Working on this sonata now. The first movement is rather slow moving, especially in the transition from exposition to development, which makes it difficult to interpret. You do it justice though!

I'll always show up for Granados :)

Wondrous rarity.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

Bravo Chris!!! I hope your Gaveau wouldn't take offense, but I think this work of Bach's sounds best here on your Kawai.

Amazing. Great work! Thank you.

OMG what a surprise! #NotaDelTraductor Ya le doy play!

Wow i wasn't expecting this in my inbox, how amazing! Cant wait to listen

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This is very crisp! Now that I've heard your interpretation, I finally came to understand several tunes and they are beautiful. This is what pianists are for.

Your performance is so crisp. I thoroughly enjoyed your unique touch in Bartok's For Children. Thank you.

My father used to play this piece, along with "Marigold". It is great to hear it again. Thank you

I love how you change the picture on your piano for the composers

Fantastic playing❤

Spirited performance🎉

This is great🎉

Beautifull, your intepretation is really great despite the fact it's electronic piano This opus is underrated!

agreable a ecouter ! mai cette interpretation romantique et tres loin de la musique baroque ! pierre xavier de chassot .

I used to use these for site reading in my teens. So much better than Czerny!

Very nice and well played!

1.2; 1.3; 1.34; 1.35; 1.36; 2.12;

What a fantastic piece, it has very interesting harmonic paths and is structurally very well designed. It was cool to watch the score and your performance is simply excellent. Kawai's sound is so good here! Many greetings.

Congratulations to you ❤🎉 you did hard work

Wow, Chris, an absolutely powerful and breathtaking performance that had my attention from start to finish. I loved this! I played this Ballada a few years ago and decided to relearn it now! It's a difficult piece, and I always have the feeling that I can't master it completely, but it's always worth it. BRAVO!!!

It took your beautiful performance to get my attention that this even existed. I do have that Eric Parkin CD and despite his flawless delivery, this tune didn't register as any more or less outstanding than the other numbers on that disc. I revisted that particular track but it is yours to which I have returned numerous times since making this discovery. The ever so slight hesitation in your performance allows for those beautiful chords to fully register. Billy's carefully chosen notes are what makes this transcription pop. You sealed the deal when I discovered your equally outstanding rendition of another favourite, 'Praying Mantis'. Hoping you will record the tune which got me started on my journey of homage to Billy's fabulous repertoire. I am sure you would do 'Song of the Fir Tree' equal justice. Cheers!

Bravo Chris!

Bravo Chris!

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Bravo Chris!

Thank you for sharing this extraordinary music with us. I would have guessed it was composed later than 1911 with those spicy dissonances, though the influence of Debussy can still be heard. I think your interpretation and performance does Lili's creative genius full justice: bravo, Chris! (I'm hoping that in the coming weeks, my friend Andre in Brazil will perform my latest composition for piano since I remember you saying you thought I was neglecting to write pieces for this instrument!)

OMG! You brought to life this piece... Nice work!

Plenty of whole tone scales there. I knew Pierre Boulez around 1970 he has studied with Nadia, but I didn’t get a chance to ask him about working with her.

What an accomplishment. Thank you!

Nice pianoforte sound, dear colleague!

Brilliant

Hi Chris. Wow, I have been searching for many years the name and recording of this composition by Mr Ronald Stevenson, whom I met at Shanghai Music conservatory in 1987 or 1988. I was a post graduate foreign student studying Chinese music there. I don't know how I got hold of a copy of this score (not in entirety. Think just 1 and 2). Mr Stevenson had posted this written score prior to his visit there and he was hoping that perhaps one conservatory piano major student would learnt and performed for him. I can't remember how I got hold of a copy of this and due to it's oriental name. I was called to learn it. At the time I had no idea who Mr Stevenson was. When he arrived at the music conservatory, he had found out that none of the local Chinese piano students had learnt this composition. He was very disappointed. I don't remember now how he found out that I had learnt it and he offered me a one to one private master-class! It was a moment in time I will never forget. I assumed I may have taken a photo with him then but it was likely the photo was one of many blurred filmed photos i took. Mr Stevenson was a very kind, very friendly man. I am so honoured I not only got to meet him but got to have a private piano master-class with him.

