Albéniz: Tango in D from España (Tutorial & Performance Video)

[@128titanic]

Hi, Sally. Thank you for your video. Welcome.❤

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Sokwon, you are welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you. 🎵

[@ceciliahelenakruger330]

Thank you so much! I am studying this wonderful piece and your tutorial was very helpful and inspiring! I am 72 years old and have decided to go back to my piano studies after 42 years without playing and as you said this Music, as many others, can become our best friends at this sage of my life.Thank you again! Cecília forma Brazil.❤

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Cecilia, I am so touched by your beautiful words! Thank you for letting me know this tutorial was both helpful and inspiring. 🙏It is wonderful that you have returned to the piano after an absence of 42 years. It will be all the sweeter for you now. Music can be our "best friend" and I'm glad you feel this way too. I wish the very best to you and with your playing! May you savor this precious journey with music again in your life. 💖

[@ceciliahelenakruger330]

@@SallyChristianMusic thank you so much for taking the time to answer to my comment! I wasn´t really expecting it!!!! So nice!!! One question, if I may! How can I get that incredible analysis of the Tango in D???? Thank you again!!!!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Cecilia, you can order the charts from www.Sally Christian Music.com Thank you for your interest & all best wishes to you!

[@ceciliahelenakruger330]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you so much!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Cecilia, you are welcome, it is my pleasure! I’m so happy you now have your chart to work from! I wish you all the best with your playing! 💕🎹

[@donjohnson5661]

Always liked the bright and light touch of Albeniz, beautiful performance as always and man, that Bosendorfer!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Don, thank you for your enthusiastic and much appreciated words! I agree, this Bösendorfer with its crystalline clarity is from another world! With all best wishes to you.

[@bryanpersaud9947]

I had not heard Albeniz until now. It's so gentle and lyrical. Thanks for introducing me to this, Sally!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Bryan, thank you for your wonderful and much appreciated words! You are most welcome, it is my pleasure! I am delighted that this video introduced you to the enchanting world of Albéniz with all his heartfelt lyricism and gorgeous harmonies. With very best wishes to you. :-)

[@mdmher]

Thank you Sally. I feel much encouraged by your reason for learning this piece of music. Just what I'm looking for. A friend to accompany me through my life in later years.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello mdmher, thank you for your thoughtful and meaningful comment. I appreciate hearing that you resonated with my words about music being a companion and friend for us on our life journey. This has been so true for me and I'm glad to hear you feel this way as well. With all best wishes to you and with your music. 🎵

[@lucydych9474]

You are the best!!! Be well Beautiful teacher!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Lucy, thank you for your beautiful words which I really appreciate hearing! You are a very kind and generous person. :-) I will be well, and I wish the same for you!

[@manuelrodrigocanopiquer222]

WONDERFUL ! FROM SPAIN THANK YOU!!!!! 🌷🌼🌷🌼💐🌼💐🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🏵️🌼🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌼🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🌼🌹🍁🌹🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹🌴🌴🌹🌴😘🌴😘🌴🌴🌹🌴😘⭐😘🌼😘😘🌼😘🌼⭐😘😘🍃🍃😘🌷😘😘💐💐😘💐😘💐😘💐😘😘😘🌥️🌥️🍁🌹🌹🍁😘😘🌸🌸😘💮😘💮😘💮😘😘😘🌼😘🌼😘😘🌼🍁🍁🌹🍁🌹🍁🌹🍂🍂🌹🍂🌹🍂🌹👏🌹👏😘👏😘👏😘🌴😘🌴😘👏👏😘👏😘👏😘👏😘👏😘🍂👏😘👏😘👏😘👏😘👏🔥🍀🔥🍀🌪️🌼🌪️🌼🌼☔🌼👏👏🌼🌼👏🌼👏🌼👏🌼👏🌼🌼👏👏🌼👏🌼👏🌼👏🌼🌼👏🌼👏🌼🌼🌳🌼🌻🌼🌼😘⭐😘🍃🔥🌷🔥🌷🔥🍃🔥⭐🌵⭐🌵🌼🌻🌻🍀🌻🍀🍀🌻🍀🌻👏👏🌹👏❄️👏❄️🍂👏🌹👏👍👏🌴🌳🍀🔥⭐🔥⭐🔥⭐🔥⭐🌪️⭐🌪️⭐🌼😘🌼🌵🌼🌼🌹🌼🌼👍🌼👍🌼🌼🍁🍁🍁😘😘🌥️😘🌼😘🌼😘🌼😘🌼😘😘🌼😘🌼🌼⭐🌻⭐⭐🔥⭐🔥🔥🌷🌷🔥⭐⭐🍂🍂🍂🌹🍂🌹🍂🌹🍂🌹🌹⭐🌹⭐⭐🌹🌹⭐⭐🌹⭐🌹⭐🌹

