Chopin: Ballade 1 opus 23
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 Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op 23 (Work in progress)
May 13, 2011, 05:19:23 AM by perfect_pitch
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Here is a recording of Chopins 1st ballade in g minor. I know it get's a little dodgy in a couple of little areas, but my main goal in the near future is to get this up to a proper professional level of playing.
ANY advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. If you hear a couple of notes, that don't sound wrong, but sound a bit odd - one of my g strings is still a little dodgy since I got it replaced. I was told it can still be another couple of months before it retains its tension again and holds its pitch.
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Ballade g-minor op. 23
March 13, 2011, 08:35:26 AM by emilye
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I need a help, because I play this ballade quite good but ... I can't play fluent one moment in this piece and it's technically really awful moment  I think about bars after famous waltz awww. I can't to fit together my hands and always right or left hand to miss and to stop in this moment. What can I do? 
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Chopin G Minor Ballade
February 06, 2011, 01:07:13 AM by becky8898
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Hi All. Im working on this Ballade and there is one measure im curious about. Its the measure before the Presto con Fuoco section. Chopin begins the measure with eight notes in the right hand then he changes to an eight note triplet and then to sixteenth notes. The notes are getting shorter in value. And yet, almost every recording I have ever heard of this has the tempo slowing right before the start of the Presto. Now my score has no temp indications at this point. Nothing to indicate a ritard. Obviously all this recordings the artists are employing rubato I cant help but wonder why Chopin wrote it this way. IM sure im missing something since it does seem so natural to slow down a tad before starting the next section. Thanks for any answers.
Cheers, Becky
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Chopin Ballade 1
June 05, 2010, 09:09:42 PM by pianoman1245
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Hi everyone, this is my first post & first time submitting anything. I'm an 18 year old student with a recital coming up; I was looking for some alternate opinions on my musical interpretation of this piece.
I recorded up to the Coda, because I'm still working on that section. It was recorded via my iPhone, and my piano has seen better days (needs to be tuned at least), which both obviously effect the recording, so take it for what it is, please. Some loud sections get distorted and sound like they have mistakes when they actually don't, and sometimes it sounds like the left overpowers the right (in the intro to the second theme, for example), but that's really due to the iPhone microphone. I just thought I should clarify that before I posted.
Thank you so much in advance for the comments.
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Ballade in G minor Op 23 - Chopin
December 10, 2009, 09:15:16 PM by adapa
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Hellu! Ive had an on and off relationship with this ballade, and i figured id share it with the community here I know it isnt perfect but its so fun to play this piece so its a real challenge to sit down and practise those insecure bars.
Feel free to comment!
Oh and in the end i didnt know what to do with my hands, so the result is me looking like an dumbass. So if you dont like the playing just skip to the last seconds, its fun to watch 
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Chopin Ballade No. 1 G-minor
November 25, 2009, 08:58:43 PM by peolainen
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Hello!
I'm thinking about trying to master the first ballade of chopin.
My current reportoire consists of the following pieces:
Rach Prelude op. 23-5, op. 3-2
Chopin Etude 1, 12, Fantasie Impromptu
Debussy Suite Bergamasque
Brahms 6 pieces op. 118 (not finished with all)
Would it be to hard at this moment?
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Chopin Ballade in G Minor, help?
November 16, 2009, 06:23:59 AM by omar_roy
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Hello all, long time no see. The new Major has been time consuming, but I find myself more in love with the piano now that I am not chained to it! I still take lessons with the piano department head and she treats me as though I'm still a Piano Performance Major, so all is well!
With that out of the way I am having troubles with Chopin's G Minor ballade. If it makes any difference to anyone, I am using the Henle edition.
Measures 48 through 53, when the right hand crosses over the thumb on D to land on the F# and Bb with fingers 2 & 4 respectively I have to hit an A natural with the 3rd finger after landing on that interval. No matter how I drill it or how long I let it rest, I just can't seem to get it to be even and precise. My 3rd finger either clips the note short, doesn't sound the note, or runs into the Ab. It's fine on the "upper" F#/Bb to A natural, but the problem resides when I cross over to the "bottom" interval and then have to hit the A natural.
Also, any advice for the octave passages from measures 119 through 123? I'm having trouble with tension in the shoulder as I accelerate through the octaves.
Thanks in advance.
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Music Notation Question (Chopin's 1st Ballade - G minor)
October 11, 2009, 06:49:52 AM by mollys
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Hi -
When you have a group of eighth notes connected by a beam, what does it mean when one of these notes is unfilled (hollow). For example, I'm looking at Chopin's first ballade (g minor, op. 23).
In Bar 8 when the time signature changes to 6/4, you see five notes in the treble clef connected by a beam. The first of these notes is unfilled. I assumed at first that this means that you hold this note for the value of two eighth notes before moving on to the next note. But now I'm wondering if it means you hold it "while" playing the next note. I'm confused because when I listened to recordings of this by professionals, at least from the few I checked it doesn't appear to me that they hold it longer. Also, I tried to check by adding up the value of everything in the bar, because it's supposed to total to six beats in a measure with the quarter note getting the beat. When you do this, there doesn't appear to be room for this to be held longer.
Alternatively, if it means you're supposed to hold it "while" playing the next note, this doesn't make sense to me because you pedal through this entire section anyway according to the pedalling marks, so it would have no effect on the sound produced. Anyway, thanks.
You can see the first page of the score here:
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/look_inside/5001081/image/232712
I'm using a different edition (Henle Urtext). It shows the same thing.
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