Tomorrow afternoon I am recording a 30-min solo program for an online concert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Practicing for a concert is very different from a regular practice session to maintain your chops and learn new music. In regular practice I focus on my inner self, listening to your sound, checking-in with your body, being conscious of your attention and focus, etc. But before a performance, I switch gears. I think about how my sound and music projects. What it is that I want to communicate through the pieces and how to make it come across more effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The piano and acoustics will be different from the piano and the room you are used to from your daily practice. You cannot rely on your physical\/tactile memory. So, you have to be secure in your conceptual grasp of the music, and what you want to have come across. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To get myself ready, I made a series of recordings where I talk through my practice sessions, reading the musical indications out loud, sharing with the audience how I think about certain passages, how I decide on certain tempos and textures, etc. I will make these videos public a few days apart. To start with, here is a video of my talking through Godowsky’s Elegy for the Left Hand Alone (1929). <\/p>\n\n\n\n