Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau in E-flat minor, op. 39, no. 5

[ntnkj]

A live recording, unfortunately there were problems with the equipment, making the sound far less than perfect. I also had to tune down the recording, because the computer they used sped up the recording and increased the pitch... It seems to be a thing with writing to an almost full hard drive with certain recording programs, the hard drive changes speed when it nears total fullness, and that interferes with the rate of writing to disk etc. VERY strange.

Anyway, I hope you like it. I will be grateful for all feedback, be it praise or criticism!

[josh93248]

Your playing seems to be at a good standard, this certainly seems like a challenging piece.

I don't play or listen to much Rach, I like him sure but I just don't. I think you get his style though.

It did feel a bit rough at times though, as if you haven't 100% mastered it. That said it was a fine listening experience. You play with a fair amount of passion too.

[ntnkj]

Well, it could have taken a week or two more ( I would have if I could have hehe), but especially in a live performance, stuff happens 
the recording is lacking, as well. I tried to salvage it as much as I could, but it's far from good.

[josh93248]

Hey, that's okay. I'm actually getting interested in your playing in general, if you noticed a few of my comments I thought your Prokofiev was pretty good and so was a bit of your Bach...

It's almost a shame you get so little attention on here... You're clearly a pianist with a solid training and ability but perhaps it's just a matter of finding good ways to build up and engage with your audience. A big part of what I look for isn't just good playing but engagement, if a pianist is willing to talk to me about their approach, background, performance choices etc. it makes me a lot more interested. If you don't want to post to every last visitor to you can just add some general descriptions in more detail. One thing I do is have a section about the composition and a  section about my own particular performance/interpretational decisions in the description of my video.

Anyway, thanks for replying

[ntnkj]

Once again, adding embedded video, sorry if my manic posting annoys you!

[ntnkj]

Wrong link!!!

[schumaniac]

Overall, I think this is good! (lmao, I sound like a piano teacher)
I think the change of harmony/color at around 0:38 is very special (it doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to feel it), and should probably be brought out more clearly as such.
Also, it seems like some technical difficulties got in the way with the overall structure of the piece (though I couldn't have done much better myself, and have almost the exact same problems in my playing). For example, your phrases, more often that not, start with a "hesitation" in timing. A lot of ritenutos also coincide with big jumps in the LH- this is most apparent in some of the sequences (somewhere in the middle of the piece ). At times, these "hesitations" precede new figures in the music, and make it seem to appear out of context.

Tl;dr it's good; just be extra-sensitive to color changes + work on technique/less "hesitating" to make phrasing more direct and intense

[ntnkj]

Thank you for your feedback, I mostly agree with your observations. As it usually happens, the preparation time for the concert was insufficient, and most of the technical imperfection stem from that fact. Nevertheless, I find your articulated and detailed comment very helpful!