[@SallyChristianMusic]

OMG! Hola Manuel, you have flooded the screen with love and kindness! Thank you so very much and for making my day equally bountiful! Muchas gracias! ❤💃🏻💝🌹

[@jimletizia1942]

Beautiful Sally. Your charts are so worth it. Such a labor of love. I’ve already downloaded mine. I love your presentation and performance/tutorial. Always the best and done with beautiful Precision and love. Thank you.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Jim, thank you for your exquisite and thoughtful words about this lesson, presentation, and the chart! I am so happy you now have your chart . :-) Yes, it is a labor of love making these, and especially the Color Structural Analysis. I look forward to hearing how easily you can learn and memorize this lovely piece with the additional help of your chart! Wishing you much joy “dancing with Tango in D,” and your ever-expanding understanding of this magnificent repertoire!

[@Littlepeter1]

Dear Sally, beautiful performance and insightful lesson. I want to thank you for all your contributions here on KZbin. Thanks to you I came across The Tarantella by Piaczonka, and also improved my rendition of Notturno by Grieg. You are helping people here with your teaching skills. Big thanks 💓

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Littlepeter1, I am so touched to read your beautiful comment. Thank you for your meaningful words of acknowledgement, and for letting me know these tutorials are helping you! Your generosity is so very much appreciated! Best wishes to you.

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Albéniz is very very beautiful 🎹👏 Thanks 🎶😘

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Lluís, thank you for your lovely comment about one of the loveliest pieces in the repertoire! I whole-heartedly agree that Albéniz is very very beautiful. He is one of my very favorite composers! Best wishes to you. :-)

[@mrsoftnessful]

Currently learning this piece rn. It's such a lovely piece. Definitely a good challenge for rhythm changes and musicality.

[@opticalmixing23]

Your playing brings me great joy and inspiration Sally. You play with great inner feeling!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello organicbrain, how wonderful it is to read your generous comment! It touches me very much that my playing brings you joy and inspiration. Your words are a gift for me.

[@opticalmixing23]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you 😊🙏 By the way. That is pretty cool you studied with Claudio Arrau. He was a passionate player

[@juanleahy2202]

As with the many other comments Sally, that was just an incredible profesional description of this emotional piece of music. I am going to have to watch & listen to this again & no doubt again, (let alone even try to attempt to learn to play it!). A wonderful presentation, absolutely full marks to you for all of this. With many thanks indeed. Saludos.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Juan, thank you for your gracious, thoughtful, and generous words! I so appreciate your acknowledgement about the lesson and presentation of this beloved piece. In preparing the chart package and lesson, I was amazed to discover how rich and subtle this piece really is under the guise of a seemingly straightforward composition. Bringing out the piquant "spices" will be a joy for you when you play this piece one day! With very best wishes to you and with your playing. ¡Olé!

[@TonyWinston]

Luv u Sally!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Tony, thank you for your lovely comment! I really appreciate your sweet words. :-) Best wishes to you.

[@annalustermann8159]

So delicious as usual!! Thank you for this wonderful lesson, Sally!! 🎶🎹❤️🥰

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Anna, thank you for your wonderful, delightful, and much appreciated words! You are very welcome, it is my pleasure! Wishing all the best to you. :-)

[@musicalintentions]

gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello musicalintentions / James, oh thank you so much for your very beautiful, heartfelt, and much appreciated words!

