Brahms Op 116-1 is a good pice to show your skills?

[presto agitato]

What do you think?

Thanks

[imbetter]

good piece, but nothing special. A lot of Brahms miniatures are like that.

[danny elfboy]

What do you think?

Thanks

When you have skills you show them with everything.
I have known graduated pianists with great technique, coordination and easy of playing.
You could tell the skills was real because even when they were playing a very easy and early grade piece you could already tell they had such marvellous coordination. The way they could make so musical and interesting even so simple piece, the steady impulses in their playing the perfect phrasing. Those that really needed some hard virtuoso piece to show off were actually showing off the piece itself but if you asked them to play something elementary there was not all that complexity and redondant sound to hide behind.

[opus10no2]

This is one of my favourite pieces.

It is not a piece for showing speed, but it can be used to show command of sonority and dramatic bravura.

[tds]

What do you think?

Thanks

and lack thereof. this is not an easy piece by any stretch of the imagination. i find the decending lh octaves are impossible to be executed in the dynamic marking brahms had in mind, i.e diminuendo: the piece goes so fast, the string gets larger and longer on the way down. fast octave on the way down naturally produces a crescendo, specially when you have to use to the damper.

the best attempt i could once made was a mixture of some decresc. in some of this octave figuration, and no crecendo in the rest of them, but no decrescendo either.

tds