Monday, December 30, 2019

A 4th gymnopédie

I realized recently that I hadn't made any recordings for this project this year, so I did the first section of Rod Argent's A 4th gymnopédie.  (On Red House, it's called "A 4th Gymnopedie," but on Classically Speaking, it's called "A fourth gymnopédie."  If Satie's pieces are to be followed, I think A 4th gymnopédie would be the best format.)


I set a click track and recorded my excerpt based on that, but I think it's a bit faster than Argent's tempo.  I was going from memory, and it turns out I was a bit late for a few notes; otherwise, I think this is accurate.

I used the Bösendorfer Grand Imperial voice on my Nord Electro 5 because it's the closest I could get to Argent's Bechstein (which he uses for this piece in this excerpt from A Keyboard Approach and which is mentioned in these two interviews).