Today I happened to find this beautiful performance by a magnificent pianist Ming Aldrich-Gan on YouTube, playing Leonard Bernstein’s orchestra score “Candide Overture” on his original piano arrangement. The very piece I arranged the score for playing it on my last Electone (a digital organ) competition when I was a highschool student. Those who don't know "Candide Overture" also worth watching the video, you will be overwhelmed.
I was going to Electone lessons since four till 17 years old, and luckily my teacher gave me the piano lessons too in the final few years of my musical career because I liked the piano better than artificial Electone tunes.
Almost for 20 years since then, I had been completely away from the clavier, until I bought Clavinova (a digital piano) from Furtado, Koregaon Park in March 2012. Since then, I am practising different songs, from classical pieces to the modern fusions, including pop songs including Billy Joel’s “Honesty,” “Just The Way You Are,” and the recent favourite tune of “Let It Go” from the Disney animation movie “Frozen.”
His performance gave me goosebumps and reminded me of the old and familiar excitement of playing the piece I loved the most in my life! He shared his score also online.
This is Leonard Bernstein himself conducted original orchestra version
Just unsure about how tough it would be for me to conquer his work (as some chords need quite finger stretch that my fingers may not reach,) I further searched if anyone is sharing another version, then the following two fantastic performances hit.
This one I may try to reference and write down on a scoresheet.
Cute yet excellent performance as well.
