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Topic: Chopin Ballade 2 (Read 2073 times)

cay123

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Chopin Ballade 2

on: December 24, 2017, 12:13:33 PM

Here is my performance of Chopin's Second Ballade.

Chopin Ballade 2.mp3 (7079.44 kB - downloaded 127 times.)

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clouseau

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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!

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