Enrique Granados - Spanish dance nº5 ( Andaluza )

[abbyes]

Hey,

I've been reading this piece for a couple of days already; so I decided to record it in a practice session and upload it so you can tell me any what do you think of it

I'm open to any tips to improve it. The record was cut because I did not record it on my phone but on a friend's one, and then he sent me it in whatsapp and had to cut it, and then he couldn't send me the other half; but anyway, the other part is just a repetition of the first theme, so it's practically entire here

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Sorry for bad quality

[kalospiano]

enjoyed it, thanks for sharing 

[dogperson]

Great job for a couple of days--  thanks for posting.  A couple of suggestions
- Not sure if it is recording,  but the melody is tending to be obscured by the accompanying LH or the other voices in the RH.  If it is not the recording, practice with the left hand and other voices much softer.  Sing the melody to yourself and then ask if it is being heard when you play it.
= If there are chords in the RH with the melody, lean into the note with the melody a little more so that it is prominent.
- Consider a little more dynamic contrast

You might find this performance useful to listen to:

[abbyes]

Yo !

Thanks you guys for replying me !

enjoyed it, thanks for sharing  

Glad you liked it ! I'll upload a full version once I can play it well !

Great job for a couple of days--  thanks for posting.  A couple of suggestions
- Not sure if it is recording,  but the melody is tending to be obscured by the accompanying LH or the other voices in the RH.  If it is not the recording, practice with the left hand and other voices much softer.  Sing the melody to yourself and then ask if it is being heard when you play it.
= If there are chords in the RH with the melody, lean into the note with the melody a little more so that it is prominent.
- Consider a little more dynamic contrast

You might find this performance useful to listen to:

Thanks !

- Nope, it's not the recording. It's true that the melody it's masked ( obscured ) by the left hand. I'm working on it by trying to mark the notes which lead the melody.

= Yeah, same as the point one, I need to mark the melody all throughout the piece, quite hard though specially on chords, but I'm working on it !

- Yeah...but you see, my teacher told me to play it strictly as the sheets say, so I dont have that "freedom". I dont agree at all with her, but nothing much I can do as long as im a student. But yeah, I'd like to play it more freely.

I've already listened to that perfomance ! It's among my favourites !! and I can see those dynamic contrasts you said in this interpretation, it's beautiful. To be honest, i'd like to take as reference this interpretation, or Granado's one :

But I was told by my teacher that "the greatest" are allowed to play it freely and without following the sheets, but for me, as long as im student I shouldn't do it.

Anyway I'm working on those points you've remarked. I'll post soon the full interpretation with a better playing ! I'll try my best


PS : Definitely my LH it's to loud....


Best regards.