Does this have better audio? And/or does it draw more attention to the piano’s and my limitations? I plugged in a USB microphone. Only thing I’m sure of is to turn up the gain.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109123178577633382

The marionettes from Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 are apparently each representing a nation and/or culture, so let’s expect some of the names to have aged poorly. For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, #3 is relatively okay: Spanierin (~“Spanish Lady”).

https://youtu.be/q02M6HRH2CQ

#pianominiatures #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109122639939085919

Where we threw our symbolic bits of bread.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109119127371647264

Next in the #Bortkiewicz Op. 54 Marionetten is #2, Der Kosak (“The Cossack”). #pianomusic #dailypiano #pianominiatures #pianominiature #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/pooHwEEMotE

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109117260501941006

@nikita my favorite wrong answer to this question is https://m.youtube.com/c/PronunciationManual (sorry, I don’t know a right answer)

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109115550156501859

@mwlucas Sweet. Happylations!

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109111284844714674

@susannah 💖

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109111069654610923

I know, I know, it’s already been a few #dailypiano weeks of #Bortkiewicz. But I keep finding lovely sets of #pianominiatures to get into. Let’s get into another: the Op. 54 Marionetten, starting with Russisches Bauernmädchen (“Russian Peasant Girl”). #pianomusic #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/7yhuoAQe21s

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109110773167708583

@jer_ congrats! I’m thinking about a similar change in role

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109106442139713205

We’ve heard Bortkiewicz’s setting of Andersen’s Child in the Grave. Now, to close Op. 39, we hear his Der Tod der Mutter (“Death of the Mother”) from Tolstoy’s Childhood. Listen for these earlier themes:

0:00 Natalia
0:48 Grischa
1:38 Maman
2:22 Grischa

https://youtu.be/NC8_DDpW5ng

#dailypiano #piano #pianomusic #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109105086482514448

Hallo und herzlich willkommen bei «Vielleicht erste Liebe»! Unser Kandidat heute kommt aus #Bortkiewicz Op. 39 #10. Ist es nicht oder ist es doch?

[alle zusammen] VIELLEICHT!

Genau, lass uns spielen!

https://youtu.be/81YJfffFhko

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pretendgameshow #thatsreallythenameofthepiece

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109100004717180694

More Op. 39 Kindheit #pianominiatures from #Bortkiewicz, this time #7: Natalia Sawischna, die Amme (“The Nurse”). Exact same length as yesterday’s #dailypiano, entirely different flavor. #pianominiature #pianomusic #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/TQJGZ87mXSU

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109095042776983814

Seen in a preschool bathroom: wipe hands on Solaris, wipe butt on nvi. Not sure how to feel about this.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109093534578515993

#Bortkiewicz Op. 39 Kindheit continues with its fifth #pianominiature, called Kindheit (Kapitel 15) (“Childhood (Chapter 15)”). I assume that refers to chapter 15 of the Tolstoy novel, not chapter 15 of the abstract concept. #dailypiano #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/0ksq3K_RUN4

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109087905270091288

I've met a lot of music on this #dailypiano project. Lately I keep thinking about this Bortkiewicz non-miniature (excerpted here). It's nearly Liszt AND nearly movie music, but instead it's entirely itself. Can't get it off my mind. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj5Bp3HdTyUs93-Q8LfhPNpSJ8VbdSgUS

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109084541007299338

The fourth in Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit set (after the Tolstoy novel) is this one, sometimes halting, ever earnest.

