Clark Minor
Concert pianist, artist teacher.
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
From the opera Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Piano transcription by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Rachmaninoff: 2nd Piano Concerto Rachmaninoff: 2nd Piano Concerto
Concert transcription by the performer of the Third Movement (allegro scherzando).
Debussy: L'isle Joyeuse Debussy: L'isle Joyeuse
Debussy wrote of L'isle joyeuse: 'This piece seems to embrace every possible manner of treating the piano, combining as it does strength with grace, if I may presume to say so.'
Verdi/Liszt: Rigoletto Fantasie Verdi/Liszt: Rigoletto Fantasie
Concert transcription by Franz Liszt
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2, 3rd mov't
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These are recordings of live events during my piano concertizing years in Northern California. Along with my love of Rachmaninoff and Ravel, I often chose more obscure pieces to perform. Their lack of predictability and uncommon virtuosity were distinct challenges.
As winner of the Artist's Showcase Competition in Redding, California, I appeared three times with the Shasta Symphony Orchestra and performed the MacDowell Second, Rachmaninoff Second, and Saint Saens Fifth piano concertos. I also performed solo concerts at California State University, Chico; Shasta College, Redding; College of the Siskiyous, Weed; and the Crocker Art Museum Gallery in Sacramento. My performances were featured three times on the local PBS affiliate.
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Comments (3)
Lovely performance of a beautiful song.
Bravo!
Well played- however I beleive this piece demands a shimmering legato over a cantabile melody, it sounds too marcato, the phrases should be heard as a single breath not as a series of notes but as a wash. ( Im not condoning pedal fetishism, rather keeping the motive elements and the lyrical separate through this type of phrasing. ) That said, I've never played the piece, so I am not saying I can do better. You did very well. But the difference between very well and exceptional is exactly this matter of "touch". I adore Rach or I wouldn't bother posting about it. To me this song should sound like the shimmering light on a lake at twilight, with the melody as the clear firefly hovering over it.
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