Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement

[bonesquirrel]

This is nothing super serious. Just wanted to hear peoples opinions on my playing. https://clyp.it/3fftof1a - Please like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/adameddiflowers

[pianogeek_]

Nice work! Good overall balance, quite thoroughly enjoyable. (Nice recording quality as well.)

...did you skip a section around 2:13? Ah, memory.

Nitpicking:

- Rubato on the first beat is a good tool to have in the box, but don't overdo it. In the first phrase, I prefer singing out the bass as a single melodic line, a single statement, and save rubato for later. (This is, I guess, a personal preference.)
- The dotted notes on the g# are an upbeat. They should work *up* towards the long note on the 1st beat of the next bar. Don't accent the first one. This is probably the only slightly serious issue I have with your performance, the others are really just nitpicks.
- Don't forget that at the ends of some melodic lines, there is a descending 5th. It's on the bottom of the accompaniment triplets, but it's a melodic note.
- Generally: sometimes, decrescendos in a melodic phrase are a bit... abrupt? (1:49) It is one way of dealing with getting the phrases to a smooth ending, but - unless you already have - I'd think about this a bit more.

Nitpicking, but positively:
- Nicely done dissonance on the minor 9ths in RH.
- Well done on the ending.
- Interesting idea with the mega-rubato around 3:26/3:40 (I'd pick just one of these for such an extreme agogic twist, but nevertheless, the idea has merit.)

Personal preferences on which we differ - stuff you might want to try out: I'd be a bit more stingy with the rubato.

Overall, nice job!

[bonesquirrel]

Thank you I will talk all those things you marked as picky and attempt to apply them.

I appreciate your input and look forward to hearing from you in the future