Beethoven Project

[schartmanovich]

Hey everyone,

I'd like to share a little project I'm working on with all of you. If you have ideas on how to make it more interesting (I have some myself that I have yet to implement), I'd love to have your feedback.

Take care!

https://www.drewsical.com/beethoven_project/

[pianodad]

Very ambitious.

At first, I was tempted to yank your chain about how much spare time you must have at Yale. But since you breathe Beethoven in your academic work, I'm guessing that your work on these sonatas is not simply a pastime!

[steinwayb]

I think it is an excellent project. I am looking forward to learning from your observations.

[the89thkey]

I don't want to be rude, but it seems that your renditions of the pieces are a little slow, and you are overpedaling and playing without expression. Why not listen to some of the masters to see how they do it? Richard Goode and Claude Frank have recordings of the whole set you can buy.
In No. 25, USE LESS PEDAL! the touch has to be light and "bounce" the right hand octaves. Are you learning these with a teacher?

[birba]

I don't think he's looking for criticism on his playing.  This is a very personal project which he is doing for himself.  I think he's asking more for advice on how to organize and present it.  It IS very ambitious, but it shows that even a non-professional pianist can "attack" all of Beethoven's works.  In the best way he knows how.

[the89thkey]

Well then my advice is to learn a few sonatas well rather than try to take on all at once and learn them badly. It will be hard to correct them when you actually have to perform them later.