Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
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Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
Hey hey,
I recently had the chance to play a real Boesendorfer grand at a friends place. Judging from sample libraries and meagre real experiences I had always thought that I disliked Boesendorfer grands. I stand corrected!
This is the F minor prelude from J.S. Bach's well-tempered Clavier, book II BWV881a:
https://youtu.be/LgXBgdL7-L4
It was recorded with a pair of Line Audio Design microphones in AB on a non-Linux system, which was just used as a live recorder. Some editing/comping and processing was added in Nama on my Linux machine.
Share and enjoy and feel free to give some feedback.
Best wishes, Jeanette
I recently had the chance to play a real Boesendorfer grand at a friends place. Judging from sample libraries and meagre real experiences I had always thought that I disliked Boesendorfer grands. I stand corrected!
This is the F minor prelude from J.S. Bach's well-tempered Clavier, book II BWV881a:
https://youtu.be/LgXBgdL7-L4
It was recorded with a pair of Line Audio Design microphones in AB on a non-Linux system, which was just used as a live recorder. Some editing/comping and processing was added in Nama on my Linux machine.
Share and enjoy and feel free to give some feedback.
Best wishes, Jeanette
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Re: Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
Very nice especially since you are not used to it!
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Re: Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
Must have been fun!
I don't have the ears nor the speakers to appreciate the difference, but there seem to be more dynamics and different timbres.
I don't have the ears nor the speakers to appreciate the difference, but there seem to be more dynamics and different timbres.
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Re: Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
I don't think it's so much a question of dynamics than reaction to the player and all the acoustic things a piano does, even though the higher end commercial libraries would also mimic that quite faithfully. But then all instruments are different and only adhere more or less to THE brand sound. While this particular piano could be warm, luscious and mellow, it also can be quite analytiic, brittle and strident. Just a joy to play, moreso perhaps than to listen to.oscillator wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:09 pm Must have been fun!
Oh it was!!!
I don't have the ears nor the speakers to appreciate the difference, but there seem to be more dynamics and different timbres.
Thanks for the nice feedback!
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An impressively sober tone and sound for this category (powerful assembly of 'chaotic good' and 'lawful evil') of instrument!
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Great performance, and an amazing piano sound / production as well. Must have been a thrilling experience to play.
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Many thanks and it was. I'm looking forward to do it again, with preparation.
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Re: Piano prelude (recorded on a real grand <3)
Beautifully played Jeanette!
I loved the ambience, the tiny timing fluctuations and the almost brittle sounds and fast decay of some of the high notes, the 'real' stuff that gets glossed over in piano sound libraries and sample packs or obliterated in 'on-grid' sequencing. Thanks for sharing!
I loved the ambience, the tiny timing fluctuations and the almost brittle sounds and fast decay of some of the high notes, the 'real' stuff that gets glossed over in piano sound libraries and sample packs or obliterated in 'on-grid' sequencing. Thanks for sharing!
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Such a pleasure to play a really nice instrument! I am less familiar with book 2, so I didn't know this piece. But in general, I think I could be satisfied to be stuck on a desert island forever with only Bach to listen to.
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Thanks for crushing our dreams to try and replicate a "realistic" piano sound with Salamander & co
Jokes apart, great playing: I'm not familiar with this piece, but it does scream "BACH!" from the first notes so I did enjoy it!
Jokes apart, great playing: I'm not familiar with this piece, but it does scream "BACH!" from the first notes so I did enjoy it!
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Thanks @Rainmak3r and @milo. I suppose something else that performance ouzes is Glenn Gould, so a rather distinctive interpretation, not everyone's cup of tea or way to read Bach.
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The only reference I know of Glenn Gould is from this hilarious Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) interview to Steve Martin (it's in the first 40s or so)jeanette_c wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:22 amThanks @Rainmak3r and @milo. I suppose something else that performance ouzes is Glenn Gould, so a rather distinctive interpretation, not everyone's cup of tea or way to read Bach.
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That clip was hilarious. Steve Martin couldn't even keep a straight face.
Glenn Gould is one of my favorites. What a brilliant eccentric he was! I remember the first time I heard his second recording of the Goldberg Variations. The CD had a single track, and I just closed my eyes and listened to the whole thing straight through while sitting at my kitchen table. A glorious music memory!
Glenn Gould is one of my favorites. What a brilliant eccentric he was! I remember the first time I heard his second recording of the Goldberg Variations. The CD had a single track, and I just closed my eyes and listened to the whole thing straight through while sitting at my kitchen table. A glorious music memory!
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Excellent play! Classica not dead! Be good if make video recording
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