[@opticalmixing23]

...And you are too. I love you 😍💗

[@robertdepiano]

Hello Lady Sally. I was already starting to miss you, and here you are 😁 A beautiful piece, beautifully played. Unfortunately, it's too difficult for me, but maybe I'll come back to it one day. Thank you for this music. Greetings 🥀

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Robert, what a lovely and dear comment, ... thank you! I do hope that one day you will be able to play this delightful piece! Best wishes to you. :-)

[@robertdepiano]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you :)

[@ginafazio318]

Oooh the beloved Tango. Wonderful to hear albeit bittersweet As always, fantastic tutorial

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi Gina, oh, thank you for your enthusiastic words about this beloved (yes!) Tango, and your responses to the lesson! I love the dissonances he sprinkles throughout. Although they are on the gentle side, they do hint of an undercurrent of bitterness. I hope you will play this piece, and teach it as well. May its sweetness sway with our spirits!

[@opticalmixing23]

Yea! Yes! He was a kind gentle man. Thank you!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@opticalmixing23 Absolutely! He gave a gift for us all! :-)

[@opticalmixing23]

I would've loved to go to the carnival with this composer and laugh some with him

[@stephenrhyner5624]

Thank you. This really helped me in playing this piece.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Stephen, thank you for your very kind words! I really appreciate hearing that this tutorial was helpful. 🎵 I wish you much joy playing this delightful piece!

[@michaelroybal9310]

You are a treasure and a God send.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Michael, I am so touched to read your beautiful and heart-warming comment, ... thank you! Your exquisite words are deeply appreciated! With all best wishes and blessings to you. :-)

[@opticalmixing23]

I love this vid!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Awesome, ... this is so nice to hear! :-) Thank you!

[@karolinapek4461]

Beautiful. I will study your videos as a project as I am playing through some works by Albeniz now. Yes, the "cantos ida y vuelta" came from the Hispano new world back to Spain evolving. Also, to note that that in Flamencology there is a seperate "tangos" form as well and they are different in the different areas such as in Seville (i.e. Tangos de Triana) and in Granada (where it takes on an oriental flavour). I'm going to start studying Azulejos maybe next year or the one after. I hope you might think about doing a Tutorial on it.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Karolina, thank you for your wonderful and informative comment! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge about Flamencology and the different kinds of tangos depending upon the regions they came from. This makes so much sense. Thank you also for your suggestion for a tutorial on Azulejos. I am interested in learning this piece hauntingly beautiful piece. It is so intriguing that Granados finished it, and we do not know exactly where in the piece his manuscript begins. I only wish Granados had been able to complete Albéniz's Navarra as well. I wish you all the best with your playing and your learning of the mysterious, gorgeous, and seldom played Azulejos. 🎵🌹

[@stargazertress777]

Thank you for doing this.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Ivy, thank you for your kind words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you.

[@loving-everyone-equally]

☆☆☆☆☆ No time for the tutorial, but like your performance of a great composition.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Alton, thank you for your lovely words and five stars! I hope you enjoy the tutorial when you have a chance to watch an in-depth analysis of this charming piece. :-) All best wishes to you.

[@ukGunther]

❤️🥰❤️ thank you

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello ukGunther, thank you for your kind words and hearts! You are most welcome, ... it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you.

[@KatjaSchramm-y4k]

Dear Mrs. Christian, I send you a fragrant bouquet of beautiful flowers and wish you a happy new year! Would you please, in return, blow over the seas to me a little bit of your talent, that amazing dedication to music, your hard-working ability and impressive mind-power? - You are a role model that I will never achieve, but who encourages me to persevere, even when the going gets tough. So thank you! - By the way I adore when you play Albeniz! Latin in general! - Otra vez: ¡un buen año nuevo y que Dios la bendiga! - Saludos desde Baviera

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Dear Katja, thank you for your exquisite and generous words! 💐 I appreciate the boquet of fragrant flowers, and the equally sweet message that you have given me! I am touched by your beautiful acknowledgements, and also very happy to be a role model of encouragement, dedication, and perseverance to your art. 🙏 BTW: Your appreciation for the Albéniz videos I have made is music to my ears! I send all best wishes and blessings to you and with your playing! ¡Les deseo mucha salud y muchas bendiciones durante todo el nuevo año! 💫

[@andrewfortmusic]

