prongated, didn't you sleep well...?
But it has temperament and emotion and it lives.
I'm surprised - this is very eccentric. You're just indulging yourself there I think. Interesting voicing distorts everything else, tempo is too fast than you can handle (esp. middle section; and the beginning is maestoso!!), not to mention the random rubatos...I just can't listen to/enjoy it ><It probably didn't matter much if everybody thinks you're Horowitz - although even so I doubt very much he'd get away with it. Sorry if I don't sound too pleasant - this is one of the worst performance of Chopin Ballade 1 I've heard in my life. And unexpected, judging by some of your other performances on youtube.
It doesn't bother me that you find an interpretation unique to yourself, but it is offensive to actually change what Chopin wrote, as you have done. If what Chopin wrote wasn't appropriate or the best thing, he would have just been an amateur composer - this he was NOT.Anyway, you have a decent technique and fairly good control over voicing - so don't let my post spoil your day.
But, there is no "Maestoso" written anywhere by Chopin, is it?
and, the 1st theme is "Moderato" (surely not slow) in a compound duple time (6/4) where we have 2 beats in a bar with a feeling compound time (like triplets) and we cannot lose any of these elements. I did it with phrasings.
Those Voicings I did it because it's beautiful and it emphasizes the 6/4 time... The RH blended away by the natural singing phrase and comes up with those syncopation to the 6/4 time.... like 2 singers... that what i was doing... sorry if it doesn't convince you. In my opinion, if we read the LH line as a choral line... it confirms that these voicing should be heard, isn't it?
Thanks for this comment as well but sorry i'm not agree... I believe I didn't make anything but those written by chopin, well,... ofcourse, except those wrong notes and missing sounds.
Oh and three cheers for the Bosie 225.
As far as the recording quality: The piano appears to be a Borsendorfer.
A Stienway O??? Wait a minute guys - the video show him playing on a Bosendorfer 225 - It says Bosendorfer on the side and when he leaves the stage you can see the size. Are my eyes deceiving me? Or is this some kind of joke?
prongated, didn't you sleep well...? This is an incredible good performance, I don't have words how good it is. It's one of the best g minor ballads I ever heard. My highest compliments to classical pianist!!!
It's just a bad piece. I wish I never learned it. At least he is trying to make it interesting instead of the 1000s of horrendous flat performances... But still, such a horrible piece...