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Topic: Best accelerando in a pianorecording?  (Read 1456 times)

Offline sevencircles

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Best accelerando in a pianorecording?
on: October 10, 2011, 08:01:58 AM
What is the best (and most surprising) accelerando you have heard in a pianorecording?

Some pieces become a lot more interesting if you add some accelerandos here and there.

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Re: Best accelerando in a pianorecording?
Reply #1 on: October 17, 2011, 09:25:29 PM
Probably Bach F&F no 2 in the prelude section where i get faster in the presto section.
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Offline bluthner

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Re: Best accelerando in a pianorecording?
Reply #2 on: October 18, 2011, 08:30:25 AM
Or prelude # 10 in E minor. Busoni says you shouldn't accelerate at all towards the presto, which should be like a sudden 'spring' or something ( I am quoting from memory), but I don't think I have heard any modern recording without any accelerando. My favourite here is Richter:

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Re: Best accelerando in a pianorecording?
Reply #3 on: October 18, 2011, 10:25:41 AM
Probably Bach F&F no 2 in the prelude section where i get faster in the presto section.

Any recordings online? on youtube for instance  ;)
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