What the heck did he do?

[mjames]

I look up to this man's performance and I want to know how he did the thingy at 3:30.

=210  *link for the specific part*


At first i thought he was just really emphasizing the gsharp and dsharp but i tried that but the same effect doesn't come out... ;_; Might it be because our pianos are different in tone?

pls help

P.S. it's not that im trying to copy sofrotnisky I just umm..look up to his playing...


P.S.S there are other parts too, the guy manages to bring out middle voices that no one else can (horowitz, rubinstein, argerich etc)...just what the heck is he doing differently? Im trying to find out how to get all those middle voices "out" but I just can't..its so freaking infuriating...

[mjames]

...Fine it's ok, i'll figure it out myself...

[piulento]

It's just a matter of interpretation, practice and nuances. He thinks you make the inner voices just as important as the top voice, so he inserts all sorts of nuances in order to make it so. In this case, he just devides the two notes and puts more emphasis on the bottom one (because if you want the bottom note to stick out you need to play it "harder", because the ear always tends to hear the higher note more clearly). But he adds these nuances in different parts of the piece too.
Sofronitsky believes that mazurkas should be played with quite a bit of liberty (I.E - the player can change the piece a bit to match his own understanding of its "essence"). Some players do it with the mazurkas (including myself), but some think you should stay more faithful to the original score, so they play it more or less as written (which is why most pianists play it without strong nuances).

[mjames]

wow thank you so much

I didnt realize pieces could be played like this...

edit: I'm so glad I discovered sofrotnisky at such an early stage, he has completely changed the way I approach music making...