Piano Forum

Lots of things to say, I'll have some difficulty saying it in English, so if you don't understand please say it.

I think your problem is that you don't really divide the prelude into certain sections, making it all sound rather long and without a goal. This whole prelude seems to be divided in sections of four beats, right from the beginning with the F in the left hand. Immediately after that again a small phrase of four beats, but with a entirely different harmony, maybe you can see the first four beats as a question, and the phrase after that as the answer!

When the sixteenth-notes begin in bar 5  the left hand eighth notes and the sixteenth notes sound the same, the eighth notes are rather similar to the four quarter notes in the beginning, they're also divided into phrases of four (beats/notes), the sixtheenth notes should be not equal to the eighth notes, but rather be floating around them. You could probably have more line in that passage, preferably seeing the eighth notes as the melody. Then the opening comes back, but in my opinion it should be a more different character than the beginning, because the prelude has really developed with the previous passage.

Also you could make more use of the harmonic progression in the piece, it try to play it really slowly and listen to what each chord wants, and why it is there.

Then about your articulation, (might be because of the piano), I often hear accents on the second eigth note of a pair of two eighth notes, like on the third third (e and g) and the sixth in bar 5 (g and e), I would never play them louder than the one before, because it's on a weak beat.

In general I would use the left hand as the most important thing, it really gives more sense! And I hope I don't sound harsh or criticizing, just trying to help . You have the notes down pretty well, so from now on you can really work on all those small things.