Rather than moving a lot of sound files, we’re posting a link so you can hear it on Soundcloud as long as she keeps it there. Enjoy!
Rather than moving a lot of sound files, we’re posting a link so you can hear it on Soundcloud as long as she keeps it there. Enjoy!
Thanks for posting!
Lizzie, this is amazing.
Over halfway through it now! It sounds awesome!! Really enjoying the piece in G Major at the moment
Awesome, Lizzie! Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous!
…and you are now officially in my iTunes library. This makes me wish I had kept playing violin. Actually, on second thought, now I’m glad I quit, because I’d never be this good.
That was lovely!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE.
…Sorry. I’m one of those people who is unable to type coherently while listening to music. I’ll keep listening now…
This is beautiful. It is. It’s amazing and sounds like something I would hear tuning in to the classical music station on the radio- that level of professional. But really… emotional. I love it. I love it. Thank you for posting.
Ahh Lizzie! Beautiful!
Lizzie, you play extremely, extremely well. This is beautiful. I really wish I could play as well as you!
Thanks for the compliments, guys.
A few notes about the recording: this is my junior recital that I performed on Dec 9th. As a performance major, I’m required to give a recital my junior and senior year, but there’s not really any further specifications (well, it has to be under 90 min and there have to be fewer than 27? people on it). I picked the program with my teacher – he’d be all “listen to the first five Beethoven sonatas and figure out which one you like the best” and I’d be like “I want to do no. 1.” It’s not very innovative or very diverse programming, and that’s something I want to try to address with my recital next year. However, all of the pieces are classic and really solid repertoire to know, so I’m glad I did it.
I started working on the program maybe late August, early September. I worked on a few other things throughout the semester, but this was my major focus. The main challenge I had was my sound – my teacher kept trying to get me to play more warmly, which is hard because my violin is very very bright. I think I figured it out, though, and my teacher was really pleased with my performance (and the other day in studio said that the richness I had managed to get in my recital was one of the more amazing things he’d heard because usually that disappears under pressure. So that made me happy.)
I wore a long wine-colored A-line dress that flares out at the bottom. I’ve had it since high school. Also gold flats – I can’t play in heels because they throw off my balance.
The pianist is a staff accompanist, hired by the school, and she’s amazing. I’m so lucky to have worked with her.
If anyone has any questions about anything – music, process, whatever – please feel free to ask.
When you’re choosing music, do you choose some pieces that you like and then put them together in a program, or do you decide what sort of stuff you want in the program and then choose pieces to fit?
Piggy – a bit of both. Generally you want a mix of things – sonata, showpiece, maybe some solo Bach? so you think about that, and then you also want things from different time periods. Unless you’re going to do a theme recital – some people do all three Brahms sonatas, doing Ysaye 2 and Bach E major is pretty popular (the Ysaye is based on the Bach), that sort of thing. So you pick a core piece or two and then you look at what you have and what you need, and fill in the gaps.
Okay, that’s your way of doing it. I wasn’t asking how one does it, I was asking about your personal method. Thanks!
I don’t quite understand what you’re saying here?
You just phrased it as if you were telling everyone the one correct way to do it, and I was explaining that I was just interested in your personal method so that I could compare it to my own. Don’t worry, you did nothing wrong–my question has been answered. Fantastic recital, by the way!
This is quite relaxing to listen to on a long car ride.
This was a fantastic recital. I enjoyed it thoroughly in December and I’m incredibly enthusiastic to be able to listen even more to the glorious music you played.