Here is a fairly cool interpretation.What are your thoughts.

   

  Well then you will love her interpretation of the etude in thirds, so effortless .

   

*Shrugz*

Walter Ramsey

Yes, that's thirds is just..it's so natural, she makes it look so easy..

  True, it's music .

When I saw the video of her thirds-etude a few months ago (the one in which she wears a red dress not the green one), I was simply speechless. I had to watch it 3 times to believe it. To my knowledge, no other hands "fly" over this piece with such effortless elegance.

For some reason (maybe memories of pictures) her narrow hands with the long fingers remind me of Liszt's hands.
 

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 Best wishes!

she must be really bright - because that etude is difficult to memorize let alone not let a finger slip in the entire thing.  she's really solid.  and elegant.  it's exactly the way i would want to play this if i could learn the entire thing from memory.  not too bashing. 

it's exactly the way i would want to play this if i could learn the entire thing from memory.  not too bashing. 

I agree, she has indeed the dynamics right. Looking at the score, one realizes that 2/3 of this etude has range going from mp to f. Considering that Chopin tended to play softly due to a personal preference and the pianos of the time -- today this range would easily translate into a p-to-mf range. It is only in the very last part of the etude that Chopin writes a few ff.

And yet, countless pianists hammer this piece down on metallic sounding Steinways (or worse) as if it was written ff from A to Z. Not only wrong but also bad for the hand.

*Shrugz*

Walter Ramsey

I totally agree, Walter.