Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!

Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more

Topic: Chopin Ballade 2  (Read 1962 times)

Offline cay123

  • PS Silver Member
  • Newbie
  • ***
  • Posts: 4
Chopin Ballade 2
on: December 24, 2017, 12:13:33 PM
Here is my performance of Chopin's Second Ballade.
Sign up for a Piano Street membership to download this piano score.
Sign up for FREE! >>

Offline clouseau

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 145
Re: Chopin Ballade 2
Reply #1 on: January 07, 2018, 12:43:48 AM
You understand the character of the piece and have a good sense of form.

Improving on those two things would make the interpretation perfect for my taste:

In the passage starting at 2:13 (and whenever that occurs again) you are phrasing very nice the left hand, don't change anything there. The right hand, while secondary, I believe still needs to be heard better, not necessarily louder but clearer.

In 2:50 the melody sounded to me somewhat rigid-metronomical, I would try some more rubato there.

This is of course just the way I would like to here it, maybe you consciously decided to interpret it that way, in which case just ignore everything I wrote.

In any case, good job!
"What the devil do you mean to sing to me, priest? You are out of tune." - Rameau
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert