The definitive traumerei is arguably when HOROWITZ returned to Mother Russia and performed this LIVE in Moscow, probably the most revered assigned broadcast ever in classical music, for a reason.

You however, did it your way and i'm still impressed by how you pulled it off.

My favourite personal piece that I almost every day play, try, is traumerei. It's true. I wish i could play it for your vid, but indeed I would steer you to the Horowitz version within a second.

Sting is how to get several sources of audio ready for combination with video material.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7n...

As I hinted I am not knowledgable on how to mix audio from a vid with video/photos from another Youtube vid or other sources and combine them, and edit it.

Kinderszenen is a sort of Poetic Pianistic Journey and consists of 13 "easy" parts, small pieces, and here is the complete set, and as I said - personally - I feel very appropriate in connection to the Tal "movie" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz2...

Schumann is considered a composer at the hight of Romanticism, but the Classical beauty and underlying structure is unmistakeable and of all ages. Hope you enjoy!

What a jinx eh? I downloaded over fifty classical Mp3s looking for the pieces I wanted.

Yes the <traumerei> is meant to end just before the drama of the World Championship match- where <Chopin's frenzy> takes over.

The final chapter of Tal is scored with ambient composer <Jon Serrie's> version of a Christian hymn about grace and death.

It's not hard to match music with images on the movie software.

You can stretch or shrink the images to suit exact musical cues.

Of all the pieces I downloaded, it was the <Traumerei> that moved me most.

The Horowitz is a vastly superior - thanks for that-

But I felt lucky to find a no fuss no muss free Classical download site so I decided to get the MP3s there.

What a deft touch- timing, grace, emotion-

Schumann and Chopin, (the "simpler" passages/pieces) are indeed my favourites to play, and are instrumental, heh, in finding and retrieving my balance.

I do love the "older" Horowitz with all my heart, and he managed to convey something very rare in pianistic freedom, lyricism and Art, and in Art in general, those last years of his life... You obviously also feel it and notice it from those clips as you described, that are just a few (couple) years before he passed away.

Seems eerily appropriate to accompany Tal, and the synchronicity and thematic linkage among these two "artists" is striking.

And then some tears may flow, and it's all good.

<Niels> I'm currently auditioning tons of music for a <Paul Keres> movie- any suggestions?

One of my favourite Mozart concertos ever, and very suitable for emotional and contemplative moments in videos of this kind is this one:

Concerto in E-major 2nd movement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lqd...

I was just going to report to you that I was favoring including the very dramatic aria "Contessa" from Mozart's Figaro to coincide with <keres'> dramatic tie-breaker to win the "Unofficial World Championship" at AVRO (holland- heh) in 1938.

Unfortunately the War got in the way of <Keres> playing <Alekhine> for the Title.

Not to mention the Soviets burning his country down during this time.

At any rate-

Just one correction to what I wrote:

Piano Concerto in E-major was "flat" out wrong, it was of course Opus 23 in A major, and the second movement is in F-sharp minor...

Gotta have my key signatures in order otherwise it's all in vein. USELESS!! heh.

This one will be a "two parter".

"Paul Keres: the Crown Prince of Chess" Part one.

This segment covers his birth up until 1943.

I tried to make the historical information more clear in this one, so I did a great deal of research. The images- almost all of them- match the correct part of his life timeline. I also tried to make it more visually dramatic- matching the images to the timing of the soundtrack- although I doubt it would have any appeal to anyone who wasn't interested in the history of chess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhft...

The "zoom ins" work more than very well with me; and I recognize Kasparow's youthful look from your previous vid... MOST important to convey the eyes and their radiation, and all know how well Black and White are able to convey that.

I never realized how special <Paul Keres> was until I saw your video, part 1, of him.

Thanks to your enthusiastic- and detailed- response, I'm resolved to carry on with the musical choices/photographic effects theme I started in Part one.

What I am trying to say is follow your leads and instincts as you have them developed sofar, just embrace the (already very good) results, essentially keep exploring and possibly improving as you go along.-- By definition you will get better at what you do, and various new ideas and approaches will come your way, and you'll be able to experiment, and add some elements here, and take away one there...

Not getting into a fixed mode, I think, can only be a good thing; go for diversity in approaches, avoid throwing in too much, over-pacing, and the opposite of course, and HAVE FUN assembling your material, and experiment. You have already gained experience by making clips along with Andrew's music.

Anyhoo- don't doubt yourself too much, if at all, and looking back it will only be an asset to see your work develop.

BTW - I did some editing and stuff years ago with old-fashioned multiple video- and audio recorders, and created some "docu-type" films on various themes in Classical and Jazz music, but the tools you have at your disposal are of course of a whole new dimension, and offer their own limitations and new possibilities.

Like with Andrew's mixing I will of course give you my honest opinion if you ask me to; no sugar-coating baby!!

I see you are as adept a video making coach as chess coach.

No surprise there-

I have completed Part Two of

<"Paul Keres: The Crown Prince of Chess"> now and it's just processing on Youtube as I type.

Again I tried to make a balance between the "knowledgeable chess fan" and the "other people" (like me for example).

I tried to get and present the historical facts as accurately as possible without confusing anyone who doesn't know about chess history.

In that vein I refer to the "Candidate's Matches" when in fact they were tournaments up until the one in Riga.

I just watched it as the <first viewer>!! - which is a "first" for me... I went to your Profile and saw <Part 2> pop up, and went right in!

I'm just looking for <Geller> photos- it seems there aren't any.

Possibly he lacked the staggering good looks of the young <Keres>.

I think it a bit scandalous that there are so few photos of a man who has a plus record against <Fischer>.

And he only met <Fischer> in the big giant tournaments of the CLASSICAL ERA of chess when they played CLASSICAL TIME CONTROL and everyone was a lot more CLASSY if you ask me.

Not necessarily in their behavior, mind you.

Ok then.

After that I'm doing an <AA Alekhine> film for his shrine, and I'm doing a <Fischer film> last-

I'm going to try to do something different than what I've seen on youtube with Bobby, and there are over 300 million photos of him.

I'm also seen the 4 documentary films on him so I won't be rehashing that ground- much.