Doubling Octaves in Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor (Ocean)

[darkpisces]

Wanted to put up a discussion on doubling the octaves periodically for this etude. Mosty notibly in Georges Cziffra interpretation. For example at the start of each bar on the final chorus he would double the bass note: The first note on the left hand which is C with the lowest C on the piano, making the piece more difficult and also giving it an explosion effect.

For anyone that can play this piece or is just generally interested in this topic, what do you think about this? If you can, leave your recordings of trying this out, I will post mine too.

[josh93248]

Cziffra did what he wanted, which is what I like. I just listened to him play the Ocean and it's a very good bit of music and the purists can go to hell haha.

[darkpisces]

Cziffra did what he wanted, which is what I like. I just listened to him play the Ocean and it's a very good bit of music and the purists can go to hell haha.

His is possibly of the stormiest interpretations out there. Have you tried this piece?

[josh93248]

I've tried it very briefly but decided I would save it for later.

[darkpisces]

A few mess ups, I just recorded this but here is me playing this part with the double bass notes. Let me know what you think

[chopinlover01]

The main interesting thing is that your keyboard is an entire half step high.

[darkpisces]

The main interesting thing is that your keyboard is an entire half step high.

I had it transposed higher by one semitone actually because I was improvising a little before and I like doing that sometimes and I forgot to change it back, well actually I just didn't mean leaving it on