Yes all these brands build great instruments. The final choice is a matter of taste.

Thank you for your comment. Visiting Steingraeber factory was great. Ugo Steingraeber spent most of the afternoon guiding us in the factory even thought he new that I would only ever buy one grant like this. I had the choice between 2 similar B192. Both were great but I instantly preferred the one I bought. Moving around the grands in the room for a second trial after the visit did not change my choice. Honestly I would have been more than happy with the other one too. Steingraeber grands are very consistant in their sound character even comparing different size models. I am glad I did buy it 10 years ago because its price increased by a factor of two while my salary did not!

@@Pleyel204 yes, prices increased a lot in the last years! Do you use any social media? Would be nice to connect and discuss pianos

Actually I am a bit old fashioned I do not use social media (expect youtube) , sorry.

Vielen dank

Thank you very much for your kind comment. I hope you like my other videos also.

Yes you 're right. Actually at that time period it was quite usual for composers to copy transform rewrite etc... other composer's works. I read somewhere that Bach did know Fischer's works and did like them.

Thank you for your very kind comment. I would be happy to listen to your interpretation. I am not sure you should try to change your way of playing this piece. Usually when I try to do that it does not work. Listening to my own recording is very useful. I try to improve it until I do not dislike it to much. But even when I upload a recording it is still quite far from the ideal sound I have in my mind!

Thank you very much. I hope you will like my other videos too.

Merci. C est un grand classique! Je le joue aussi sans le play back. C'est un morceau magnifique même sans orchestre.

Je suis très content qu'il te plaise, c'est un de mes préférés. Tout un opéra en 4 min! Cette pièce mériterait d'être plus connue. Les transcriptions pour piano que Grieg a fait de ses oeuvres pour orchestre sont vraiment superbes. Encore merci.

Merci beaucoup. Grace à toi je réécoute mes enregistrements, ce que je fais rarement. Je le trouve mieux réussi que le Bach -Vivaldi!

Oui c'est une très belle pièce. J’attends avec impatience d'écouter votre version!

Bonsoir Clothilde. Merci pour le compliment! C'est Mac Dowell qui m'a fait trouver ta chaine. J'ai forcément remarqué ton nom et tout de suite reconnue sur les vidéos. Par contre je ne savais pas si c'était ta chaine ou celle de ton duo. Très sympa votre duo et tu chantes toujours aussi bien! Je suis heureux de voir que tu vas bien. A bientôt.

​@@Pleyel204merci.. Mets nous quelques likes, cela fait toujours plaisir ! D'autant plus que la vie a ete particulièrement cruelle ces derniers temps pour nous.. 😢 Merci.. A bientôt

Oh je suis désolé pour vous. Bon courage...

@@Pleyel204 merci beaucoup 😥

Thank you. I hope you will like my other videos too.

Thank you for your kind comment. I hope you will like my other videos too.

Thank you very much. Do not hesitate to listen to my other Grieg recordings. I hope you will like them too.

Thank you very much. I am glad you like it. Actually I also discovered this composer quite recently. His Chaconne that I recorded earlier is great also.

Thank you very much. I am pleased that you like it.

Some people like some other people do not like. That's the concept of art!

Thank you for your kind comment. For me the 6 is much more straight forward than the 1. The 6 is probably the easiest of the four preludes op11 I played.

@@Pleyel204 Thank you for your response. I’ve been considering trying number 6 and 5 as well. I played number 14 many years ago and it was fairly straightforward and a lot of fun.

Well the process was quite straight forward. I liked the sound of my old Pleyel grand but the action made more and more problems. So I had the choice between rebuilding the Pleyel or buying a new one. To try to decide I went to the piano shops near my town as well as in all the towns I did travel to in order to test as many pianos as possible. And when I tried a Steingraeber piano I thought "that's the one"! Concerning the size nowadays 190 cm is about the magic size above which you can get a good equilibrium between the piano registers. Actually the Steingraeber 192 compares well to the 210 cm grands in other brands. Even the small Steingraeber A 170 is amazing. But whatever the piano brand the longer the better that's basic physics! Choosing the brand is a matter of taste. All pianos are different but each brand has its specific character. I hope it helps.

Merci beaucoup pour ce commentaire enthousiaste. Je fais de mon mieux et je suis heureux si ca apporte du plaisir aux auditeurs.

Thank you I am happy you like it

Thank you. It is not as flawless as I expected but I am happy you find it charming.

thank you

Thank you for your kind comment

Thank you very much. And I agree, now I would probably play a bit faster the slow parts!

Thank you very much for your kind comment.

Thank you very much. I hope that you like my other videos too.

The score I used is in E minor, but indeed I also saw versions in C minor. Thanks for asking.

@@Pleyel204 yes, in fact the original key for the lute is in C minor, which in my view is much more beautiful. thanks to you instead for answering me. Greetings, Roberto.

you're welcome!

Thank you but I am not sure my neighbours will agree with you ;-) In which country do you live?

@@Pleyel204 the United States

@@lindsaymarin2772 That's a bit far away! But keep in touch I should upload new videos soon.

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much this kind comment. I am very pleased if it can help. Best wishes.

Thank you. Yes they are great instruments. Especially when considering that mine is less than 2m long. I think that it sounds better than many longer ones. I see that you have a great Blüthner. Old Blüthners have a really great sound but I was a bit disappointed by the new ones.

PPS: Here is a link to the above mentioned older but very beautiful harpsichord recording by William Christie, which in my opinion is still unsurpassed in its elegance and depth of feeling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJKsiY2kecZ6odk

Thank you for your very kind comment. There are indeed many wonderful pieces in these suites. Thank you for the link. It is really a great interpretation. Concerning the level of the recording, actually I do not perform any post processing of my recordings. What you hear is a direct, single shot, recording. The recording level has been adjusted so that when playing fortissimo it is only few dB below saturation. The full dynamic of the piano is therefore reproduced and is not compressed like in most modern recordings including classical recordings. An excess of dynamic compression is something I do not like at all and gives, I think, a completely unrealistic rendering of the music. In the same idea my recordings' left / right panning (done by the mics placement) is done from the listener point of view and not from the pianist point of view (treble in the right and bass in the left). Panning the music from the pianist point of view gives also , I think a very unrealistic rendering. I struggled ( still do ) quite a lot to obtain a result I like (lately changing from XY to NOS) but my recording configuration becomes more and more consistent. Actually there is much more to say about recordings set up, it is a very interesting topic, but this is already a long answer. Cheers. Christian.

Many Thanks

Thank you

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Hope you will like it!

@@Pleyel204 As you have accustomed us, very good interpretation, great expression, each note has its right feeling. thanks for your videos

Wouah, thank you, I am wordless

Thank you for your comment. You can get the Music minus one playbacks from the webpages of musicdispatch. Or buy second hand cd or LP on ebay or other similar websites.

Thank you very much. I hope you also like the other parts of the concerto.

Yes I like the music of Scriabin. A complete story in a one page score!

Thank you for your comment and your advice. I really enjoyed playing Fischer's music but did not know what else to play from this composer. I will look for the these scores, keep in touch.

I bought the full set of Fischer's Musicalischer Parnassus and discovered that this Chaconne belongs to the suite called Melpomene. Yes the Chaconne and Passacaglia look really nice. For the moment I am in a Rachmaninov and Scriabin series but stay in contact I will come back to Fischer afterwards.

@@Pleyel204 I'm glad you discovered Fischer's Parnassus Suites through my tip, which are unfortunately relatively unknown, but nonetheless very rewarding. I wish you a lot of fun with Rachmaninov and Scriabin and I am looking forward to hearing your versions of the Chaconne and Passacaglia from the Euterpe and Uranie Suites, because these two works are among the best examples that the genre Chaconne/Passacaglia from the Baroque period has to offer.

Not yet the pieces you recommended but for information I just uploaded the prelude of the Clio Suite. So simple and so beautiful!

@@Pleyel204 Yes, Fischer's collection "Musikalischer Parnassus" contains many nice pieces, besides the final movements of the Euterpe and Uranie Suites that I recommend. The latter are technically demanding and not easy to learn, so one needs some perseverance and patience. But also the smaller works from the collection are musically very rewarding. Thank you for your commitment to this music, which is unfortunately still too little known, although it deserves more recognition.

Thank you very much. Do not hesitate to watch my other videos. I hope you will like them too. Cheers