Air on the G string

I played J. S. Bach ‘Air on the G string’.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Training

I illustrate a typical training session which I structure in 3 parts:
1. warmup; I use it to practice critical or complex pieces that require several days or weeks to develop because in the beginning of the session I am still fresh and not tired.
2. current undergoing exercises; which if needed can be moved to part 1 to keep overall progress unimpeded.
3. motivational; in the end I reward myself with a new experiment or some piece I want to learn to play. No goals and no expectations. This is where I develop the ideas and performances I record in the other videos.

The background artwork is from Tiamat’s album ‘Wild Honey’ (1994) cover, which I consider a landmark in progressive death metal.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Funeral Caprice

I made a short transcription from Mahler’s 5th Symphony (Trauermarsch) and named it ‘Funeral Caprice’.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Canon

I played the Canon by Pachelbel (2nd half) with an excerpt from the BBC mini-series ‘Parade’s End’ (2012).

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Romeo & Juliet

I played ‘A Time for Us’ from Romeo & Juliet (arr. by Marie Leloup).
Images from Franco Zeffirelli’s movie with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting (1968).

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Violin étude

I played a small étude by Maia Bang, from her Method for Violin which I have been following.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Mathematics parody

If you don’t get it, don’t bother — its for nerds anyway.

Praia da Torre

After a session, got into the car, turned the radio on and everything falls into place.
A remastered recording of Enrico Caruso on ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (from Tosca, Puccini).
I later made a transcription of this for violin which you can find here.

New year celebration

I have been feeding urban birds in my balcony for some time now, and I realized for the first time that what we savagely call celebration (the fireworks) must be terrorising every single soul that lives and breathes in a bush near a street.

We are so sophisticated in our psychosis. That is indeed a legitimate reason for celebration.

How to catch an eagle

… if you are bound to the ground. Study this well, because this is a form of art when perfected by experience.