Chopin Ballade 4

[nosaj123]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to play the 4th ballade for a recital and a competition in the near future, and I want to get your opinion on a suggestion my teacher made.  In the Ocean etude passage before the coda, my teacher said that he heard a few people (one of them was probably Horowitz) accent the third note of each run (the a-natural, b-flat, and the b-natural) so that the f doesn't dominate all the time.  I think that this is a really neat idea, but I don't know if I should play it that way.  Any thoughts?

[quantum]

Can you build a convincing interpretation around it?

[billyfisher100]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to play the 4th ballade for a recital and a competition in the near future, and I want to get your opinion on a suggestion my teacher made.  In the Ocean etude passage before the coda, my teacher said that he heard a few people (one of them was probably Horowitz) accent the third note of each run (the a-natural, b-flat, and the b-natural) so that the f doesn't dominate all the time.  I think that this is a really neat idea, but I don't know if I should play it that way.  Any thoughts?

In my opinion, Chopin's greatest work, and, hence, care should be taken in meticulously forming an interpretation.

I don't see a problem with the F dominating all the time in all honesty - if you don't like that as part of your interpretation, then, by all means, accent the third notes on the runs. However, don't feel that it's compulsory!