You're getting snippy because pianisten1989 told you to lighten up on the rubato???
This is an etude. Its a study first and formost. Everything else is secondary to the study that this piece is attempting to teach you
If your play in anyway is in conflict with the etudes primary purpose then what your doing is not right
It is so tempting with Chopin to try to and add more than the etude is asking.
one plays this piece any way one can, or simply leave it unplayed
I'm soon 31 and I have a job that I love, so for me I made the decision long time ago not to pursue a professional musical career, I'm keeping piano playing and composing/improvising as advanced hobbies and I'm perfectly fine and happy with that.
So trust me I am well aware of what the score says and how Pollini's rendering is supposedly the only correct way to tackle this etude.
No room for expressive rubato in this etude?? Boris Berezovsky's recording will tell you otherwise. So will Mei Ting Sun's fantastic Chopin Competition 2010 performance, who IMO has the best current day etude no.1 that I know of.
If everyone banged those bass-octaves, played perfect 196tempo throughout with Chopin's accents, what would separate one performer from the next??
I thoroughly enjoyed this very daring, refreshingly spontaneous, improvisational recording of op. 10 no. 1. As per the study of the study, with Chopin as with Liszt and others to follow there is a primary emphasis on the music to be made...music that is constructed out of a technical (or in others a compositional) problem, but still music as the end setting them apart from mindless exercises. So you must not sacrifice the technical aspect (such as adding thumbs wherever possible in op. 10 no. 2), but none of this is at the expense of the musical result with all its possibilities. You have just shown an example of one such very individual possibilities, and I will say I did enjoy it very much. I am very sorry we live in such rigid times concerning personal musicality. This was not so in Chopin's day, and we can hear the remnants of this golden age in many an old recording. Now all orchestras and pianists must sound alike, as if cut by a cookie cutter. Digital recordings may be the culprit...I don't know, but certain comments will reflect these biases. I'd charge you to keep being yourself, and upload some more of your playing.
I keep making some sort of enemies here on pianostreet. I better stop =/ Well, at least I didn't write something upsetting in my last post!
In any case, this etude is so difficult and demanding, that the naked truth of it is, that one plays it any way one can.