Waldstein, first movement

[fnork]

One of my major recent projects has been to learn the complete Waldstein sonata. Last week I participated on a course in Stockholm for young pianists and played the first movement on one of the concert. I've been working on this movement for a while now and it has been a lot of fun working on it, it has been very rewarding for my technique. The concert performance wasn't exactly perfect - I had practiced all day and was quite tired at the performance, plus, when I started playing I noticed that it was difficult to get the pianissimo that I wanted in the beginning. There are some tempo changes too which I have to fix.

Anyway, please listen and give comments - tips possibly, if you've worked on the sonata yourself.

[fnork]

16 downloads and no comments? Was it that bad 

[piano121]

hey, you are doing very well. I think you are very close to complete your project. If you can say so... Anyway you r  playing it very well. Do you already play the other movements?

Sorry the recording wasn´t that good.

[counterpoint]

Good work, but in this special mouvement, I would prefer to take the pedal very sparsely. It's often better to use "finger pedal" (let the fingers down but the pedal up). At the beginning, right hand, after the semiquavers, there is often a note to be played staccato.  You play half note tenuto. Is this your intent?
Some sforzati sound extremely brutal, may be its the instrument, but you should care :-)  There are pieces from Beethoven, which need brutality, but here it's too much for my taste.

I think, with some finetuning, you will play this sonata very, very well