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Ben Clapton

Performance, plus premier of composition

November 13, 2005 at 2:53 PM

I had a performance today - played two movements of Bach C major sonata, plus the first movement of the Mozart Concerto no 4 in D major. The bach was going great, best performance i've done all year, but one mistake in the fingerings and it threw me off and i had a memory lapse in the final movement that I couldn't recover from. But hopefully I got a pretty good recording of the largo, and also of the mozart which went pretty well. Hopefully you should see it up here by the end of the week.


I also had the debut of my composition, Instinctus et magnus. Now I'm a bit more excited about this one because it was really well received and performed well. I have already put the recording onto my computer, and as I write am in the process of putting it on my website, so I'll provide the link and it will be there soon.

Download Instinctus et magnus from Ben's website

I've got my exam tomorrow, which I am quietly confident about, after how well my playing went today (even though I stuffed up with my memory.)

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