Today I had the most incredible chamber music coaching with my piano quintet. We are playing the Schumann Piano Quintet.
As masterful and beautiful as this performance is, watching it is now dull for me: that is how very profound the experience was for me. I truly felt the music while knowing the four musicians I was surrounded by, as well as my coach, were feeling it as deeply as I did. We thought, reasoned, experimented, breathed, and laughed together. I know I was making pained/emotional faces that I should probably be very embarrassed of, but looking back, I know I couldn't have done anything else: it was required of the moment. It was an amazing, remarkable experience. I can barely describe it in words. When you feel something so powerful as music with other people, it introduces an incredible connection. I have never known how chamber music, or the making of music in general, to be so greatly fulfilling.
Today's coaching was our second. I can't wait to see what our group will achieve in the year we have together.
I hope you'll enjoy this piece (if you like the first movement, please check out the entire quintet)! It is very romantic, sublime, and captivating. It takes my breath away!
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