't agree more, Kid. Are you actually from Key Largo ?

Off Topic comment :
I have an extremely vivid and frustrated memory from there. Key Largo.
Once I was driving down from Miami to Key West on an off day with some French guy from work, and I was dying to see that joint by the water where the movie Key Largo was filmed. Guy was behind the wheel, and guess what, he was strongly against any loss of time, cause he wanted to fly straight down as fast a he possibly could. I had to get very bossy to obtain my stop, and then he would not let me spend more than 15 minutes into the place. After that he absolutely refused to stop again, irking me in a massive way.
I couldn't understand the behaviour. Did not seem to me that visiting Hemingway's house and strolling around would be taking that much time down there.
Well you know what ? He wanted to dash to Key West, because he thought there was a fantastic Hawaiian kind of beach there ! What he got were troubled waters at the foot of a "road" sign marking the direction of CUBA...
And he was the one living in Miami. Could have stayed in South Beach for that matter. Stupid fellow. :evil:

Back to topic : very honoured that Scielle and Smooth should like Debussy and Ravel. I like them both, but between the two I have a preference for Samuel Barber (ha ha ha... Stupid girl).

V

PostPosted: 22 Apr 2005, 20:40
by smooth_jazz_
verena, I think, that French music (classical, impression, piano jazz) and great composer like Chopin or Stravinsky written their the best notes in Paris :D

PostPosted: 23 Apr 2005, 17:43
by verena
Oh Smooth, that's awfully kind. :angel:
I don't know much about that. You are the learned one !

V

PostPosted: 24 Apr 2005, 04:58
by keylargokid
verena

Never Been to Key Largo, but what can I say I'm a hopeless romanatic and choose the name from the Borgart film. I was in Miami when I was five but that's all I can say about Florida, As far as other music, at least up here last year, Ollabelle opened for her. Great folk/bluegrass/gospel.

BOBD

Bluegrass

PostPosted: 24 Apr 2005, 23:50
by verena
Bluegrass ? Never heard of that kind of blues (or grass ?). :?

Hey Scielle, best of luck for your exams ! I have a hunch you will get along very well...

Verena
"DianaKrallThe Time" :cool: