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Topic: Chopin Prélude B-Minor (Read 5698 times)

pianowolfi

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Chopin Prélude B-Minor

on: February 28, 2007, 08:21:18 PM

This is a very spontaneous interpretation with just one play-through before. I hope you will like it

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 09:14:39 PM

Perfect, i wounder if you still think like a cello player, the LH melody i gess would sound better on a cello.

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 09:24:44 PM

Oh yes it is a cello melody, but though I prefer the piano

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 09:27:32 PM

I would love to play the melody on a cello.

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pianowolfi

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 09:57:34 PM

Quote from: zheer on February 28, 2007, 09:27:32 PM

I would love to play the melody on a cello.

Though you won't be able to play the low B on a cello because the lowest note a cello can play is a C 2. Ok you could tune it down a half step

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #5 on: March 01, 2007, 12:31:20 AM

Hi pianowolfi,

I like your recording of this Bm Prelude. You let it breathe. Some nice poetic effects too. I've attached my recording, not my best performance of this prelude, but OK. I think I make more of the rise and fall of the contour dynamics in the LH, which also adds a bit more intensity, whereas your rendition is more relaxed. But I also realize you did just one read-through before recording, and you likely would have refined that particular aspect more as well. Anyway, it's always fun to compare interpretations.

David

04 Prelude No. 6 in b David April.mp3 (2366.42 kB - downloaded 114 times.)

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Re: Chopin Prélude B-Minor

Reply #6 on: March 02, 2007, 12:56:41 PM

Although I do not know this piece (I don't listen to the preludes often), I really liked to listen to you. It is very evocative and you make it feel like it is right. Thanks, I liked it a lot.

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