This is brilliant, thank you! My Dad just sent me Book IV and I'm very much looking forward to learning it

I think your commentary on these two piano pieces by Puccini is very apt, Chris - and both performances are fabulous, played with your usual flair and verve: bravo! I particularly enjoyed the 'Piccolo Tango' and its opening, which sounds almost too modern for the first decade of the 20th century (I looked at the 'Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini' website and it states that the 'Piccolo Tango' (SC80) was also likely composed in 1907 or 1910).

Wonderful !

Great rendition, thank you so much! Incredibly beautiful piece.

Thank you for this! Currently I'm working on listening to all of Schubert's piano sonatas. I find them very difficult to understand (probably because I have been listening to them as if they were Beethoven sonatas), but I know that there is great depth waiting for me to explore. Unrelated, but it would be nice if you recorded a few of Dussek's piano sonatas. In particular, I love the Farewell and L'invocation sonatas. Some people say his music looks forward to Schubert, but I don't know Schubert well enough to say...

As Always, so nice to hear you #SiempreBach

Lovely playing of this distinctive Bach-Busoni Transcription. Also, a beautiful piano tone from the Kawai. Thank you..!

An exquisite performance: bravo, Chris! In Busoni's preoccupation with the music of Bach, you can see a merging of genius with grandiosity of style, where complex and challenging 'transpositions’ (using Busoni’s own substantive) became a remarkable way to show a pianistic style that was both modern and also emancipated from the Romantic tradition. Although Busoni respected Bach’s text with admirable fidelity, he intervened heavily on the texture of the music and concentrated upon reproducing the sonorities of the organ with a formidable re-disposition of the musical matter throughout the keyboard. The result was always stunning, with lines that almost seemed carved into the finest Carrara marble where highlighted contrasts served to heighten the dramatic impact of the music. I have read that Busoni was often called “the last Renaissance man”, though I was amused to learn that, thanks to his work as editor and transcriber, his name became inextricably linked to that of Bach to the extent that his widow, Gerda, was often introduced as “Mrs. Bach-Busoni”!

Fabulous playing, Chris. Busoni's piano transcriptions of Bach chorales are beautifully crafted to suit the instrument's expressive power. Bravo!

Excellent.....even with a couple of Horowitz touches, too......BRAVO from Mexico City!

Bravo, Chris!

Thank you for this. It is ravishing. I love to play transcriptions of Puccini's arias for the challenge of achieving a singing tone in the vocal melody. I find that having the human voice already in my head forces me to make the keys really sing the notes and have them stand apart from the accompaniment. Thanks too for providing a link to the sheet music for this , which I just downloaded. It used to be hard to come by free editions of Puccini's scores. Once I had to buy the entire score of "Turandot" with piano reduction just to get the aria "In questa reggia," and I still have not found a way to play both the vocal and orchestral parts in a number of passages. Fortunately, with this one it looks like a fairly simple task to include the vocal line in the right hand in the few places where the accompaniment does not follow it exactly. You did it, and it sounds wonderful.

WOW - stunning! A glorious performance of this Chopin masterpiece that captures all the emotion and passion in the music: bravo, Chris! As you remark, the piece is dedicated to one of his friends at the time, Baron Nathaniel Stockhausen, ambassador of the Kingdom of Hanover - and both the Baron and his wife took piano lessons from Chopin. That must have been quite something for the Baron and his wife, especially as you mention he confessed to Schumann that this piece dedicated to the Baron was his 'dearest work'!

A beautiful performance, Chris: bravo! I first fell in love with this aria when I heard it used in the soundtrack to the 1985 film, 'A Room with a View' - sung by the great Kiri Te Kanawa. The melodies and harmonies of Puccini never disappoint . . . and nor does your piano playing!

Third time coming to this video. Amazing performance! You deserve many more subscribers.