Week 3: Music is Music!
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Schumann's Traumerei (Jan 18 Final Submission)
I thought I'd record one last version of this piece that has been the focus of my practice during most of this challenge.
I also have changed my usual microphone placement on this video and the previous one above - let me know if they sound better than my other recordings.
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As I previously posted, I have been working on two arrangements of Astor Piazzolla's pieces from his Tango Opera, Maria de Buenos Aires. The first piece was Alevare which I posted last week and the second is Poema Valseado (Poetic Waltz). Poema Valseado tells the story of Maria wandering through the streets of Buenos Aires as she falls deeper into the dark side. Here is the final stanza of Poema Valseado from the libretto by Horacio Ferrer.
"I am Maria from Buenos Aires
Maria from Buenos Aires, I'm my city!
Maria tango, Maria of the slums
Maria night, Maria fatal passion,
Maria of the love of Buenos Aires
It's me!
Again, the arrangement was done by Agustin Carlevaro, who arranged at least 20 Astor Piazzolla pieces for solo guitar. The challenge in playing this piece is to capture the dark poetic nature of the music by playing it very legato while trying to minimize left hand string noise.