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Title: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: fnork on July 05, 2013, 11:59:52 PM: Just picked it up again - clearly, a practicing version so far in other words.

https://speedy.sh/C8hFj/CD2I1400-1.m4a
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: j_menz on July 06, 2013, 08:16:25 AM: Quote from: fnork on July 05, 2013, 11:59:52 PM
Just picked it up again - clearly, a practicing version so far in other words.

Hope we get to hear the finished one. This almost makes me like it.
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: furtwaengler on July 06, 2013, 08:23:12 AM: Great clarity in the legato, great musicality and variety of touch. What a beast of a little piece this is! How do you stay so free?
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: fnork on July 06, 2013, 05:56:02 PM: thanks for the comments. its a piece I like coming back to for shorter periods of time, but I wonder if I'll ever be able to play it satisfyingly up to tempo. I've worked on pretty much all of op 10 by now though, so it'd be pretty nice to nail this one too, haha!
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: fnork on July 06, 2013, 05:57:55 PM: Quote from: furtwaengler on July 06, 2013, 08:23:12 AM
How do you stay so free?
slowly...every day...make sure 1-2 are relaxed all of the time (if you take it too fast, they can get tense when they're not playing anything). When practicing slowly, I often play the upper voice mezzo forte or so.
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: ajspiano on July 08, 2013, 12:53:18 AM: Quote from: fnork on July 06, 2013, 05:56:02 PM
its a piece I like coming back to for shorter periods of time, but I wonder if I'll ever be able to play it satisfyingly up to tempo.

I can relate to that.

I enjoyed listening to your recording, I don't mind it at this tempo actually. I find I play it about there myself because I can't manage it faster through the middle section. And of course even in the opening there's a few niggling spots.. things like beats 3-4 of bar 7. Its not overly audible but I can feel it and I know there is limited control there should I want to alter the dynamic much.

..and then I listen to a professional recording and begin to cry thinking about all the hours and intense technical assessment its taken to not be able to play it at tempo. :'(

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make sure 1-2 are relaxed all of the time
This is very relevant yes, if I push the tempo I find my 2 gets a bit locked up in quite a few places.
Title: Re: Chopin op 10 nr 2
Post by: furtwaengler on July 08, 2013, 05:40:33 AM: Quote from: fnork on July 06, 2013, 05:57:55 PM
slowly...every day...make sure 1-2 are relaxed all of the time (if you take it too fast, they can get tense when they're not playing anything). When practicing slowly, I often play the upper voice mezzo forte or so.

I find this advice helpful, something good on which to build.