My dream is to study at a conservatory, seeing this video is very reinforcing for me because i have never really known the exact standards that you need to be to get into one
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
im glad that im able to help :) although it was quite lucky, that I got in. I was fortunate with the excerpts I had to play. there are many more able pianists who might end up not being accepted. there is always chance involved unfortunately. also different conservatories have very different criteria!
@AinSoph73
Ай бұрын
I once studied at one. If and when you make it - it's very dreamlike at first but you'll soon wake up and see a business just like any other field. Good luck. Keep us posted.
@jonathanDstrand
Ай бұрын
if you look at the website of any conservatory audition requirements should be listed
@marinadela1361
Ай бұрын
The requirements are diff for each.
@readingwriter2732
Ай бұрын
I got accepted into pre-bachelor this year. I had decided in November I wanted to try for auditions in June so I was very late. I played bare minimum in terms of difficulty but my teacher spent so much time perfecting it. It really helps if you go on trial lessons at the conservatory so the teachers and the people examining already know you a little
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
The fugue is extremely well put together. You considered each voice. So wonderful.
@JoEbY-X
Ай бұрын
I came to the comments section also to commend in particular his performance of the C minor fugue. Fantastic! You GET it! And (in my opinion, because I know opinions vary) you used the PERFECT amount of rubato!
@user-qy9ym2cs3t
Ай бұрын
It feels so nice to have (one of) the best Beethoven Sonata !!!
@LedoPiano
Ай бұрын
Great program and great playing, congratulations 👏👏👏 Hope you get to join your dream conservatory!
danke dir! werde tatsächlich Klavier und Komposition als Doppelstudium studieren können. freue mich schon sehr darauf!
@nehath123
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha nice ein deutscher. wo hast du dich beworben? wollte mich nächstes jahr auch bewerben. musstest du eig. auch etwas vom blatt spielen, wenn ja was wars?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
habe mich an ein paar Städten beworben, Bremen, hamburg, Detmold etc. auch für Komposition. in hamburg musste ich vom Blatt spielen, etwas leichtes von Schumann, ansonsten nirgends. viel glück nächstes jahr!
@hisky.
Ай бұрын
omg ! my favourite youtuber watches the same content I do
@EugenioAbruzzese
Ай бұрын
Great program, nice playing. Keep going!
@alanleoneldavid1787
Ай бұрын
Great choose of works. I am currebtly lerning a program for my conservatory in cordoba to bachelor's degree. Schuebrt sonata in a minor, chopin octaves etude, rachmaninof op 39 no 2, the same scriabin piece, and villalobos bachiana no 4 prelude. Didnt knew bartok elegie , is really insane
@paules3437
7 күн бұрын
Great CHOICE (The noun form of the verb "choose").
@juanferestrada
Ай бұрын
Great program and great playing!
@luizreyes9922
7 күн бұрын
Nice! Hoppe now you're studying at one of those conservatories you applied.
@rutchs7734
Ай бұрын
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your beautiful performances
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
The wonderful care you took in the 4th movement could have been applied to the Scriabin and the Bartok. The Beethovenian way of how you treat the melody can be applied to all the other pieces. The Prokofiev was very well done. Excellent!
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thank you for your attentive listening and feedback!
@nicolassosa866
Ай бұрын
Love the first poem, my favorite. Horowitz’s interpretation is lovely
@nicolassosa866
Ай бұрын
And nice fugue!
@xpump876
11 күн бұрын
The Bach fugue was nicely voiced and well realized. Nice work overall. Good luck w/ your applications
@emfox6280
7 күн бұрын
could've let loose a bit more i thought
@xpump876
5 күн бұрын
@@emfox6280 For Bach I like prefer a staid approach w/o little to no rubato. Thus yours was excellent. I once studied at the "St. Louis Conservatory of Music" in the early 80's (long since defunct) .. I transferred there from USC ( S.Carolina) Music school - Classical Guitar). I will never forget how it was way, way over my head ( solfège class, real-time beat transcriptions ..etc ..). Practically all of the ~+40 students there had started playing before 10 yrs old an most had family that were symphonic players or conductors. Made some great friends and it was an awesome period in my life.
