double trouble
Well, folks, this time it's 4 hands again but 2 pianos! I have a friend with 2 pianos who suggested we do a piece together. She is a truly fine pianist and I'm very excited to be playing with her.
My piano teacher helped me find a really fun piece by Wilhelm Friedrich Bach - one of the younger Bach sons. This music is neat for a couple of reasons. The interplay between the 2 pianos is really delightful. It alternates between the pianos echoing the other -- working a little motif back and forth up to some climax, and the pianos playing hand in hand -- playing little runs and arpeggios up and down the keyboard a 3rd apart. The other neat thing about this piece is that the music bridges Baroque and Classical. There are clean melodies and classical harmonies, but it is filled out with all of the trills and frills associated with the Baroque. I've never played a piece with so many trills. That will be the main challenge, to get our trills to play nicely with each other.
I look forward to performing this for my friends, but much of the pleasure is in the practicing together. I feel lucky to have found yet another person to make music with.
Posted at
05:40PM Feb 12, 2007
by Julia Harper in Personal |
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