Moszkowski - Étude #1 op 72 (Live)

[frankiisko]

Hi to everyone! Today, I want to show you a little more of Moszkowski, Haha!

Yes, this recording is of the first of the twelve Études "Per Aspera" from Moszkowski. Here you have a little more of Moszkowski. This one is the second of the Études from Moszkowski. I played first one and second one in a concert. I lost the recording of the second one, so I had to record it at home:

Here you have the second Étude from Moszkowski:

I hope you like it!  

[mousekowski]

Bravo Frankiisko! I really enjoyed your performance of the E major study Op72 No1. It was fantastically fluent and confidently played.

I'm studying this piece too - I'm not as comfortable with the notes as you are yet though. How do you practice it? Do you do lots of slow practice?

I think you could make much more of the dynamics - for example the lusingando section on page 2 could be whispered quietly to make a stronger contrast with page one. There's also a pp passage just before the main subject returns on page 4.

Well played.

[frankiisko]

Thank you very much for your comment and your advices! For your nickname I can guess you like Moszkowski, don't you? LOL!

This was my way of practising it:

First, I played it as perfect as I could (as a concert playing) and after one playing I began to study the piece. I played it very slow (around 60 bpm) left hand alone, very slow right hand alone and later both hands togethers. Later, I played it faster (around 80bpm) in the same procedure [left hand , right hand and both hands] And that was the way I learnt it

As to the dynamics, I really was surprised when I began to play that piano. It sounds really low when you are playing it, but when you are listening to it it sounds totally different, so I was a little confused, what misled me a little bit 

Thanks! 

[furtwaengler]

These are very enjoyable performances, Frankiisko. I don't remember that I've heard you play before this. I definitely have to look up some more if you've shared it. I never investigate Moszkowski outside what I would hear in Horowitz's recordings growing up, or...I think I accompanied someone in a piano concerto he wrote some years ago, but I have no memory of the piece. The etudes you present have a nice "concert pianist" flair to them...I like how the first is written with the hands coming together in the end...it's good suspense in writing. I can tell if you keep pursuing as you are you are going to be a great pianist. Both these etudes are on the very edge of brilliance, and I think all they need is time to mature (I don't mean practice...I mean as you get older, these are going to get better. It is a cool thing!).

All the best to you and your future with the piano,

Dave