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Piano Board => Audition Room => Topic started by: rallestar on June 10, 2007, 07:38:16 PM
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Here's the first upload by me, a recording of the first movement of Ravels Sonatine - I hope you like it!
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Ahhh isn't this a wonderful piece? I think you got a lot of it already. All in all I think you might play it a bit smoother and not toooo "literally". of course the score is very important. But sometimes I would like to listen a bit more to a chord until it disappears, sometimes a transition is very abrupt, sometimes some sixteenth notes are not enough distinct like in m. 5, second of the sixteenths. One wishes to dream more :) It is such a dreamy atmosphere, sometimes it gets (a bit accidentally) interrupted by something. I like very much how you come out at 2.51, this shows YOUR interpretation :) I also like your ending very much :)
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Thanks for your comments! I definitely agree - Listening to the recording again, it sounds somewhat sharp and disconnected in places. Part of it, I think, may be because I recorded it on my digital piano. I'll try and get a recording on my upright, although that might harm the sound quality :s
The paradox of dreaminess vs. refined elegance is interesting in this piece though, because as with all Ravel, I feel you have to play close to the score, but still leave room for the special impressionistic feel. But the recording I posted is in retrospect too "sharp" - In lack of a better word.
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Here's a new recording, more dreamy now, hopefully.
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You could have left the first recording here, you know, it was not bad in my book :) Anyway, yes, it is more dreamy :) The forte Arpeggios in m.11 are more convincing in the repeat of the first part, the first time I miss a clear first count. You might also bring out some of the dynamic marks more. Well, I think you are on a good path with this piece, over all, and it is important that you enjoy it more and more :) Keep improving your legato and making difference between two layers in parts like the one marked "a tempo", "en dehors". In the recapitulatin this sounds a bit too "weighty" on every eighth note, I find that you play this better in the exposition. I still like your "passioné" approach, it's like a positive interruption of the dreaming. Okay so far for now. Keep it up :)