Chopin - Fantasie Impromptu

[kartman]

Overplayed or not, I just love this piece...
It was relatively easy to learn the notes and make it sound impressive to friends and family. It's a lot harder though to make it musically right.
I'd love to hear your feedback!

[ganymed]

hey who cares if its overplayed ! FI is one of chopins best compositions .
all i can say really well done , I like the way you play. Above all the very fast runs at the beginning  sound very fluent and exactl to me. But it would be nice if you would play at
1:00 with more passion,fire and power. The part before it switches the section B.
  How long did it take you to learn this piece. And how many years do you play piano already?

[teresa_b]

  That is excellent!!!  How did you record it?

Please post some more.
Teresa

[piano121]

that´t great. Beautifull performance. It did impress me to! . You got the notes, and everythingright. I´m working on this piece right now, hope to show you in the future!

The thing about this piece beig easy to learn, is relative. I think it depends a lot on when you learn it. If you already have the technique, have played other dificult stuff, it´s indeed not as hard as it seems to be. But, and its a big "but', if you try if to soon, it might be extremely dificult, because tou need some expansion on your fingers, as well as the dificulty of playing 8 notes on RH against 6 notes on the LH. I have listend to this piece played by student´s without the right technique, and it was disastrous, believe me.

btw, is it a digital piano right?

Keep up the great work!

[ganymed]

i would like to know that too which piano did you use for recording?

[kartman]

Hey, thanks for your feedback and nice words everybody! It's great to hear that you like my recording so much.

I recorded this piece on my digital piano: Kawai CA7.
I played piano from age 7 to 16. In the next 10 years after that I stopped taking lessons, and played only very sporadically (only learnt like 3-4 new pieces in those years). 1,5 years ago I picked up the piano playing again (no lessons anymore). I learnt fantasie impromptu when I was 16. Took me around 3 months to learn I think. In my 2nd piano life I spent a few weeks to get it up to standard again, and in the last 2 months I kept improving it so, it's better now than it was before my long break.

I agree with what you said about the difficulty of the piece piano121. It's all very relative. And beginning players better don't attempt to play this piece too early. I just found it striking though that when you listen to the piece it sounds as if the notes are extremely fast and difficult, while in reality the notes aren't actually the hardest challenge of the piece.

[jozart]

Hi Kartman,
I heard your Chopin yesterday but ran out of time to respond.  Your playing is excellent and I like your interpretation. I would like to suggest another piece that you could do really well and have a great time playing. Chopin Etude Op 25 No 2. It has continuous melody like the A section of the impromptu and is absolutely fun to play. Maybe you do it already?
Thanks for posting...looking forward to more.
joe

[ail]

I liked your playing very much. It seems to right in every respect :-)
Congratulations. Wish I could play it like you.

Alex

[rachfan]

Hi kartman,

You do a very fine job with this Fantasie.  You have a wonderful dexterity and suppleness combined with a flawless evenness of touch.  When you combine all that with velocity, expressiveness and drama in this piece, you have the listener's attention.  A great performance! 

[anastazia]

Hey kartman!
Wow,  that was really nice! you're so talented! you put forth a lot of emotion in the playing: i love it
wish i could play like that...
~anastazia