I’m way behind in a couple of things but it is Friday evening, Sebastien Dupuis is streaming some Liszt practice. I’m ashamed to say I play no Liszt so I picked up a book of easy Liszt (for a given value of easy, when Liszt is at play) today. I didn’t deliberately intend to do that, but there you go.
I was in Strasbourg this week which means two main things: another shop to visit selling sheet music and stuff, and I didn’t practice at all. It’s safe to say I am now awfully behind with the whole Grade 6 things and it is frustrating to say the least.
I’m behind in photographing and uploading books and sheet music, although on the sheet music front, it’s just Strasbourg and Brussels.
On the book front, I bought another lot of Notes Legeres, a biography of Clara Schumann = still looking for one particular piece of music by her. I also bought a book galled Guide de la Musique de Piano which intrigued me and there is, somewhere around my book collection a copy of the letters. All of this is in French. The dtv-Atlas Musik came from Trier – not sure I mentioned that.
On the sheet music front, I bought a couple of bits and pieces. I bought the Wiener Urtext of Schumann’s Carnival. I bought some studies by Camille Saint Saens, and I’m sure there was something else, oh yes The Lark by Glinka-Balakirev. Here in Brussels, I bought a Handel Passacaglia arranged for piano and now I am hoping it is the “right” Passacaglia. I’m not sure it is which is going to be challenging (but that’s what Reddit support is for). I will take a look at that later. I also bought 599 Czerny as the in-the-knows on Reddit bang on about it and I have never done very much technique work.
So yeah, I need to catch up with photographing all that stuff and maybe updating the piano sheet music and literature library.