Just a quick question about this piece. There are no pedaling marks for this movement in the edition I have, but at the very end of the piece, I'm wondering if pedaling could be used in the very last bars, when everything shifts to bass. I just cannot seem to make the piece sound decent without the sustain pedal. I've even thought about using the una corda pedal to achieve the incredibly soft yet legato sound I've heard in all the recordings I've listened to.
Without the pedals that section just seems... choppy, but adding them in seems to enhance the effect of the booming left hand bass notes. It's such a beautiful and incredibly soft part and yet I can't seem to get it 100% because of the choppiness. I know pedaling is subjective but I've also heard Beethoven loathed his pieces being played differently than how he wrote them. The rest of the piece I'm fine with, it's just this one section that's puzzling me a little.
If no pedal should be used at all, then I will continue to work at softening the hands, especially the right hand chords.
Topic: Pedaling in Beethoven's Op. 49, No. 1 first movement?