Grischa, der wandernde Mönch (“Grisha, the wandering monk”): https://youtu.be/j1r4Z13Fk7M

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #romanticism #bortkiewicz

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109082343707499559

The third #pianominiature from Kindheit (#Bortkiewicz, Op. 39, after Tolstoy’s novel) is Der Vater (“The Father”). Judging by the music, my family’s different. Maman (from a couple days ago) sounds more like me, and this one sounds more like B.

https://youtu.be/J-D5ujUFfrk

#dailypiano #pianominiatures #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #romanticism #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109076618335228314

Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit suite was published in 1930, setting scenes, characters, and moods from Tolstoy’s 1852 novel of the same name. The suite — and perhaps the book, I have no idea — opens with “Karl Ivanovich, Der Lehrer” (“The Teacher”).

https://youtu.be/kCwAW658rpw

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkevych #bortkiewicz

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109071810702159213

Full couple of days, but whew! I’ve once again avoided ever missing two #dailypiano in a row.

This sweet one, #2 of Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit (“Childhood”), is called “Maman” (“Mama”). The suite is based on the Tolstoy novel. We’ll hear more of it.

https://youtu.be/6ahlr4Cx-ic

#pianosolo #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classical #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109067007469728285

I have to admit, they nailed my aspirational demographic.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109055874490076903

Two days ago, a lighthearted #pianominiature; yesterday, a serious #dailypiano maxiature; and today, a hybrid: pretty short, pretty heavy. Returning to #Bortkiewicz Op. 30 Aus Andersens Märchen, here’s #8, Das Kind im Grabe (“The Child in the Grave”). https://youtu.be/9UCCDPeCWU8

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109054869364764059

@liw Looks great. If and when you have a weekday version I’ll be all over it, US/Eastern permitting.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109049608433948755

To celebrate 5 hours of #dailypiano, here's my favorite #Bortkevych by far — no #pianominiature even if well played, but rarely do we hear his strength and sweetness combine so organically.

"The Rocks of Uch-Kosh", from Sketches of Crimea. https://youtu.be/_3rAo9nbdN0 #ukraine 🇺🇦

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109048665411166240

My Medtner performance was recorded by Joe Patrych, the big-dealiness of which I later came to understand. The main thing is, it sounds good. https://youtu.be/Dt7xzgkIQR4

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109044988471036082

15 years ago today, I performed #Medtner in midtown Manhattan. My memory, evidently full from my first and last recital in many years, had not seen fit to record that someone played #Bortkiewicz just minutes before.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109043010108411386

Back in the land of properly tiny #pianominiatures, here’s the third of Bortkiewicz’s Op. 30 Aus Andersens Märchen (“From Andersen’s Fairy Tales”), Der standhafte Zinnsoldat (“The Steadfast Tin Soldier”).

https://youtu.be/GS7r3QAEk48

#dailypiano #pianominiature #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #piano #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109042598182937471

@aza_leah now I have kids and they require infinite time

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109038114759580472

In Bortkiewicz’s world, every Lamentation is followed by a Consolation, every minor key by the major. Would that it were so in ours. Here’s the Op. 17 Consolation corresponding to what happened here yesterday 😜

https://youtu.be/oIHkJMXVF0o

#dailypiano #pianominiature #bortkevych

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109037516496471704

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org not prepared for THOSE kind of problems

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109031558017173274

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org that just about covers it

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109031497661494426

Finally a bit more piano time in the morning, so a #pianominiature that’s a bit less mini. For today’s #dailypiano #Bortkiewicz, we open up his four pairs of Lamentations and Consolations. This is the first Lamentation, Op. 17 #1.

https://youtu.be/ubiHP-V4HvU

#bortkevych #ukrainian

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109031457724338341

For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, another quick little one (compared to the usual, which is really saying something). Bortkiewicz Aus Andersens Märchen Op. 30 #2: Die Glocke (“The Bell”).

https://youtu.be/NQOmxAM8AgU

#piano #pianomusic #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych #ukrainian

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109026353915559203

No #dailypiano, just a few minutes to read through a piece.

"Is that Bortkiewicz?" asks B. Yup.

"It's _nice_." Yup.

