Allegro De Concierto - Granados

[diegocaetano]

Hello guys,

I am sending this video for a competition, I would appreciate some comments about it.
Thank you so much!

LOTS OF MUSIC FOR EVERYBODY

[diegocaetano]

Thanks

[pianowolfi]

I think you're doing a great job and it's a good piece for a competition. I really don't have any specific critique at the moment I love the piece

[49410enrique]

i normally do not follow along with the score, except when it's a precomp upload. you are producing such lovely sounds throughout the piece, i am not super familiar with the work (ony superficial listens in the past and this is the first w score).

i don't know how far out from the comp you are, this feels and sounds like you're ready to put it on stage. i really enjoy the your contrasts between the ecstatic and eupohoric sections and the quiet lyrical.

only things i picked up were little nit picky detaisl here and there like perhaps when you have dim./ or softer dynamics and the melody notes have accents, you do a nice job with voicing but as you get softer i lost the 'bite' or attack on the front end of the sound (this is very common and hard to pull off since we essentially need soft overall , but 'louder on the front end' specifically maybe look and maybe play around with approx mm26-31 or so, that is the main place where as fast as it moves this detail stuck out at me as i did not think i heard what i expected based on what i saw on the page).

general, look at places where you have the fast consecutive octaves in either hand, you may be doing it already but see if you can 'flutter pedal' parts of it (more maybe) to see if you can keep the 'sustained sound' but let the dampers ever so  slightly brush the strigs enough to wipe it just a little so there's more disctinction of the individual notes (just generally make sure your sound doesn't lose it's crispness, almost like if you were 'finger picking' the nylon strings of a guitar, vs strumming).

hmm it's hard to say more when it's this good.
maybe look at seeing if you can get more ''martellato''  out of those LH/RH octaves  in the final run down then up again in the last 4 or so measures before the final chords.  i wonder if striking from a more perpedicular angle vs close to the 45 degrees or  it looks like your doing might product a big 'harsher' sound, it hear more of the 'strike', i didn't get the feeling it was 'percussive' which i think might be what the indication might be after (sorry if i'm completely wrong, but i almost want to hear this like when percussion chimes ring out at the climactic end to an ensemble work, don't know if you're familar with these but you strike these with a mallet/chime hammer and the sound is pretty distinct, almost bell like maybe imagine these things taking that section and imagine and try to shoot for this sound?



that last run up the keybarod 2 measures from the end, see if you can descresc just a little bit more before you start so the cresc to FF is more distinct (also those lower notes on longer strings tend to just sound louder beucase of the physics of the whole thing so it's hard to really cresc into those tiny top strings so being mindful of this might help it some)


hope at least some little part of this makes sense to you (again you know this work better than I prob ever will) but i really tried actively listen and engage as more than general audience when watching your wonderful performance.

congratulations. good luck, and please post again with how your competiton went/goes

[diegocaetano]

Thank you so much for your insight! I agree with you, i will try to experiment more with the idea you just suggested.


Thank you so so much....the competition is a little bit far...i still have time....it is the RE of Belgium