My Senior Recital of Amazingness

Hey so this is my first post and I’m super excited that I finally got around to making what hopefully won’t be a complete idiotic blog.  So this past May I had a senior recital sort of as like a let’s celebrate me and all my accomplishments since I’m going off to music school (yes I really am that conceited).  Well two months later I finally got the recording and here it is.

The first piece I played was the first movement of Mozart’s Sonata K. 283.  I thought this piece went pretty well, although it was a little sloppy in places.  So here it is.

Sonata K. 283

The next piece I played was “The Girl With the Flaxen Hair” by Claude Debussy, its a very beautiful piece of music, and the only thing more amazing than hearing it is playing it.

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

My third piano piece was Scherzo Op. 16, No. 2 by Mendelssohn.  This one is pretty rough in my performance but oh well.

Scherzo Op. 16, No. 2

After the first three pieces I switched over to my clarinet and brought up my wonderful accompanist Gary Okeson, who I convinced to accompany me less than two weeks before the recital.  He’s amazing.  So I played the first two movments of the Mozart clarinet concerto followed by my own arrangement/reduction (whatever it would be called) of Winter by Vivaldi.   Winter was interesting because its actually a violin concerto and clarinets really weren’t meant to play violin music.  Whoever said clarinets are the strings of the band world lied.

Concerto for Clarinet K. 622 I. Allegro

Concerto for Clarinet K. 622 II. Adagio

Concerto No. 4 in f minor, “Winter”

Ok so once I finally finished the nice long, oh so long, clarinet pieces I switched back over to piano for the finale of my recital which was a contemporary piano piece called “All of Me” by Jon Schmidt.  This song is really fun to play and if you play piano I highly reccomend it.

All of Me

So that’s it.  That’s my recital, if you happen to listen to this leave a comment, tell me what you think, am I amazing or do I suck?  You decide.  And I promise this is the most music I will ever put into one post : P