@l.w.paradis2108
Ай бұрын
Your Scriabin is superb. SO many pianists make him sound aimless, and also as if they play him to show off their technical prowess. (Spare me! LOL) This was MUSIC. 😊
@l.w.paradis2108
Ай бұрын
P. S. For Bach, be sure to listen to Tatiana Nikolayeva. Her interpretations are too often overlooked.
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thanks a lot! also for the recommendation. I know of nikolayeva but have never properly listened so thank you :)
@BrakeJiggs
3 күн бұрын
Great playing, I have trills in the Scriabin poem at the beginning
@berhanpalabyk9368
Ай бұрын
Nice playing! One of my students also going to play Beethoven op2 no 1 I'll definitely recommend him your rendition especially for the first movement
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
good luck to him!
@Ivan_1791
Ай бұрын
Congrats, great playing. :)
@Xzy_158
Ай бұрын
Nice voicing at 01:45 Was this Scriabin composition the inspiration for ur deux Poemes? Theyre legit hype, signature Scriabin texture in the second one lol
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
Thank you! A bit, but only conceptually, not musically.
@Xzy_158
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanapthasure I see that now :)
@Xzy_158
Ай бұрын
Also I'm learning that Beethoven sonata rn as well 😊
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
Good luck with it! Last movement is a beast.
@321Lopper
Ай бұрын
Really like the 4th movement from the 1st sonata. It’s less “polished” than a recording from the likes of Brendel but that also gives it some special visceral energy.
@brooksiefan
Ай бұрын
Congratulations! So deserved. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
You always slam down on the down beat! Consider the whole phrase!
@henrykwieniawski7233
Ай бұрын
Pretty great! The Bach prelude was a little harsh in the beginning, though. Was your phone on the piano when recording?
@DavitMinasyan-rn3fv
Ай бұрын
Congratulations on getting in!!
@nilskroehl
Ай бұрын
Ich mache zwar erst das Abi, trotzdem interessant zu sehen wie dein Programm aussah. Gibt es Konservatorien überhaupt noch? Heisst das nicht Musikhochschule heutzutage? Wenn ich dann dran bin mit der Aufnahme Prüfung, was denkst du von einer Ligeti Etüde? (Wahrscheinlich Fanfares oder Cordes à vide) Oder was für eine Sonate würdest du empfehlen?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
ja ich glaube auf deutsch nur noch Hochschule, aber auf english heißt es soweit ich weiß noch so? ich denke dein Programm kannst am besten du selbst aussuchen, aber wenn du ligeti Etüden sauber spielen kannst hast du denk ich nichts zu befürchten :) Der einzige tipp den ich hätte ist spiel keine zu bekannten werke außer du bist dir wirklich sicher dass du dich mit deiner interpretation abheben kannst von anderen die das gleiche spielen. klar, Chopin 10/12 zu spielen oder 10/4 (zum beispiel) ist super aber damit rauszustechen zwischen 10 Leuten die das auch spielen ist viel schwerer als wenn du etwas außergewöhnliches vorbereitest. da ist ligeti schon super glaub ich
@alainspiteri502
Ай бұрын
for me j remember Chopin op35-2 first mvt , Czerny Toccata op92 , Debussy Terrasse des Audiences , Bach Prelude- Fugue , Chopin Cto N-1 first mvt ( exam Conservatory 1960 )
@paules3437
7 күн бұрын
They put the wrong accent on the "e" when they wrote "Deux Poémes." The manuscript has it right, tho'. You'd think JS Bach might have come up with more original names than "Preludium" and "Fuga". I mean, he wrote 48 of them. How about a little pizzazz in the titles, like "More Notes than you can shake a stick at"?
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
Very wonderful 4th movement!
@wyattfox2425
Ай бұрын
where did you apply and where'd you end up choosing to go?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
I applied in several German cities. im gonna be studying composition and piano in Bremen
@RaymondDoerr
Ай бұрын
Congrats on getting into a conservatory!