Your interpretations of Albeniz are absolutely wonderful and touching, and the way you teach is so bright and lively! Your videos are and will continue to be an important source of insight to me--likely more as a composer than as a performer. The way you describe melodic and harmonic lines makes them so graspable yet magical. I absolutely had to subscribe as soon as I saw your episode on Solfeggietto, and I'll be watching your content whenever I can. Also, as a side note, do you play any Ravel? Your Albeniz series reminded me of Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole a bit and of the story behind his Jeux d'eau (which he wrote after being inspired by Albeniz) I would be curious to hear your ideas of some of his work!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Andrew, ... wow, … I am so grateful to read your articulate and exquisite comment and your gracious words about my Albéniz interpretations. Your words almost dance on the page for me! I am deeply moved to hear that the lessons are "so graspable yet magical,” and that as a composer you are also gaining insights from them. When I delve deep into a piece with the analysis and lesson, I feel a heightened kinship and awe for the mind and heart of the composer. :-) Regarding Ravel, yes, I do play much of Ravel's piano music and have made a CD of some of his pivotal works, including Jeux d'eau. It is uncanny that you should mention this piece now, as I have been seriously considering it for my next project to engrave and teach. Thank you for your timely suggestion which gives me a boost of energy and momentum! With many best wishes to you and much joy with your composing!

[@andrewfortmusic]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you! I’m always glad to offer encouragement and compliments to people! I would absolutely love to hear you analyze and play Jeux d’eau! To be honest, I’m surprised I haven’t come across your channel before yesterday, because I really enjoy listening to analyses of classical music! Regardless, I’m very glad you showed up in Recommended! Thank you for the well wishes-I’ve been writing furiously these past few months! Also, I will seek out your Ravel recordings! It’s clear you understand and feel music deeply, and I’m looking forward to hearing your interpretations!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@andrewfortmusic Thank you Andrew, your words are much appreciated! I'm glad you are "composing furiously," especially as we are all still in the isolating conditions of the pandemic. Music is all the more a lifeline and a blessing for us in these times!

[@andrewfortmusic]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you, and I agree. How blessed we are to have ears!

[@fransaxby5663]

I loved this tutorial. How do I go about receiving the digital download of your coloured structural analysis?

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Fran, thank you for your enthusiastic words about this video! You can receive the digital download charts, including the Color Structural Analysis from my website by clicking on any Order Now button. If you look just below the title of this video, you will also see the link: Order Chart Now: store.payloadz.com/u/sallychri... This will take you to my PayLoadz Storefront. Click on the blue See More button at the top right corner and then scroll down until you find the thumbnail of the chart you are interested in purchasing. I hope this helps, and thank you for your interest in the tutorials and pdf engravings. With best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵

[@josenildo2189]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 wonderful

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you Jose! I can feel and hear the energy and enthusiasm of your applause! ... I love it! All the best to you.

[@rgriffith6476]

Can you do a video like this on Chopin's Winter Wind etude? I think it's Op. 25 No. 11. Pretty pretty please!!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Reece, yes, the Winter wind is Op. 25, No. 11. This is a very demanding tour de force etude that requires great strength, conditioning, and stamina to play well. I played it years ago as part of my daily warm-up routine along with many of the other 24 Chopin Etudes. While I have quite a few Chopin pieces already in process for future video recordings, I will add your request to the queue of videos for the more distant future. :-) Best wishes to you.

[@rgriffith6476]

@@SallyChristianMusic I would super appreciate it!!! I have trouble reading music with so many accidentals

[@sagemaster3408]

I love the way you play this piece . So pretty. I do have a question though and I’m assuming that u add this accent on purpose . And i love it. But, I wonder where u have picked this up or is it something u just have added yourself. At about 1:34 , it’s sounds to me you have added a quick accent . Or maybe my sheet music just doesn’t show it . Ty for you great work

[@sagemaster3408]

Also couple other times after that.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello sagemaster3408, thank you for your warm and enthusiastic words about this video and the playing! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. To answer your question about the "accent" around 1:34, this is the downbeat of measure 34 where Albéniz has unexpectedly modulated to F# Major. There is a diminuendo mark right after this chord, so I choose to give this beautiful F# Major chord a little emphasis so the chord will "bloom." This also gives us a moment to savor the tonality along with the molto ritard. Then I can drop the volume down to the pianissimo mark that Albéniz indicates in the next measure 35. I hope this answers your question! Best wishes to you. 🎵

[@martiglesias60]

Youre right. Its not from Argentina!