A reader has asked us to identify Alexander Maloffeev’s post-Gershwin encore (38:00 on the video) from this description:
Over an elaborately arpeggiated left hand, the right hand plays a chordal descending major scale of one octave. Starting from the top and going down, the note values are – a half note, two quarter notes, an eighth note followed by a dotted quarter, two sixteenths and a final half note. Recognize it?
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