@krystianpawlowski7271
Ай бұрын
It’s beautiful!! I wonder though did you mean to take the 4th movement of the Beethoven so fast? I’m a violinist and I try to imagine myself playing the top lines but is v difficult with the tempi you took. (You can ignore this if you want) in the first movement I feel like you can make some of the notes sing more too in the melody’s because some of the notes feels uneven and cut off. This is just from my point as violinist u can ignore lol. 2nd and 3rd movements I loved the tempi
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
I think the problem is with my technique. I do like the tempo I chose and I think it can work very well if you can pull it off and play cleanly. I did my best to do so but with the current level im at (and after playing the rest of the sonata before in the take) this is the best I got. thank you for your critique though! (for example Igor levit plays it at a similar tempo and much more controlled of course. even better: friedrich gulda)
@cgnotes
Ай бұрын
wonderful
@mariwsqk
Ай бұрын
Beautiful Scriabin
@eddygonzalez2328
Ай бұрын
Which conservatory? Hoow long was the audition? Did they let you finish any of the pieces? I know you prepare 5 pieces and they don't let you finish any of them. Auditions can be 15 to 50 minutes. Mine was 20 minutes long, them comes meeting the faculty and making conversation. The are just taking the measur of you. You might have a theory test. It's nerve wreaking amd even thou they say they will let you know, by the time you leave, you already know if you've been accepted or not. It's a completely different world. Very demanding and strict.
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
mainly bremen and Hamburg in germany. auditions where about 10 minutes, I played skrjabin 1 and Beethoven 4 in full in one of them, and some pf skrjabin, Beethoven and Bartok in the other.
@ryzikx
24 күн бұрын
nice! i wonder if there's an age limit on trying to get in and studying in conservatory 😅
@charlescg3904
Ай бұрын
Not easy playing in a piano of suboptimal condition or recording an entire session, great job! Hope you don’t mind if I shared some thoughts on what I’m hearing. I didn’t get a chance to listen through every piece. Overall you have some good ideas of what you’re trying to do and good tones. I would think about the competitiveness of some of the choices however, the Bach and Beethoven you picked are all more on the ‘elementary’ levels so you will be judged harsher on perfection so keep that in mind. For the fugue I would refrain from rubato expressions (the prelude is okay to use some rubato) but having rubato or anything that disrupts the pulse of the music can also disrupt the presentation of the subjects when they come in. Structure is extremely important here. Overall there’s a feeling the left hand can be more subdued throughout all the pieces at moments. The 1st Scriabin can sound a bit dry at times, this isn’t purely pedaling, could try to finger pedal more and legato involves transferring of weight between fingers rather than pure finger work.
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thanks for your insights!
@nezkeys79
Ай бұрын
The Scriabin piece was the type in my ABRSM exams that I would ignore lol. It would be the C option lol The Beethoven pieces ❤
@ultimateconstruction
Ай бұрын
Beethoven = God.
@conan2717
Ай бұрын
Beautiful😊🥰
@carpinchipedia7009
Ай бұрын
Which conservatoire are you going to? My audition programme was Mendelssohn - Rondo Capriccioso, Bach - Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue and Beethoven - Waldstein (1st movement) and I got into where I applied as well. Fantastic playing!
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
in Bremen, Germany. congratulations to you!
@carpinchipedia7009
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha oh how brilliant! many congratulations!
@Pamela-dv7gb
19 күн бұрын
Hi could you tell me what was the most difficult part of your audition ? Also could you make a video of all exam piece each year/grade You add before conservatory,it would be interesting and it could also make me find something to play after my burgmuller op 109
@naphtanaptha
15 күн бұрын
for me the biggest difficulty was improving such a big repertoire, especially since i didn’t have lessons in the last year. other than that i think i had the most technical problems with bartok. i definitely plan to keep some sort of record of my repertoire and playing in the future :)
@Bazzozzo03
Ай бұрын
really good playing of bach!
@paules3437
7 күн бұрын
at 16:34 is that a clinker?
