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In the USSR there was a popular radio program: "Concert consisting of requests of radio listeners." Many listened to it with pleasure. I want to do a similar Internet concert on my page. I invite everyone who is interested in my music to write requests at the bottom of this page (in the co...

https://vk.com/video487582480_456239032 Tchaikovsky's Children's Album is one of the most popular works in the world. Every pianist on the planet has probably played at least some pieces from this album. The album consists of 24 pieces, most of which are known, loved and, of course, played in every ...

Triplets are quite tricky. Accent can on be on ANY of three notes of the triplets.

Today, many music schools and bad teachers stamp musicians with the same defect. They teach all musicians (including singers) that notes on the counts "one" and "three" must be louder than others. If you are going to perform all your life only soldiers' songs and marches, then yo...

Stresses in lyrics and in music of the song USUALLY do not coincide. They should be different. Otherwise singing turns into speaking like it usually happens, for example, when children sing "Jingle Bells". They sing only first vowel in the bar and then just speak all the rest syllables of ...

You do not need to listen to all 25 songs, of course. You can choose just something of your interest: for example, only Old McDonald and Happy Birthday To You or only Bach's and other Baroque works, or only jazzy pieces. It is entirely up to you. Each piece is recorded TWICE. The first time - it is ...

Recently, a "young piano teacher" sent me recordings of 20+ songs along with the question: why do they sound boring, although all the notes and rhythm are perfectly correct? In all these recordings, I found only ONE the same mistake that almost all pianists make today. But this mistake, as...

I wish you good luck in making friends with "Fur Elise".
If you have any problem - let me know here or by email
vladimir_and_ music@yahoo.com

I am going to test a project of teaching on the Internet.

Let's imagine that you are a composer and you demand in court to exact (collect) $ 100,000 from me for defaming your good name and undermining your business. You claim that I'm doing this, playing fake notes and a fake rhythm on my record of your composition. I say that I play everything exactly as ...

I always say that a musician should be able to read sheet music and understand what is written by the composer. But today people are laughing at such naive people, they say that it's much easier to take a recording of a celebrity and just copy by ear what sounds on celebrity's record. Recently, five...

The only recording  in the world of Schumann's "Traumerei" at the correct,  AUTHENTIC  "Tempo = 100",  indicated  by Schumann instead of the usual "tempo for funeral". Can we imagine that instead of light-hearted,  joyful  "Jingle Bells"  everyone in the world...

Dear Andrew, Thanks for this very interesting information. I could not listen to yourScriabin because it always says to me: Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest flash player. I downloaded this LATEST FLASH PLAYER 4 times - it say...

Dear Andrew, Maybe these quotes from my correspondents will be interesting for you and other Forum readers. By the way, I am still waiting for your comments on "STYLE" as a LASH OF SLAVERY"! All the best! Vladimir "A lot of what you are saying sounds like Godowsky's teaching meth...

Dear Andrew, Thank you for your listening to my recordings and your comments. I do not object them - it is a FUN for me to play with LEFT accentuation for a change. And, probably, I pay too much attention to this variant forgetting the necessary ballance between both paterns. Do you know: all of us-...

Habitual accents (without thought) are usually a negative thing, regardless of what beat they arrive on. A vocal line is not a series of strong or weak points. It's a smooth line that usually leads to one particular peak. A feel for connection between notes, that is developed by careful listening, ...

Dear Andrew, Thank you very much for your very deep-inside and interesting answer. Tell me please, what would you recommend for the person, who overdeveloped his Right arm and leg, while the opposite arm and leg have practically no muscles and are just hanging from the body without any use? This is ...

Formerly:The meaning and importance of “STYLE” in performance. Now revised and complete. (Personal experience: very long and very boring like always) Before 1981 I had a fantastically nice and interesting life: I was a pianist free-lancer. Everyone knows that two things always poison our life: our b...

I am free - you are not ! You are brainwashed – I am not ! You are still under musical ‘Soviet’ occupation ! I want to discuss the problem that undermines and ruins our business like nothing else does on Earth. At the same time, this problem is still “invisible” for many pianists. Question : Can a p...

Congratulations! We just made history. (“For Elise”, “Moonlight” by Beethoven). Dear Colleagues, First of all, please allow me to congratulate each of you who answered my questions, as well as this wonderful Forum and myself, because in the last week we altogether started at least a new chapter in t...

My performing and teaching work is based on an accurate indication of Note Strength. Without playing, just by looking at any score for the first time, any of my student or choir member (my other work - chorus master in opera companies) can say about each note - whether it should be played louder or ...

I am used to an accurate indication of note strength in my teaching and performing work. (By this I mean that my students and me always know about each particular note in any sequence of notes or chords, whether this note should be played louder or softer in relation to the previous and the followin...