the opening needs some work. its probably the easiest part notewise, but with that said its fairly difficult, for the amount of notes or movement really in the part, to develop musically and clearly
Thanks everybody for the nice response. I didn't get such a good response with my previous post, but I guess everybody just loves Rachs 2nd. You're probably right, it is actually the place where I had more problem picking the tempo because too slow is dangerous, too fast makes you loose the effect of long crescendo... then also the balance is difficult to obtain, 'cause I actually have pretty "small hands" so I could barely grab the chords, but I think they turned out ok in this sense.
thanks for sharing. it's nice to be able to hear the soloist without the orchestra drowning it out. as far as the performance, i enjoyed it.technically imperfect? wanna hear something funny? wasn't more than twenty years ago i heard Phillippe Entremonte play this with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (live of course, Sir Georg Solti conducting IIRC). yours was much better. lol.the hardest thing about this work for me is preserving the legato (lh and rh) in the arpeggii and fingering with my big clumsy hands.
In fact, the introduction would best not be pedaled - the orchestra can do the job...
I'm hoping to perform it with orchestra soon, I'll keep you posted on that.