Bach: Prelude in Bb major (First audition room)

[pianoman53]

I working on the fugue as well, but it's not yet worthy of posting yet.

Many here will probably think it's too slow and too much pedal. But I've gone insane on those Richter-like recordings, where the left hand is the only think that matters. Maybe I took it a step too far (the left hand disappears on one place) but it's only a work in progress.

Any comments would be great!

Oh yeah, I use Roland's edirol R-09. It is supposed to be a very good one, but I can't make it work right. So any advice there would also be amazing!

Thanks

[scottmcc]

Well I think it's a great first post in the audition room of a very challenging little bit of Bach.  There are a few hesitations and overall more pedal than I would prefer, but overall I think you are off to a great start.  Keep posting!

[pianoman53]

Thank you!

This is a work in progress, and I've only played it for a week, so there are a bunch of things that will change and become more clear.

But it feels great to get a comment about it

[richard black]

That speed sounds perfectly appropriate to me. Tidy it up just a little and it'll be a nice version of the piece.

I can't say your R-09 (R-09HR, presumably) sounds as if it is letting you down. You seem to have got the settings right on it (for piano you should probably have the mic sensitivity set to H and recording level to about 28, low cut off, limiter off). The best thing you can do with any recording device is to keep it clear of flat surfaces, so mounting the recorder on a tripod may help but the results you've got there seem decent for a recording made in a domestic environment.

[pianoman53]

Thanks for listening! I've cleaned it up, and changed a few things, but it's basically the same idea.

And thanks a lot for the settings! it's not perfect, but it's way better!

[lelle]

Hello there and welcome to the Audition Room pianoman53!

It's indeed well played with just some polish required, really. I think the biggest issue about using pedal in baroque music is that since it wasn't written with pedal in mind, it's very easily blurred. So one must be very careful when using it, but I don't think it's inapproperiate! I like your use of rubato, it doesn't feel out of place. And, if you listen to Richters recording (again?) I think you'll find that his left hand is at about the same level as his right (try youtube)

A nice idea for the prelude, and I hope you'll enjoy your stay here at our forums!

[pianoman53]

Yeah, I agree. Though, my recording equip doesn't really help me on that part, about the blurryness.
About richter, it's not really that his right hand is too soft, but rather too unimportant and just played through like if it was Hanon.