S. RACHMANINOFF. Piano Concerto 4, Miami Piano fest, V. Gryaznov - GPHIL

Описание: Miami Piano Festival, 2022
https://www.miamipianofest.com
Recording engineer: Javier G. Herrera


0:00 I. Allegro vivace
10:09 II. Largo
17:04 III. Allegro vivace

Finally, I have a video of the action.
This is my very first public performance with my own app called G-Phil (Gryaznov Philharmonic).

https://g-phil.app

I have always been passionate about the piano concerto genre, playing lots of them as a soloist and many as an orchestra substitute on the second piano.

The idea behind the app was to create a realistic, powerful, and emotionally rich orchestral track that will be in sync with my taste and ideas. It was built via an orchestral sample library and a midi sequencer by myself, from scratch, learning on the way how to use those tools, what to expect from them, and what not to. I learned the full score quite well by doing that, and I think it's the major positive outcome of the whole process. Turned out that the app intended to be used mostly at home for personal training can be used in a live concert environment. Recently I performed Rachmaninoff 3 twice, back to back, with a really wonderful orchestra in New London (Maestro Toshi Shimada was the conductor), and with the app in Boise, Idaho, people loved it!

It's not easy to make samples "alive", but I tried hard to reproduce what I absolutely love about the real orchestra. I tried to imagine every instrument, how a real person would play his part, how the orchestral groups would act separately and all together - and crafted each part individually, from the very first to the very last note. I recorded all the parts independently using a midi keyboard and mixed them later. It's a lot of fun and inspiration to be in complete charge of everything, in the middle of the action so to speak and choose which direction to go. I would never know how brilliant the score of Rachmaninoff no 4 is (and all other concertos I'm doing right now) if I didn't start this project.

Technical explanation:
I divided each movement into several sections according to the orchestra entrances, and, by pressing a page-turner pedal I can start the orchestra when I need, and to be absolutely free in the solo parts. Each section has a few tempo options, so I can change the tempo depending on my feeling before playing. The app was in a very fresh state at the time of the performance, so you'll witness a funny blooper in the middle of the 3rd movement when I accidentally pressed the pedal twice and two sections were playing at the same time. I never used such a pedal so it was a miracle that there were no more serious accidents :) I fixed it later and now the system is pretty reliable and convenient. Also, in the recent version I don't have to do anything between the movements, the whole concerto can be loaded as one playlist, remembered as a session, and reloaded later on with all the tempo options. I made a simple web interface for the app's functionality and called it a day. It's still in heavy development, and for sure will be for a while, but the core is already out there. There are already a couple of piano concertos available in the library, and a few are in development, check them out.

I work alone so far and code/produce everything myself. I know it's not ideal. But your feedback can help me to understand my faults/achievements/future goals. Please let me know what you think about the whole thing in the comments below.

The app lives at
https://g-phil.app

If you like the idea and wish to support this project, consider being my Patreon team member/coffee provider/direct Paypal sponsor. Your sponsorship will help me to delegate some tasks to the right people (such as coding, UI development, account management, and so on). The links are below:

  / slavagryaznov  
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vgryaznov
https://paypal.me/slavagryaznov

Thank you, everyone. I hope to make the app really helpful and enjoyable to use.