Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Had the pleasure of performing a bit of the fantastic A minor trio by Brahms yesterday, at a student-run classical show/get-together. I just wish I'd known about this group while I was still in school :(
The piece is one I've known and loved for quite a while, and I'm so glad the opportunity to play it finally arose with my acquisition of an A clarinet and a willing cellist. Huge thanks to Tom and Lydia for putting it together with me. The last few weeks have been quite a scramble.
It's hard to top that autumnal feel of late Brahms, and I hope we were reasonably successful in capturing it in our interpretation. Despite the lack of overt pyrotechnics, it was a huge challenge to put together, largely because the piece plays out like an intimate 3-way dialogue as the melodies and countermelodies are constantly traded between the different voices. Not to mention the weird metrically offset melodies to throw off your sense of downbeats/upbeats. I certainly couldn't tell before having studied the score. Classic Brahms.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the piece, as I'll probably be sharing our next performance of it for the coming Sunday at the usual venue as well :)
Had the pleasure of performing a bit of the fantastic A minor trio by Brahms yesterday, at a student-run classical show/get-together. I just wish I'd known about this group while I was still in school :(
The piece is one I've known and loved for quite a while, and I'm so glad the opportunity to play it finally arose with my acquisition of an A clarinet and a willing cellist. Huge thanks to Tom and Lydia for putting it together with me. The last few weeks have been quite a scramble.
It's hard to top that autumnal feel of late Brahms, and I hope we were reasonably successful in capturing it in our interpretation. Despite the lack of overt pyrotechnics, it was a huge challenge to put together, largely because the piece plays out like an intimate 3-way dialogue as the melodies and countermelodies are constantly traded between the different voices. Not to mention the weird metrically offset melodies to throw off your sense of downbeats/upbeats. I certainly couldn't tell before having studied the score. Classic Brahms.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the piece, as I'll probably be sharing our next performance of it for the coming Sunday at the usual venue as well :)
![[Nodame Cantabile] - Allegro Cantabile (piano solo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6-WiIVnJH1A/mqdefault.jpg "[Nodame Cantabile] - Allegro Cantabile (piano solo)
Looks like Im on a covering spree :)
Nodame Cantabile is one of my absolute favorite animes, and I think that any music lover should give it a shot! Its comedy gold, theres lots of drama, and of course the music is great ^_^ I highly recommend it to everyone, even if you dont like classical (cause you might just be able to appreciate it afterwards :P)
I tried a completely different recording setup this time, hooking the piano up to the stereo system, and recording with my Behringer mic, rather than the camera. Its a much improved sound for the most part, though next time I might try the bass attenuation switch XD
Im still pretty nervous and spastic when recording piano, and as such my rubato sounds a bit more forced than usual, and theres not as much variation in dynamics as Id like :( Definitely working on that though, so hopefully the next piano piece I plan on playing will sound better (oh, and its one beastly piece XD)
At any rate, hope you enjoy!
Sheet music can be found at Joshs site
Title: Allegro Cantabile (piano version)
Original Composition/arrangement by Suguru Matsutani / 松谷卓
Based on Allegro Cantabile Sound by Suemitsu and the Suemith
From the anime Nodame Cantabile / のだめカンタービレ
I own only my playing!")
![[Angel Beats] - Brave Song (clarinet cover)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6ZK6W87noJw/mqdefault.jpg "[Angel Beats] - Brave Song (clarinet cover)
After getting the sudden urge to watch Angel Beats dubbed over the past few days, I figured it would be fitting to cover this very nice song. Its a good show (but easily couldve been better, given its Jun Maeda), and I highly recommend it to all who have yet to see it.
In this video I decided to try out an old microphone that I found, and boy is the sound an improvement over my cameras mic! This is how a clarinet is supposed to sound like gone is the super harsh and grainy sound from before. But on the downside, its sensitive enough to pick up whats playing from my headphones. I also tried recording closer to my clarinet to reduce reverb, and unfortunately thats how those unnatural crescendos and clips happened (me swinging my horn too close to the thing) ^ ^;
If you look closely you might notice slight differences between the video and audio thats cause these were done on two separate takes. In the first take (the video), I managed to screw up my microphone settings so the sound was utter garbage, and on the second take, my camera ran out of memory half-way through OTL. I was a bit annoyed, to say the least, and so I just took the visual from the first one and synched it to the sound XD.
No sheets this time, but you should be able to do it by ear. Its in an easy key for the most part and its quite slow. Well, enjoy, and look forwards to some more Angel Beats covers =)")
