Beethoven Sonata No. 21 movement 1

[furiouzpianist]

[noambenhamou]

Hahahaha. Nobody noticed this?

This is very good and polished!!!!  besides a few areas, that seem like a struggle because Beethoven is just difficult in this metrenomic tempo way.

You need to record this on a better piano. I'm positive you can do more with it if you had the right equipment...

Bravo!!!

[awesom_o]

I didn't like the facial perspective.

There is something in your approach to this piece that I don't care for. You play it without much difficulty, and it was very 'accurate'.

For me, the sound is slightly too dry in many places. The beginning for instance, is not marked staccato. But so many people play the opening chords staccato!

I felt as though the rhythm was driving forward in too one-dimensional a way, without enough "feeling" or "intensity of thought" given to the harmony.

It sounds polished but not heartfelt or individual enough. A tad businesslike. Perhaps the tempo could be a hair slower, but you could find greater flexibility and elasticity in the tempo? I don't think it needs to be quite so muscular-sounding/metronomic.

Well played, and thank you for posting!

[pianoman53]

What I don't understand, is why this piece because such a pointless show-off piece? Not unlike, say, pastoral, it really starts from nothing. It's like the earth is created, and you hear it.
What you, and most people do, is 'Look how super fast and accurate I play it'. It's not even presto! I read somewhere (but I don't have the source, so you might disagree) that 'Allegro Con Brio' was generally the slowest of the marks, after Allegro moderato, and ma non troppo. I don't hear this tempo at all. For me, it sounds like 'Presto semplice', which is not even close to what he wrote. Everything also sound the same. How are the first note even close of being the same as those five notes in the high register.
Whatever happened to putting instruments to a piano score, and playing after that?

When did music become about fast and clear? Feelings seems to be very secondary...

[pianoman53]

Sorry, I forgot..!

In that sense you obviously play it well. It's just that I want more from a piece like this