Piano Recital (Chopin/Godowsky, Bach, Liszt...)

[frankiisko]

Hi guys!! Here I post my whole performance in a charity show. Some of the pieces I play in this  video I posted them before, but there is a couple of them that I didn't have uploaded so I decided to upload the whole video.

The pieces are the next ones:

1. Bach - Prelude and Fugue #1 in C major
2. Bach - Prelude and Fugue #2 in C minor
3. Chopin/Godowsky - Study #1 (on Chopin's op. 10 #1)
4. Paganini/Liszt/Busoni - Étude #1
5. Benjamín Rico - La danza de los martillos

At the end ther is a little appearance of the composer of the last of the pieces. Enjoy!!

[liszt1022]

I can't decide which is bigger, the leaps in Godowsky or the leap from WTC to Godowsky.
In any case, Study no. 1 seems most terrifying to play in public! Very brave. Good performance too. So Busoni touched up some tremolos in Paganini 1, very interesting.

[frankiisko]

Godowsky's Study 1 is a total beast haha!! Yes, I don't know if is the most terrific to perform in public (some others, for exemple the versions of op. 10 #2 are also hair-aising!!) but certainly it's a hard piece to play and you have to have a big control of the resource that you use, in this case the arpeggios.

And yes, Busoni did  There is a very interesting version on YouTube of Busoni playing this Étude (it's a piano roll, although) and he plays a really interesting CODA with interlocking octaves (very alla Horowitz) and this Coda is the one I've tried to copy.

Thank you very much for your comment!! 

[liszt1022]

Are you looking at other Godowsky studies? I've "felt around" the book so I may be able to suggest some.

[frankiisko]

Yes, I'm also quite interested in them so sometimes I've listened to these pieces while seeing the scores, but I would be very interested in knowing your oppinion!!

And yes, I've played also the Revolutionary and in a near future I'd like to play more of them

[liszt1022]

Well, there's a tough balance to find in Godowsky's studies of how much I like it vs. how much trouble it'll be for me to learn, with a side of audience accessibility. The only one I've finished was 12a (the left-handed 10/5) but I'm thinking any of these might work for me, if I stop feeling lazy-

5 (LH 10/3) - Very nice sounding, but I'm still not completely sold on the remake of the climax.
7 (Swapped hands 10/5) - Doesn't look too bad! And would be good work to loosen up my LH.
12 (10/5 with RH inverted) - You could learn the RH of this at the same time as the LH of 7.
23 (LH 25/1) -Sounds nice even if you have to play it slow like me.
34 (25/5 mazurka) - Works really well as its own piece... or something
45a (LH MM no. 2) Pleasant and pairs well with my LH 10/5 and various other flat-key studies.

[swagmaster420x]

: O i think the easiest/most efficient way to improve your performance would be to clean up the muddled parts, because the lapses in clear tone/note accuracy + fluctuations in tempo stuck out to me. On the second Bach especially I would seriously consider slowing down in order to better punctuate the sound of each note; as is, the notes blur into each other unmusically when you accelerate the tempo. as far as performing multiple high velocity pieces goes, though, you were good!