Marina's Piano Place

Chopin / Nocturne Op.27 nr.2

Marina Scalafiotti — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:37:16 +0000

And here is the other Chopin Nocturne. Still Op.27 but nr. 2

Chopin / Nocturne Op.27 nr.1

Marina Scalafiotti — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:53:06 +0000

OK, sorry I published this on Youtube and forgot to post it here. One of Chopin’s night melodies. Opera 27 nr 1 Played in the Pallazina di Stupinigi. Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll post Op. 27 nr. 2 too.

Internation Piano Competition announcement

Marina Scalafiotti — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:00:46 +0000

Just a little anouncement for a new International Piano Competition that will be held in Italy at the end of November 2008. For all young and less young pianists who want to challenge themselves and others. The jury will be made of renowned piano concertists and teachers of around the world, and will stand for impartiality and [...]

Schubert’s Fantasie for Piano Duet

Marina Scalafiotti — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:14:51 +0000

A fresh live recording of Stéphane Lemelin and Marina Scalafiotti playing the beautiful Schubert Fantasy for 4 hands. Unfortunately there is quite some noise from the public; sorry about that.

Bach Keyboard Concerto No.1 MP3

Marina Scalafiotti — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:16:28 +0000

Here is finally a new MP3 with an concert back in 2001 if I remember well. At this stage I just have the first movement, let’s see if I manage to get my hands on the second and third movements! Download the MP3 for free as usual below the video. (Right click Download and chose [...]

Ondine by Ravel - Free MP3

Marina Scalafiotti — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:22:25 +0000

Ondine is the first of 3 compositions for the piano composed by Maurice Ravel, each of the pieces are inspired by a poem from A. Bertrand. The poem “Ondine” is a tale of a water fairy singing to seduce the observer and accompany her to visit her kingdom deep at the bottom of the lake in [...]

Prokofiev Sonata 8 - Free MP3

Marina Scalafiotti — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:22:06 +0000

The eight piano Sonata composed by Sergei Prokofiev in B-flat Major is composed of 3 movements: 1. Andante dolce 2. Andante sognante 3. Vivace It’s the 8th of the 9 piano Sonatas that Sergei Prokofiev wrote. Unfortunately the tenth piano Sonata he was writing was never completed. This 8th piano Sonata was composed in the period between 1939 and 1944, [...]

Jeux d’eau a Villa d’Este - Liszt

Marina Scalafiotti — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:55:40 +0000

As I have missed my flight saturday morning we decided I would use the unplanned extra time won to do some experiments with the new ZOOM H4 (a microphone and recorder all-in-one) I have bought just 1 week ago. This is the result. A bit unsatisfying, the microphone was too close to the piano, but still [...]

Waldstein Sonata - Aurora

Marina Scalafiotti — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:29:16 +0000

I Allegro con brio II Molto Adagio - Introduzione III Alegretto Moderato

Free MP3 Debussy

Marina Scalafiotti — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:23:06 +0000

This page used to contains free MP3 files of Marina playing Debussy stuff like the Prélude and Sarabande of Pour le piano, the three poetic Images (second album), The wattery Jardins sous la pluie and the funny Petit Nègre. I removed those MP3 files now, not because they had to be removed for any reason like [...]

Bach Invention no. 1

Marina Scalafiotti — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:55:32 +0000

Bach’s invention nr. 1. I drop him here and will add more explanation as soon as I get it from Marina The first ornament is a trill, and not a mordent, as older teachers regularly wrongly think. The reason for this is that old Czerny, Mason and Busoni editions were displaying a mordent on this note, which [...]

Debussy’s Suite Pour le Piano

Marina Scalafiotti — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:44:31 +0000

Prélude Sarabande

Debussy pour le piano - Sarabande

Marina Scalafiotti — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:58:39 +0000

Bach Inventions

Marina Scalafiotti — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:35:17 +0000

All of Bach’s inventions will be uploaded here by time. For now we have yet: Bach Invention No.1 video Here’s also some background information about the inventions: Ornaments used by Bach Why did Bach write only 15 inventions and not 24 like the preludes & fugues?

Ornaments used by Bach

Marina Scalafiotti — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:20:49 +0000

At his time Bach had made a table with various ornaments, with a name and with a version of the ornament written in notes. This table was called The Explication. This was exceptional at because these things were supposed to be simply taught during a lesson, not on paper. Since the Explication applies each ornament to a [...]

The Trill

Marina Scalafiotti — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:09:46 +0000

The trill is usually written under one of these three forms : However all three the signs mean exactly the same. Rules for the trill: All trills begin on the upper note A trill is composed of a minimum of 4 notes Apart from these two rules the trill may be interpreted freely by the performer. A trill written like [...]

Bach pictures

Marina Scalafiotti — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:07:33 +0000

Prélude Debussy Pour le Piano (video & mp3 download)

Marina Scalafiotti — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:38:56 +0000

In June it started to be time to try and use the video camera we got from Santa-mother-in-law last Christmas. Marina played French piano music (Fauré, Debussy, Ravel) in the afternoon, with 35°C and humidity level suiting the watery music themes. The first part of “Pour le piano” is the Prélude, written in 1901, in A [...]

Why did Bach only compose 15 inventions and not 24?

Marina Scalafiotti — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:22:00 +0000

The Well-Tempered Clavier is dated 1722 and contains 24 preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key. This was possible because in that period there was a new way of tuning that allowed to play all 24 tonalities with the same temperament. So why are there only 15 keys in Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias, [...]

Inventions and Sinfonias

Marina Scalafiotti — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:43:16 +0000

The Inventions and Sinfonias of Johann Sebastian Bach are more commonly called the Two- and Three-Part Inventions The origin of the Inventions and Sinfonias of Johann Sebastian Bach can be found in the Clavierbüchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, a collection of compositions written by Johann Sebastian Bach for his first son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. On the Autograph [...]