@Alix777.
Ай бұрын
I like your Scriabin a lot
@YonatanSetbon
Ай бұрын
you play well congrads!
@throxing8865
Ай бұрын
Great program- especially loved the Beethoven. Do u mind if i ask where u got accepted?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thank you :) I got accepted in Bremen, Germany
@cresc101
Ай бұрын
I think you're playing Prestissimo a bit too fast. Might be because of garbage quality of training room pianos but the entry themes with Fm are very blurred. At times I'm confused whether it's just out of tune or you're playing wrong notes. I guess there was a memory slip at 29:35, right? Interesting choice for conservatory repertoire though.
@jamesrockybullin5250
Ай бұрын
I’m confused, you’re playing at the level expected at the end of an undergrad music degree. This is your application?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thanks! im not too sure how it is in the states but I think in Europe the application standard is frustratingly high (and very excluding). I was very fortunate with the excerpts I played in the audition and was lucky to have gotten in with where im at.
@AlbertoBurke2005
16 күн бұрын
In what college did you get accepted ?
@mirokajevskivelevski8895
Ай бұрын
Great playing, but as I've played and listened to the first and fourth mvts too many times, the fourth seems a little too fast and the texture the left hand is making is a little as if it's little triplet groups like in the first mvt. Idk about this edition, but I've always thought that they need to be more legato, like much more stable runs. The middle section is also really well played but might be a little too rushed. I'd say in general that there are 2 characters having a debate, and the first character immediately gets furious, then the second tries to calm him down and it goes on. Basically what I'm getting at is to voice the "characters" in a little more different tempo (slight changes bc otherwise it'll mess everything up) and a generally much more contrasting voicing. Btw sorry for the yap session
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
no problem :) thank you for your thoughts!
@emmanuelsebaali1767
Ай бұрын
how old are you? and is it possible to share the name of the conservatory just to get a relative view of the level required for this type of institution?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
I already mentioned a few times in other responses. I got in at hfmt in Hamburg and hfk in Bremen.
@nikolaydimitrov2150
Ай бұрын
How is it possible to enter a conservatory with only audio recordings?! Everywhere I have seen, the strict requirements are videos for self-explanatory reasons. Congrats on getting in!
@nikolaydimitrov2150
Ай бұрын
And that is only for preliminary round xD then live round comes...
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
these are just recordings I made for my own improvement and practice about a month out of the auditions. I did play live auditions!
@nikolaydimitrov2150
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha Ah okay! But you had pre-selection video or not?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
@@nikolaydimitrov2150 yes I had to send in some video excerpts
@nikolaydimitrov2150
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha Great! You also played awesome! Congrats for getting in!
@ofilosofoouumfumante5655
Ай бұрын
🎉 congrats man. Do you plan on becoming a concert pianist?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
Thanks! No, not really. I will be studying piano as well as composition any my personal focus is rather on the latter. I can't really see myself touring playing concerts (not to speak of the difficulty of actually being able to).
@ofilosofoouumfumante5655
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha Wish all the best for you in composition then. Just show your KZitem channel and you'll get a degree without even going through it.
@felixwidmoser
Ай бұрын
Ist es schwer in Komposition reinzukommen? Und kann man das auch alleine studieren? Oder ist das berufstechnisch unlogisch? Lg
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
kann man auf jeden fall allein studieren. ob es schwer ist kann ich nicht so gut einschätzen. ich komponiere und beschäftige mich mit Theorie seit ca 1,5 jähren sehr intensiv im Selbststudium. das hat bei mir gereicht. dazu musst du auch eine Klavier Nebenfach und Gehörbildungsprüfung bestehen, aber beides in der Regel nicht mit zu hohen Anforderungen (in Deutschland zumindest).
@felixwidmoser
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha okay vielen Dank!
