Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

The first time I feel like your account is spamming!! Like the video anyways and it’s good to revisit them. Henry

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For me the tail of a fugue subject is always less strict than the head, so I think your fugal statements are ok. Just make sure to follow useful suggestions from above and you will write better counterpoint! Henry

Hi @Aw Ke Shen ! I actually did this before when I was young, as I always press the middle pedal of an upright to practice so everything is muted. I did this to strengthen my fingerings though. Your learning approach as you describe would be mainly aural and theoretical, but there are also some people who learn by auditory or manual method, so it really depends. My recent learning approach would be to play the piece as close as the original tempo with all details. By forcing myself to so many things happening I actually learn faster than just grabbing details first, probably because I’m an N person (intuitive) in MBTI instead of an S person (sensory), so I need to grab the big picture before going into details first. Henry

Do all 10 now because lunch is over!

Just by reading Caplin's Classical Form will be ok? Henry

You are so lovely Vasilis! Thx to you I met new ppl in your channel! To me I wrote it and conceive the piece really as a “Musical Moment”, which means I never thought deeply in how to develop the piece or so, but only get directly from my heart to write what I want. Maybe those emotions are long stored in me and I just took them out in this piece. My writing motto is simple: Be honest. By listening your playing I know we are connected. If we aren’t you won’t play this great. Maybe the beauty is hidden in the piece, but it’s you who excavate them out! You for sure love the piece more than I did!! Nah you have to admit that your playing is better! 🤩 But thx for enjoying playing the piece, it makes me feel happy and honoured! ❤️ Henry

My pleasure to play it! I thoroughly enjoy it! As you’ve said in my Musical Moment, sometimes performers can look into a piece in a different perspective or approach that even the composer doesn’t think of, but all the notes and inspiration come from the composer himself! Plus, I’m also a composer myself so I love creating things from any score, whether it’s written, not written or even against it haha. Thx for dedicating one of your favourite works to me! That makes it more special! Henry

To tell you the truth, I don’t love this piece that much until Vasilis played it. To me I only wrote it in 2 days and hence not much emotion with it (not like my Sextet or Quintet when I wrote them for years hence have a lot of emotions towards them), but Vasilis excavated the essence of my piece out, plus his own interpretation of the piece. Big thx to him! And a thx to you for loving the piece! Henry

Hi @Grant Weep ! You should, I agree that Vasilis’s version is much better than mine!😄 I think it’s just our different stylistic choice. For this whole piece I didn’t think much and just let the music grow itself. I could have changed the 1st and 2nd crotchet with different thickness though I didn’t haha! Haha that’s a REAL BIG compliment from you! Please keep giving me constructive criticism haha! Thank you! Henry

Hi @Lucky ! Thx a lot for your engraving suggestion! I know it’s one of my major weakness and I look to improve it! I even got a copy of the book myself! Thank you! This complement is more than enough for me! Henry

Hey my Vasilis! I feel bad not to reply earlier since this piece is dedicated to me! For me at first I find the piece humorous to listen to, but only by playing it I realise all the details and contrast of different passages. This piece is again primarily Scarlattian and Schubertian, the energy and phrasing is Scarlattian while the harmony, like the modal texture and Augmented sixths, neopolitan sixths are Schubertian. I really enjoy playing it! It’s much more difficult than the score appears since there are lots of details. Also I occasionally ignore your markings because I feel the piece in a different way haha. For example in section B I feel like the piece can be more dramatic, so I ignore the decrescendos. Thx a lot for dedicating this piece to me! Henry

Hi all, I'm overjoyed to share a recording of this plece played by my dear friend @Vasilis Michael ! He completely captures the calmness and serenity of the piece with many details, and he plays the piece better than I do, and he understands the piece more than I do, and he excavated something from the piece I don't. What an honor to have such a great friend playing this great recording of my piece!! Thank you Vasilis! Henry

Yup, they are 陸王心學 instead of Zhu XI's 理學. And I really love them! I didn't go through them one by one, but I did read some Chinese philosophy books so I can basically grasp their thoughts. And their thoughts are essential in this piece of music. Thank you! I love that section too, it's definitely the climax of the 1st movement! I'm not that knowledgeable about Chinese music either so I don't know why I write like this, but in case the product is good it's good haha. But the Chinese spirit is true, I write this piece totally because I'm inspired by Chinese philosophy. Yeah again I don't know how I wrote that! Thank you! Thank you! Henry

I YT search your Professor's name and find this one: A wonderfully contemplative piece! Not that atonal to me haha. Henry