Piano Tutorial Traümerei - Unleash your inner virtuoso
Channel: Tommy's Piano Corner
Date: 2020-01-21

This video is a piano tutorial of Schumann's Traümerei from the Kinderszenen (No. 7).  Often, we associate virtuoso playing with flashy, show pieces like La Campanella or Rach 3.  However, we can give the virtuoso treatment to any piece of music.

This is one of Vladimir Horowitz's favourite encores and I'll take you through an analysis of two different performances of it.  One was in Chicago:
https://youtu.be/vmPAByl8iCk
And the other in Moscow:
https://youtu.be/qq7ncjhSqtk

Watching how a great pianist interprets an accessible piece of music is fantastic.  Given that good artists borrow and great artists steal, why shouldn't we 'steal' from the master!  We'll look at what we can glean from the score and then at how Horowitz uses this information in his own interpretation.

I've mentioned before how a virtuoso pianist can shed light on music that we can learn ourselves in my video review of Lang Lang's Piano Book.  You should also find this an interesting watch:
https://youtu.be/_-JQE6x3lu4

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Fully details of all equipment used are available on my blog at the address below:
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Filmed on an iPhone 8+ - using the Filmic Pro app
Audio captured on an iPhone 6S using a Shure MV88 Microphone
Vocals captured on a Rode SmartLav microphone plugged into an iPhone 4S
Video editing done using iMovie
Audio editing done using Garageband

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