Rachmaninoff etude in g minor op. 33

[zeusje]

Hi there, posted this a while ago already, but it was still a work in progress. This is one of the pieces I started with with my new teacher a few months ago.

I hope you like it.

[cjp_piano]

Good job, everything is there. The timing is a bit wobbly, like around 1:13 when the rhythm changes to longer note values, keep the subdivided sixteenths pulsing continuously. Around 2:00 when it gets really thick and crazy, you could take a little more time to let all those figures build up to the climax. I wanted it to be heavier and darker instead of so fast at that point, but that's just my taste.

Really well done!

[zeusje]

Tx alot cjp_piano, your comment was very nice. About the part at 2:00, i have struggled quite a while how I wanted stuff there. The piece is in my memory from a cd I heard from Nikolaj Lugansky about 15 years ago, in my mind that part was a pure explosion. Recently I relistened Nikolaj Lugansky's recording, and it was way different than I remembered, still the explosion was in my mind, though I must confess that I slighlty adapted that part after having relistened Lugansky's recording. It feels like when you revisit a large bulding, that you last saw as a child, it seemed way bigger in your memory. The Rachmaninov etudes I heard 15 years ago from Lugansky was one of the first cd's I started listening to 15 years ago, when I really got into classical, which is a happy memory