Festival Pieces: First Blog (2/20)

After looking through all three of the pieces, I decided to choose excerpts that are the most difficult for me, or the ones that I need to be more musical in. Since I already did an excerpt from Mad Anthony, I decided to try the Old Irish Tune and Three Folk Miniatures. Throughout the blog, I will probably stick to:

• Old Irish tune: Measures 33-48
• Isabeau s'y promène (3 Folk Miniatures Movement 2): Measures 23-38

Since I picked relatively slow and legato pieces, I want to work on having a clearer tone, phrasing, breathing and intonation. Of course, staying at the right tempo and having note accuracy will also be important. Today, I recorded the excerpt from Movement 2.

Second Movement: Measures 23-28

I definitely have a lot to improve on within the next month before festival. I have a fuzzy tone and cannot breathe in all of the right places. I need to work on making my breath last 4 measures and shape the music with phrasing and dynamic changes.