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Julia Zilberquit shares her closing thoughts on Tchaikovsky's "October: Autumn Song", encouraging the creative freedom to shape its tempo and phrasing as your own.
Course preview
This lesson is part of the course Perform Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" - March, April, June, October
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Lesson transcript:
Creative Freedom in Music
Of course, this piece also has an opportunity to play it.
- Some people would choose to play it a little bit slower.
- Some people will choose to play it with a little bit more movement.
And this is wonderful because this is what we call creative freedom.
This is why we can hear many musicians, famous musicians or not, playing the same notes.
"The composer writes the same notes, same dynamics, and it always sounds different. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful."
I do hope you will perform this piece. You will learn this piece, bring your own personal experiences to it, and you're going to enjoy that performance.
As I told you, it's one of my favorites. I always enjoy performing it, and I cannot tell you that it's always the same. My moods shift; you know, our life is shifting.
But I think it's the most gorgeous piece of music, and I'm just so happy to share it with you.
About the instructor
Russian-born American pianist Julia Zilberquit has earned critical acclaim as a recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. She was praised by The New York Times as "an outstanding soloist" after her Carnegie Hall performance of Cesar Franck's symphonic poem Les Djinns for piano and orchestra with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, Warner Classics released her CD Bach: Complete Solo Keyboard Concertos. This recording features the premiere of two Bach-Vivaldi Concerti Grossi arranged by Ms. Zilberquit for piano and orchestra, and was hailed as a "gorgeous rendition" by the prestigious Gramophone Magazine. Her arrangement of the Shostakovich Concertino for 2 Pianos, Op. 94 for piano and orchestra was premiered at Carnegie Hall; she has performed it worldwide to critical acclaim and recorded it with Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi. Other recordings include a solo recording, The Mystery of Bagatelles, released by Naxos. The CD was praised as a "superb performance" by The Washington Post, and described as an "adventurous program, sparkling with unusual clarity and pointillistic luminescence" in London's Piano Magazine. Her recitals have taken place at major concert halls including New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Engagements at major international music festivals include appearances in Seattle, Colmar (France), Klangbogen (Vienna), Valery Gergiev's "White Nights" (St. Petersburg), Richter's "December Nights" (Moscow), "The Palaces of St. Petersburg," the Bard Music Festival in New York, and the Penderecki Festival (Poland). A native of Moscow, Julia Zilberquit was born into a family of musicians. She graduated from the Moscow Gnessin School of Music and The Juilliard School (class of Bella Davidovich). She lives in New York City with her husband, son and daughter. In this course she draws on that artistry to guide you through four movements of Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" - March, April, June and October - so you can shape their poetry and colour at the keyboard yourself. read more