Bizet The Complete Piano Works

You might have heard a lot in regards to Rocket Piano. You may be marveling whether it works or is it just another scam like so a good deal of other products. Well… It’s a gravely acclaimed home study course has been very well reviewed ever since it entered the market, not so long ago. It has conventional itself as one of the best courses for pure beginners to learn to play the piano.

As someone who was a finish beginner to not only the piano, but to music all together. When I purchased Rocket Piano, I was exceedingly impressed with the unbelievable detail that was provided in the course. I strongly give hope or courage to you not to skip around. Follow each of the steps precisely as how they are staged to you.

The course does a genuinely good occupation of displaying the importance of both the practical and the theory side. Everything was done in a way that was accessible but not dumbed down.

What most impressed me with regards to Rocket Piano from all the other piano courses that I purchased was the sheer amount of content that is in the package, whether it be the books, the videos, diagrams, etc… There is a lot to go through.

The exercises were actually originative in combining the sensations of sight, sound, and all the other senses to actually make you feel like you are bettering as a piano player.

I may say without hesitation that Rocket Piano is actually a great investment for piano newbies that are too intimidated with the idea of playing a musical instrument. I may surely say that was the case with me.

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A Long Sugary Drink
By J Scott Morrison
There’s a reason that Bizet is not noted for his piano music. That’s because aside from his dramatic ‘Variations chromatiques’ and his piano version of the two ‘L’Arlesienne Suites’ — the latter much better known and truth be told more effective in their orchestral garb — there’s not much that is particularly memorable. (‘Variations chromatiques’ has been much more engagingly recorded by, of all people, Glenn Gould.) Much of the music recorded here was written when Bizet was in his teens and consequently it wouldn’t be fair to expect quite so much from it. Indeed, much of that music sounds like the saccharine salon-music fripperies from composers like Sigismund Thalberg or Henri Herz. It is obvious that Bizet was a talented teenager but he was no Mendelssohn. The ‘Valse in C Major’, the ‘Four Preludes’, the ‘Thème brillant’ and the two ‘Caprices originaux’ were written before Bizet was fifteen, the ‘Nocturne in F Major’ and ‘Grand valse de concert’ when he was barely sixteen. All of them are negligible and they make up the majority of the music on the first CD and much of the second CD of this two CD set.

Things get somewhat better on the second CD. The six ‘Chants du Rhin’ (‘Songs of the Rhine’, 1865) contain much that actually sounds a bit like Mendelssohn’s ‘Songs Without Words’. Most memorable of the six is ‘La bohémienne’, a guitarish gypsy waltz which, however, has little in common with music for his most famous gypsy Carmen from ten years later. This is followed by three pièces characteristiques written to be printed in a publication, the Magasin des familles. The first of these, ‘Méditation religieuse’ supplies themes for the subsequent pieces, ‘Romance sans paroles’ and ‘Casilda’. ‘Venise’ is a bit of a shock because it is identical with Nadir’s familiar ‘Je crois entendre’ from Bizet’s opera ‘The Pearl Fishers’. Pianist Julia Severus takes it faster than one is used to hearing it when sung by the opera’s tenor lead and one recognizes that indeed it is a gently rocking barcarolle. ‘Venise’ is followed by another barcarolle, ‘Marine’, a tender love song. A second ‘Romance sans paroles’ is Chopinesque. ‘Chasse fantastique’ (‘Fantastic Hunt’) has the typical horn-calls of 19th-century hunting songs and a mid-section that effectively depicts the galloping huntsmen’s chase. The second CD ends with the ‘Second L’Arlesienne Suite’.

Julia Severus is a fine pianist and I would like to hear her in other music, but the shallowness of much of this set’s music is unlikely to draw me back to it very often.

Scott Morrison

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Pleasant But Not Memorable
By A reader
This is just pleasant background music, for the most part. There is little stirring or memorable. Not something I would come back to again and again, like Gottschalk’s and Gershwin’s piano works. The playing and recording are excellent. Not a keeper, I’ve already given it away.

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