performance questions on various pieces

[rachmanny]

hello, im practicing romance from tchiakovsky and i want to know how much do i have to accentuate my left hands in the polyfonic passages, where it seems to be comunicating another idea. I want to get the best sound possible. i have half of it down already, but i really dislike the allegro, it keeps me from going from enjoying that part of the piece.

another question related to another piece:

rach´s prelude op.28. i can play the agitato very well but it doesn´t feel right unless i use a little pedal. Can this be done in any piece at all? i guess i should practice it slowly without pedal, but the problem is that im too used to it . I even use it when it isnt required.   


first movement of chopin s piano concerto no.1 (rondo). I love this piece but im killing myself trying to do that arpeggio pasasge up to speed¨: C,#G,#F,#R, OCTAVE, C, #G,#F, R, OCTAVE, C,#G,#F,R,C  and so on in another arpgeggio chord.   i do quite well about 3 quarters the velocity, i try to kick it up and it becomes a mess, but the rest is good, at least up to what i have learned which is about 5 pages. As for performance, how should i  express the meaning of this piece, what should i think of maybe. 

chopin etude no.4, I swear i get internal bleeding in my fingers everytime i try this, theres so much tension, i know the whole thing but im technically dead at it, i consider it the hardest piece im trying , not because of performance, cause its to darn fast.

Please help, especially with that last piece, something tells me im never gonna be able to do since im practicing only on weekends, but im giving it a shot.

rachmanny

rachmannny

[molto-marcato]

Of which Rachmaninoff prelude are you talking about? There are op. 3/2 , op.23 set and op.32 set.

For the chopin etude i guess you are talking about op. 10 No.4 . It is one of the hardest of this set. Did you play any other? usually if something hurts, you're doing something wrong. Continuation could lead to injury.

[rachmanny]

im sorry, it is rachmaninoff´s op. 3 no. 2, i keep confusing het opus number with scriabin´prelude op. 28 , i love that piece. As for copin 10-4, it doesnt really hurt its just hard to do, (i exagerated about the internal beeding) if there is a problem it would be a little tension. i want the notes to come out clean and crisp,  im amost getting there. I havent done any other chopin etude before this, which  would be recommended to open the correct tecnical  paths to the 10-4?

[ramseytheii]

chopin etude no.4, I swear i get internal bleeding in my fingers everytime i try this, theres so much tension, i know the whole thing but im technically dead at it, i consider it the hardest piece im trying , not because of performance, cause its to darn fast.

rachmannny

You didn't give us a lot of information, but I would say: stroke the keys like you are petting a cat when you play this etude!  That may free you up.

Walter Ramsey