Prelude no.15 - Live Performance by Henry Ng

Hello!

Here's a funeral march type piece. Form and harmony are very static and simple, in Fm with an A | A1 | A2 form. Hope you enjoy, and as always, any comments are welcome 🙂 

Hello @Thatguy v2.0

After I thoroughly listen to the piece, here are my thoughts.

Playability: The prelude is certainly playable for pianist at late intermediate through late advance skill level.  Everything is well marked throughout the score. (There are no questions about the accidentals).  

Motive(theme): The theme is well devolved thorough out the piece. 

Harmony: The harmonic colors underlaying the minor theme create sense melachony. 🙂 

Form: A, A1. A2 is well done. 

Tone(taste): This piece reminds me of Pictures of exhibition in some way. I love Mussorsky works. 🙂  

I got my piece to play for today 😁

Yo Vince,

I really love the sensitivity of the harmony in this one. I love the constant false relation of Eb and E in b.4 and subsequent bars. There's real pain in this one whether it's personal or worldwide issue, and it's painful to play as well. Thx for sharing and hopefully writing this helps.

Henry

The slowly moving bass chords sound like they would tell a wondrous, but very sad tale. It feels like you mix a more modern handling of dissonances etc with romantic traditions, and this makes the prelude very colourful. At least many shades of grey. The build-up to m.27 is especially nice. The form also works well for this short piece. Thanks for sharing!

On 1/10/2026 at 6:15 PM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

I got my piece to play for today 😁

you rock

And thanks everyone for listening!

On 1/12/2026 at 4:40 PM, Willibald said:

At least many shades of grey.

Exactly my take, friend 🙂

Updated the mp3 with Henry's performance. If anyone's interested, he didn't listen to the mp3 render first 😄

Henry = 🔥

6 hours ago, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Exactly my take, friend 🙂

On 1/13/2026 at 6:40 AM, Willibald said:

At least many shades of grey.

LoL I am not familiar with idioms at all and thought you guys are talking about Fifty Shades of Grey!

Henry