The goal of music and art is not to be beautiful. Its goal is ultimate truth.

Sergiu Celibidache

A rare ocasional slip and everything is just perfect — a perfect wrong note as William Westney put it.

This is a parody of the movie ‘Interview With the Vampire’, the scene where Lestat scolds Claudia for having tried to kill him (the sound is muffled because I am using a mute).
You can find here another amazing take on this scene (Sonata in E flat, Haydn).

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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.

I made this study on the above mentioned theme. The images are from the Russian movie ‘A Hunting Accident’ (1978, dir. Emil Loteanu).

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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.

I made this transcription after Enrico Caruso interpretation of ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (Tosca, Puccini).

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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.

They can be clockwork, which deems them just too perfect. Such as in this 2nd Waltz by Schostakowitsch.

I made a caprice based on the music ‘Saffron’s Curse’ by Cradle of Filth (album Midian, 2000).
Its called Saffron’s 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.

I made a transcription from the song ‘A Kiss to Remember’ by the doom & gloom merchants My Dying Bride (album ‘Like Gods of the Sun’, 1996).

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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.

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.

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.