Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Polonaise in A Flat 'Heroique'

[Xipe Totec]

Warning - Classical music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74fk9BTv5U

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Xipe Totec!

That "warning" just makes me want to hear it all the more!

Just wonderful...I hit the HD and the full screen, and I loved it!

Thank you, sweetie!

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

4. I had you in mind when I posted

I know how much you love fine music!

:hi:

[Dinger]

2. Those Left Hand Octaves Are Crazy

Totally fucking impossible. I've tried it, and can only get through one bar. Very, very, difficult piece of music to play.

[Xipe Totec]

3. She is unbelievable!

That video showing her left hand flying over the keyboard says it all.

I have fallen in love with her, as much as she has fallen in love with Chopin.

I am mesmerized by her skill.

[GaYellowDawg]

15. Darn right they are.

I couldn't do them, and I'm left-handed.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. Warning - more classical music

Same pianist, same composer, different tune:

Chopin - Valentina Igoshina -Fantasie Impromptu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0Z6g1XJkU&feature=related

[Xipe Totec]

7. Thank you! another one of my favorites! n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. Mine too.

The fantasie impromptu is also a difficult piece. It took me a while before I could play the first theme, with its 3 against 4 rhythm. It's hard to bring out voices that depend on accenting every fourth note in the right hand (or every sixth note in the left hand, as Moura Lympani used to do). It's hard not to play the left hand too loud in the second (lyrical) theme. It's hard to play the many repeats with sufficient variety. I could go on and on.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Sadly, she is a Chopin specialist

I would have loved to hear her play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. Or my personal favorite

Beethoven's Pathetique

[yellowdogintexas]

6. even more classical music this one is sheer f un

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJ3_n60d18

[Xipe Totec]

8. That was wicked funny

It's lovely to see talented people having fun!

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

10. I hoped someone would enjoy it. They were performing at the Van Cliburn

Amateur Competition that is held here in Ft Worth every 4 years. This was in 2007.

I stumbled over it looking for Jon Nakamatsu playing the Chopin piece, which alas is not on YouTube but is on a CD...it is meltingly beautiful.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Mmmm...

Thanks. Puts me in the mood for some Gould...

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. Beautiful!

Classical music is one of lifes great pleasures.

[rug]

16. Warning - photo of classical pianist