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Topic: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in g minor  (Read 5456 times)

Offline utterlysneaky

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Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in g minor
on: February 23, 2011, 01:47:23 PM
My take on this prelude, one of my favorites.
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Re: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in g minor
Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 11:03:26 PM
Interesting rendition. I think it needs very little more to sound good. One of those little details is, in my opinion, the excess of rubato in the first bars which I think it breaks the rhythm and continuity of the piece. I'm not saying to play it metronomically but to have a more consistent pulse. The listener must always feel the sensation of bars and pulse, this is not against doing a passionate and expressive rendition, they can be compatible. Another detail is some accents out of place but I don't know if those are due to the digital piano.

I think you have all the ingredients to do a fine version of this prelude.

P.S. I also think that using a real piano would be interesting. Do you have possibilities to record on a grand?  :)

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Re: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in g minor
Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 10:09:17 AM
Yeah, basically I agree this prelude I somehow almost always pick a slower starting tempo than I want to and end up speeding up in the left hands octaves if not before that, should work on that more.. I'm not sure which accents you refer to? There is a quite beatiful hidden melody in the right hand thumb in this prelude, right at the same time of those left hand octaves, I like bringing it out for at least one or two bars..but to each his own as they say :)

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Re: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in g minor
Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 11:27:16 AM
ON THE OTHER HAND, this did sound contrived and pedantic.  It might be the piano - I gather it's an electronic keyboard, right? - it just sounded like so many hammers rapping out the rhythm at one point.  It didn't sound "agitato".  It sounded, well, like I said, pedantic.  That section at the end was better, but in general it didn't really say anything to me. 
You are really good though - as a pianist, I mean. 
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