I would have been about nine or ten years old when Enya’s album Watermark appeared in our house on cassette tape. Was it a birthday gift, or a Mother’s Day gift for […]
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Brahms – Intermezzo in B Minor, Op. 119 No. 1
A recording of Brahms’ Intermezzo in B Minor, Op. 119 No. 1. This piece takes me back to the late 1990s when I was a student at Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand). […]
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Pescetti – Presto from Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in C Minor
This is Presto, the third movement from Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti (1704–1766). Presto was in ABRSM’s 2023–24 repertoire list for Grade 4 Piano, […]
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Schumann – “Chopin” from Carnaval, Op. 9 No. 12
I was very fortunate this year to hear Daniil Trifonov perform Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, in Wellington, New Zealand. After the thrilling performance, Trifonov treated us […]