Czerny Op 335 #36, 2 Versions
You probably won’t have many opportunities to play #36 for a combination in class. It’s a “grazioso” 3/4, and quiet until the very end,...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #37, 3 versions
This lovely cortege recommends itself in every way--squarely structured, effective in a wide range of tempos and dynamics, easily...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #38, Single Version
This is a fascinating piece to look at on the page, feel in your fingers (even if you can only play it slowly), and listen to as it...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny op 335 #40, Single Version
If you can master this very difficult and fiercely beautiful wild ride you’ll want to save it for a recital; in a ballet class it’s more...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #42, Single Version
One of the aims of my arrangements is to put Czerny’s more difficult studies within my technical reach so that I have the benefit of at...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #43, 2 Versions
This is another study whose difficulty and charm made me determined to make an arrangement that would forgive my technical shortcomings...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #44, Single Version
Even for very advanced players I’m guessing that Czerny’s tempo is unfeasible, at least on a modern piano. Conveniently, #44 is yet...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #45, 4 Versions
For me the most formidable technical hurdle of this study is fingering the grace notes and hitting the right ones at speed (playing the...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #46, 4 Versions
This study is fascinating to read, to hear and (eventually) to play at top speed. Divided between the hands, Czerny’s elaborately varied...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #47, 3 Versions
Czerny wrote many studies, large and small, training repeated note technique in the RH. I use several from different opus #’s for class,...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #48, 2 Versions
I’m not deeply read in music history or musicology, so I don’t know whether there is somewhere a study of the development of fioriture in...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 335 #49, 2 Versions
As ever, a tempo considerably under Czerny’s metronome marking presents the music of #49 very effectively for ballet class. I suggest the...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 355 #50, 3 Versions
This is a wonderful piece to have in your repertory for private practice; the 1st 8 measures of the B section as written make a short,...
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