@pianopro9
Ай бұрын
The Scriabin ‘colour’ and expression is very well played. Your sense of tempo is probably a bit too ‘wishy-washy’ in general. Also there are many times where the left hand ‘anticipates’ the right hand. The technique (asynchrony!?) is quite common in romantic music but it’s too overused here. Also in the rubato around 2:48 you got a bit faster randomly. Surely the tenuto’s and the rubato mean to slow down to build to the top A#. Nevertheless it was extremely expressive but should be just a bit more reliable in terms of tempo/togetherness. Good luck
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thank you :) I know, tempo is definitely something to work on for me.
@AbCd-kq3ky
Ай бұрын
Did you get accepted? :)
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
yes I did :) for composition too!
@AbCd-kq3ky
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha Congrats 😃
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
thank you thank you :)
@sharky_spike
Ай бұрын
even skriabin sounds badly when an E is out of tune😂
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
Bach prelude was very muffled in the beginning.
@JLgG2454
Ай бұрын
I am giving a like for Good Success, as you are correct, your phone, and probably the piano did not make justice to your quality as a musician and an interpret.. Cheers!
@supasayajinsongoku4464
29 күн бұрын
opinions on jazz and other world music????
@naphtanaptha
28 күн бұрын
I love jazz and haven't listened to too much world music (nor do I know what exactly it is) but what ive gotten to know under that name wasn't my cup of tea.
@majorcproductions
Ай бұрын
Schnabel like staccatos. Too rush but in the slow passages beautiful sounds.
@bassodivo1
Ай бұрын
You have a legitimate heart aspect of Scriabin. Lucky you. But your style in louder passages can be a bit tyrannical. Scriabin is commanding not tyrannical. In general you sound tyrannical. Do you actually like the piano? The emotional onset is interesting. I wish we could talk more about the psychology of your playing
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
commanding but not tyrannical is actually a very helpful image. thanks!
@bassodivo1
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha 🥰
@Rilberich
Ай бұрын
Poèmes, not poémes.
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
whoops!
@bassodivo1
Ай бұрын
Or maybe it is that you take tyranny too far at times? Composers, artists, have the right to express the range of emotion and expression of the human condition. But a dominating frequency of tyranny within one's musical expression seems counterproductive. The point is that I don't feel the underlying mental state that expresses itself in your playing will give you the most amount of return. Because others hear this on a subconscious level
@pablobear4241
Ай бұрын
is your teacher russian?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
one of my teachers is ukranian
@marse7092
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanapthame too. Online teacher or in person?
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
@@marse7092 in person luckily. I don't think online lessons would work too well for me
@marse7092
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha I used to think that way too, but I love my online lessons!
@justadude641
Ай бұрын
Sorry but your Bach is completely wrong. The composer wrote Presto and you kept the initial tempo. It's obvious you can't play faster on the presto passage, so you should play slower on the first section.
@clarkebynum4623
Ай бұрын
Heyo! Just went and looked at the manuscript and I don’t see the word presto on there once. Just a heads up that most Bach editions are heavily edited by “scholars.”
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
that's my info as well. Bach never writes such things in his score.
@clarkebynum4623
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha I wanted to double check incase it was one of those like 6 times he wrote something in
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
yeah thanks, always good to do the research :)
@user-jj8kg5ef2t
Ай бұрын
very well executed. Excpept, i cannot understand why you have chosen Scriabine 2 poems.... not easy to impress the auditors.
@swinger9374
Ай бұрын
What is your opinion on whatismusic123
@naphtanaptha
Ай бұрын
their banned on my channel. I think that says it all. they're a troll and try to discourage as many people as they can for whatever reason.
@en-blanc-et-noir
Ай бұрын
guy sucks... at life
@erika6651
Ай бұрын
@@naphtanaptha I wish KZitem had a general ban button like Facebook. I've grown so tired of seeing that narrow minded thing's negative comments everywhere. Awesome Scriabin here btw.
@ultimateconstruction
Ай бұрын
Who tf is whatismusic123
@yafetpalomeque75
Ай бұрын
@@ultimateconstruction I have the exact same question 😂, I tried Google them but didn't find anything solid, just some random mentions and in one of them someone claimed Brahms was the best composer ever and they didn't accept more comments 😂😂
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