Chopin Etude op.25 no.12

[hakki]

I recorded this with the Zoom Q3hd. It has X-Y stereo mics, so if you don't like the sound try switching left and right headphones.

Comments, criticism are welcome.
 

[awesom_o]

Nice job, hakki!
I enjoyed this performance, and found it to be overall more impressive than your op. 25/6. There is a spacious quality to the phrasing here which I found a bit lacking in the other Etude. I like your choice of tempo and the quality of your sonority.

This study is extremely challenging in terms of accuracy and stamina, particularly the middle section. I find that hands separate practice, and hands together work SENZA PEDAL help significantly to raise standards throughout.

Bravo.

[pianist202]

try to clean up your tone, this will make your performance come off as more refined. Also, the notes of the arpeggios are not completely together. That is NOT GOOD. You do have a good amount of resonance, and you bring out the melody, although sometimes you can be a little harsh.
Finally, I personally play the melody notes with a very loose wrist so that they really sing and play the rest of the arpeggios pianissimo.

[rachmforever]

You should try connect melody notes more between them. Too, they should sound more with highest notes in arpeggio than others. I mean that other notes in arpeggio should be only like padding and melody notes and higher in arpeggio should sound more. For my taste there was little sustain you can try add little more but maybe it sound like that only for me. It's just about making better dynamic now. Anyway great job 

[hakki]

Thank you awesome, p202, rachm for listening and the feedback.

awesom:

Your comments are always right on spot and very helpful. You are right about the stamina and frankly it is not very easy for a man at my age.

p202, rachm:

I respectfully disagree about the sonority of the arpeggios. The score has only f, ff and at the end fff marks, with dim. and cres. in places. Yes, the first and third beats are accented, but  the arpeggios in between should be played with full tone.

Also, another bad habit (which I tend to do) is to extend the value of the first notes in order to emphasize. There are even pianists who almost play them as 8th notes instead of a 16th, which distorts the rhythm. Yes, that way it requires less to no stamina, but that is not the way it should be played.