Mozart "Makeover" Fantasy in D minor K. 397

[matterintospirit]

Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts. and thnx to my little digital recorder. I see better now the direction i need to go in. i like this version better (except for flubbing a run and few other control problems), and see more what i need to work and refine etc. i have an "improved" concept/picture of the peice now, i think. never wuz very "Mozartian." 

[pianistimo]

wow.  what a difference a tuning makes!  and, your playing is pearly and the endings aren't all staccato - but a nice combo of different types of detachments. 

[matterintospirit]

wow.  what a difference a tuning makes!  and, your playing is pearly and the endings aren't all staccato - but a nice combo of different types of detachments.  you have a semi-paralyzed lh at times - like your fourth and fifth finger like to play together.  but, that's ok.  so do i.  at least we're not like schumann and haven't completely broken our fingers.  that control that you get between the fourth and fifth comes from a lot of practice.  i'm just getting back into more practice, too.  too bad we don't get paid for practicing. 
[/quote===oh, i didn't tune it---just repositioned the mic and it changed the sound--didn't really pratice the peice though. just ran through once while recording---sort of a first draft---. wuzn't aware of problem with fourth and fifth LH fingers---referring to accompiniment figure in LH at the end maybe?---there i'm used to a quicker tempo, and when i relaxed the tempo, LH wouldn't slow down---lack of control. i licken playing this peice to standing outside in public naked---everything all hangs out! i plan to practice different parts and reshape how i hear it. looking forward to that---thanks for your thoughts.

[pianistimo]

you licken it to that? 

i didn't realize repositioning a mic could give a lot more harmonics to the sound.  it's exactly the way i like to hear it. 

when you have those repeated notes (same note) i think you could make the first two crescendo and the last two graded slightly under the dynamics of the first one and decrescendoing.

[matterintospirit]

"liken" it to that. just can't get myself to proofread these things!
don't know that i agree with the cresc, although i think it could be toned down a bit. truthfully more at home with the romantic, impressionist, and anything that's more "physiological" so to speak. oh, the piano sounds great in person. you might be interested in reading under my "steinway B---help"post. was having terrible problems with sluggish action and god awful tone but had tech work on it and problem solved.