Can't imagine his music changing anyone's life like Medtner's changed mine. You hear it, you've heard it. But it's serious, honest, tuneful, with great moments.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109022074406132361

Time’s tight today for #dailypiano. Here’s a quick little Bortkiewicz Prelude, Op. 33 #3 in D major.

https://youtu.be/LwnYxz2tsdE

#pianominiatures #pianominiature #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych #ukrainian

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109014058261250300

Bortkiewicz’s #pianominiatures are not exclusively idyllic fairy-tale settings. There are pairs of Lamentations and Consolations, (which we’ll visit), for instance, and some of the Preludes also run darker. For today’s #dailypiano, the Op. 33 #6 Prelude: https://youtu.be/E_REwc3rOCA

#pianominiature #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych #ukrainian

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109008707862334593

@joeyh an instant modern classic

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109008096808498403

7 years ago today: https://agilein3minut.es/21

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109004831082073004

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org recorded before a live audience 🙂

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109003896782268641

This is my 100th #dailypiano #pianominiature!

The full playlist, 4.5 hours of little morsels of good music played no less than half-decently: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109003204343375797

Yesterday, parents got a live Bortkiewicz show. Today, back to recording. Here’s another #dailypiano #pianominiature from Bortkiewicz’s Aus Andersens Märchen Op. 30, this time #4 Der Engel (“The Angel”). https://youtu.be/WX0oBZnHaO8

#pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #piano #pianomusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109003067220020106

Our next #dailypiano #pianominiature composer is usually spelled Bortkiewicz in Latin letters (Polish ancestry), but because he was Ukrainian, one sometimes sees Bortkevych.

From his Op. 30 Aus Andersens Märchen (“From Andersen’s Fairy Tales”), here’s The Princess and the Pea.

https://youtu.be/1E-tiPp861s

#pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108991773958339080

CD the fourth is ready for my parents. #grieg #dailypiano #pianominiatures

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108987152853165169

I’m putting my foot down, and I don’t mean on the pedals. The 4th CD of #dailypiano #pianominiatures is full; this has to be enough Grieg for now. Here’s Skogstillhet (“Peace in the Woods”), Op. 71 #4, without that wooden piece corresponding to C sharp. https://youtu.be/pKE_yKxgSoY

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108986281201785636

Today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature is short and sweet, like some kids I know. Grieg Lyric Piece Op. 38 #3 Melodi. https://youtu.be/N2a_dsTADzw

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108981782138020478

Gotta figure out how #dailypiano will work on Saturdays. Usually I record in the morning, but German classes for my boys just started up. Germany’s one of their countries. Here’s one of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces to match: Op. 43 #3 I hjemmet (“In my homeland”). https://youtu.be/BmIzGx0UAE0

#pianominiatures #pianominiature #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #grieg

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108976471950305717

Beautiful summer weather. In a few hours, slightly bigger than usual Friday family get-together, at our place. Using my minutes between shuttling kid 2 and kid 1, here’s Grieg’s Lyric Piece Op. 71 #2 Sommeraften (“Summer’s eve”), dappled sunbeams and all. https://youtu.be/5gJ-hVhz4J8

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #piano #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #grieg

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108969860303050635

Another strange and wonderful find among Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, heard for the first time yesterday and playing through for the third time here: Op. 54 #1 Gjetergutt (“Shepherd’s boy”).

https://youtu.be/fhn-UjB_YKg

#dailypiano #pianominiatures #grieg #classicalmusic #classicalpiano

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108963685873660619

Tiny, tasteful twists of Beethoven’s Moonlight and Schumann’s Fantasie garnishing a unique sound world. Fascinating piece.

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108959299556705163

Drizzly café morning listening to more new-to-my-ears Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, some of them astonishing. Here’s one. I doubt much of the magic made its way into my third reading, but my body’s still vibrating as I type this.

Op. 62 #5 Drømmesyn (Phantom).

https://youtu.be/ii16kGewt1Y

#dailypiano #piano #classicalpiano #romanticism #pianominiature #pianominiatures #grieg

---

original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/108958425280654533