Chopin: Prelude opus 28 no 1
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| Ok, this is my first recording ever - and as my recording shows, I was a bit unprepared on the piano the school had (a nice Baldwin). It's a bit too bright and loud, or maybe they're just the school speakers. But here it is. Criticism and comments appreciated. |
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Hello,
Just a quick question, why is this Chopin considered an 8+? I didn't find it to be hard, and as for musicality of my performance, I'm no Rubinstein, but it sounds as good as any other.
And maybe I can double this thread as an introduction and say that I've been playing for two years now, starting with the Mozart k545 and now playing Fantasie-Impromptu. But my theory suffers because I've never done it (and now would be a good time to start, I guess).
If my progress can be considered better than mediocre, I can only attribute that to my lucky acceptance into one of the biggest music schools in Los Angeles (Colburn, but if I'm wrong, correct me). |
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I like this piece, but I'm having a hard time with some of the rhythms.
The majority of the piece is made up of sixteenth-note triplets in 2/8 time, giving it a 6/8 feel. This is all well and good. But at measure 18 it starts to get complicated. The left hand has a sixteenth-note triplet as usual. But now, the right hand has a quintuplet figure which is damn hard to play as a quintuplet, especially on top of the left hand's triplet.
I can see what Chopin might have been getting at here; measures 18-20 all contain these quintuplet-over-triplet rhythms, and the sixteenth rest is dropped from the beginning of each of these measures (in the right hand), which overall gives these three measures a sort of "anxious" quality as they build up to the fortissimo climax at measure 21. It's as if, in breaking from the normal rhythm here, the piece has seen the goal at measure 21 and is "rushing" there.
I have listened to recordings of this piece (Daniel Barenboim is the one that currently comes to mind), and he plays it wonderfully. However, I can't really tell, no matter how hard I listen, how he's really playing these rhythms here. It definitely sounds [i]different[/i] from the normal rhythms, but I can't really say how, other than it does indeed sound "anxious" as I describe.
So, I don't really know how to treat these measures, and I don't quite understand why this rhythm comes back again sporadically as the piece closes. After ms. 18-20, this rhythm comes back again at ms. 23, then again at ms. 25-26. Now, if I try to treat ms. 18-20 "anxiously," how am I to treat ms. 23 and 25-26? In these measures, the piece is relaxing as it moves towards the close.
How do you guys perform this piece? |
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| here's my second try. more agitated. oops. what happened here. i accidentally got the old one. let me try again. |
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i realize this might sound like a rach prelude right now. i'm attempting to lighten up on it . my big question is that i recorded it twice. once with the rh completely in tune with the left in terms of the sixteenth triplets - and one - pretending it was an editors mistake on the first triplet on the top voice (and omitting it entirely). which one do you like? which one do you think chopin intended?
the first one is the way i see it written:
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Hey all,
I have a fingering problem with this piece. Im fine upto bar 15 where it appears you need to play a 5th in right hand between 3-5.
That I can do, but it just makes it pretty awkward. Does anyone have an alternative fingering for this?
Cheers!
SJ
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| Chopin Prelude op.28 nº1 |
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| This prelude serves as the curtain raiser for the set. |
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Hey all, i just did a quick video in my living room playing Chopin Etude op. 10 no 1, and preludes no. 1, 10 and 22. I know the Etude is a bit slow, i'm working on getting it up to speed without making more mistakes than I already do. Let me know what you think.
http://www.webfilehost.com/?mode=viewupload&id=5728800 |
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| Does anyone have any tips on how to practice this piece? When looking at the score, there seem to be polyrhythms in both hands, or am I missing something. |
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