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Topic: Chopin Ballade 2  (Read 2002 times)

Offline 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.
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Offline 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!
"What the devil do you mean to sing to me, priest? You are out of tune." - Rameau
 

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