Ever since we came back from our trip, my time has been measured by a very peculiar pace—the rhythm of music. You might say that following the rhythm is not an uncommon occurrence for a musician, and of course you are right. Rhythm is an integral part of music, along with melody and harmony; however, I mean literally.
My time, my life was marked by music, by practising my instrument, and by organising everything around lessons, rehearsals, gigs, and a lot of studying. First thing after the morning coffee: piano. Then piano and more piano. Maybe lunch, aaaand more of the same musical instrument in the form of lessons or practising again!
There is a certain addiction to studying and learning new (and old) pieces, as once you start discovering the sublime details and all the challenges under your fingers, there is no way back until you achieve at least the goals you set for that day. I can't say until perfection, as there is no perfection if you can always slightly (or significantly) change the way of perceiving and performing a piece.
Also, we can't talk about perfection, as I am still far from playing the piano accompaniments of pieces you will hear today in that way. But there is a lot of happiness that practising music gives! Also, listening to the music gives joy, so why not share with you as well these cool pieces?
Here they come, in this #TTT (Three Tune Tuesday) post, actually my very first post in this initiative. I hope your hearing will be thrilled while listening to Vivaldi.
Truth be told, my inner hearing is thrilled with it. Not my fingers with the piano accompaniment, though. 😂 Yesterday evening, after playing the piano for the whole day (all the Christmas repertoire that I will need very soon for the gigs and the piano accompaniments of several violin pieces that I need for my work), my right thumb started hurting. Am I old for this already?
No.
Yes, maybe I am.
But it was not the real reason my thumb started hurting. The piano accompaniment for this particular Violin Concerto in A minor by Vivaldi is not pianistically comfortable. You see and hear in the video a baroque orchestra and not just one piano (which in my case has to substitute the whole ensemble). It means that the piano part the pianist has to play is not originally written by the composer of the piece. Btw, it is very normal that the piano is used to substitute the whole orchestra or ensemble and accompany the soloist instrument, in my case, right now, string instruments.
I have always loved to play together with other musicians. It requires the sensibility to feel the other musician and his/her intentions in every moment, and at the same time, it provides more confidence while performing together on the stage. But it can also be just a rehearsal, and you feel over the moon as the music just came out so great while playing it together.
That is how we felt last Saturday after La Follia by Arcangelo Corelli came out relatively well. There is still work on it, though. And I doubt that the version we play will ever sound this spectacular as these musicians play (Hiro Kurosaki - violin, Alberto Martínez Molina - harpsichord and Ruth Verona - cello).
A lot of baroque music, right? 😁
Don't worry, it will change in no time, as for the third piece in this post, I am bringing something completely different. I don't want you to suffer from boredom; music is here to bring happiness.
So, what if I say Mariah Carey...? Which song would come to your mind?
Yeah!! A very catchy Christmas song!
It DOES have a connection with the previous two music pieces, as I am practising this one too! 🤣
Don't ask 😂. I will just say that I have a lot of fun playing it. 😉
