S. RACHMANINOFF. Piano Concerto 4, Miami Piano fest, V. Gryaznov - GPHIL

Miami Piano Festival, 2022 Recording engineer: Javier G. Herrera 0:00 I. Allegro vivace 10:09 II. Largo 17:04 III. Allegro vivace Finally, I have a video of the action. This is my very first public performance with my own app called G-Phil (Gryaznov Philharmonic). I have always been passionate about the piano concerto genre, playing lots of them as a soloist and many as an orchestra substitute on the second piano. The idea behind the app was to create a realistic, powerful, and emotionally rich orchestral track that will be in sync with my taste and ideas. It was built via an orchestral sample library and a midi sequencer by myself, from scratch, learning on the way how to use those tools, what to expect from them, and what not to. I learned the full score quite well by doing that, and I think it’s the major positive outcome of the whole process. Turned out that the app intended to be used mostly at home for personal training can be used in a live concert environment. Recently I performed Rachmaninoff 3 twice, back to back, with a really wonderful orchestra in New London (Maestro Toshi Shimada was the conductor), and with the app in Boise, Idaho, people loved it! It’s not easy to make samples “alive“, but I tried hard to reproduce what I absolutely love about the real orchestra. I tried to imagine every instrument, how a real person would play his part, how the orchestral groups would act separately and all together - and crafted each part individually, from the very first to the very last note. I recorded all the parts independently using a midi keyboard and mixed them later. It’s a lot of fun and inspiration to be in complete charge of everything, in the middle of the action so to speak and choose which direction to go. I would never know how brilliant the score of Rachmaninoff no 4 is (and all other concertos I’m doing right now) if I didn’t start this project. Technical explanation: I divided each movement into several sections according to the orchestra entrances, and, by pressing a page-turner pedal I can start the orchestra when I need, and to be absolutely free in the solo parts. Each section has a few tempo options, so I can change the tempo depending on my feeling before playing. The app was in a very fresh state at the time of the performance, so you’ll witness a funny blooper in the middle of the 3rd movement when I accidentally pressed the pedal twice and two sections were playing at the same time. I never used such a pedal so it was a miracle that there were no more serious accidents :) I fixed it later and now the system is pretty reliable and convenient. Also, in the recent version I don’t have to do anything between the movements, the whole concerto can be loaded as one playlist, remembered as a session, and reloaded later on with all the tempo options. I made a simple web interface for the app’s functionality and called it a day. It’s still in heavy development, and for sure will be for a while, but the core is already out there. There are already a couple of piano concertos available in the library, and a few are in development, check them out. I work alone so far and code/produce everything myself. I know it’s not ideal. But your feedback can help me to understand my faults/achievements/future goals. Please let me know what you think about the whole thing in the comments below. The app lives at If you like the idea and wish to support this project, consider being my Patreon team member/coffee provider/direct Paypal sponsor. Your sponsorship will help me to delegate some tasks to the right people (such as coding, UI development, account management, and so on). The links are below: Thank you, everyone. I hope to make the app really helpful and enjoyable to use.