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Offline eylulesmebolucek

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Chopin is beautiful...
on: May 03, 2011, 05:45:12 PM

Offline liszt1022

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #1 on: May 03, 2011, 06:15:04 PM
Alternate thread titles were:
Grass is green...
Sun is bright...
Ice is cold...

Also, tell your daughter not to play this nocturne Agitato.

Offline landru

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #2 on: May 03, 2011, 10:09:51 PM
A long time ago I was in a bar with a couple of woman friends. One of them said (dreamily) "Our waiter has Chopin's eyes..."

The other said, "Well, he better give 'em back!"

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #3 on: May 03, 2011, 10:19:41 PM
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Also, tell your daughter not to play this nocturne Agitato.

I agree. I get stressed up by listening to this, rather than calm.

Offline eylulesmebolucek

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #4 on: May 04, 2011, 03:45:18 AM
Thank you for all your comments. By the way she is not my daughter, she is me. This is my own video. :)

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #5 on: May 04, 2011, 06:05:11 AM
Well of course, as far as I remember (I don't have the music at hand) Chopin put a quite fast metronome mark on this. It might be really understood as a sort of Nocturne-Waltz. So it's your interpretive decision. I would recommend though to play it much more subtle and soft. The left hand is too strong in my opinion.

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Re: Chopin is beautiful...
Reply #6 on: May 04, 2011, 08:51:43 AM
Seems impeccable to me.  Enjoyed listening to it.  I don't sense any more agitato in the playing than Chopin already put into the piece, by loading it down with technical demands as usual.  But it was rather mischievous of the pianist's couturier (or couturiere, as the case may be) to have designed for her a dress that looks like the shingling on the side of a house.
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