https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8EhnLRAncThat's my latest effort. It's as much a triumph of camerawork and editing as one of musicianship.
That prelude is a product of Bach's period in Leipzig, so at home on a Blüthner. He wrote Book 1 of the 48 preludes & fugues about 20 years before he wrote Book 2. I think it's an absolutely lovely piece and did my best with it, honest.
Dez used only two cameras for that - his Panasonic something-or-other for most shots, and a Go-pro for the overhead ones. I played the piece at least 8 times all the way through for each camera angle and then he knitted it all together using Final Cut Pro. The recording was done with one of
these on a flexible tripod. You can see it in some shots sitting inside the piano.
There was one slightly amusing technical hitch in the editing process when Dez discovered that the Go-pro was set to a different frame rate from the other camera. This meant that the sound was raised by about half a semitone! This problem was solved by the computer doing some sums and then recalculating the pitch. Interestingly, we had a similar problem earlier in the year when our choir was practising the Mozart Great C Minor Mass. I bought a recording by John Eliot Gardiner and the Montiverdi Choir and they use period instruments, which are set about a semitone lower than modern ones (A=415Hz, compared to 440Hz for modern instruments). That meant that when we wanted to practise our parts, the recording was out of tune with the piano, which was very annoying. Dez knows how to alter the pitch of MP3 files, so the problem was solved.
