Friday, February 6, 2009

The 2002 Christmas Album

Most people who will be reading this know I started playing again in July of 2001. In 2002, HP had a forced Christmas shutdown. My extended family decided to spend Christmas in Houston, and rather than Christmas shop, I spent my time recording a subset of works I knew up to that point. I dug out these recordings to add them to the list. These are not recorded from an acoustic piano, but rather my old P80 keyboard.
Given that these were done over 6 years ago, most hold up surprisingly well - to my ear anyway. The phrasing is choppy in a lot of places (esp in the Mozart pieces), but Happy Farmer still sounds good, and I always enjoyed that Flamenco. Blue Christmas is an abomination, though.

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