ABRSM 2023-24 Grade 1 Piano Exam A12 - Mozart arr Blackwell Allegro K487 No 8

[nojstradamus]

Good morning all, Continuing my journey to learn all the ABRSM Grade 1 pieces. I think this is the first Mozart piece so far. Listening to the recording, I don't think I followed the dynamic markings that well. I think this is also the first piece that has an explicit dominant 7th chord. Mozart has a way of following convention and making it easy to learn in it's theory, while making it interesting, but that's just my thought. Let me know what you think of the performance! All comments and insights are welcome! Thank you!

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Very concise! Just one thing - don't speed up / vary tempo at the end of the first section. Rubato doesn't fit in Mozart well.

[perfect_pitch]

Bar 2 and bar 6 - you're not quite holding the dotted crotchets for their full length and cutting them short by like a quarter of a beat. You don't have this problem in bar 10 as there is 2 crotchets in the LH keeping the steady beat going as you playing, helping you subdivide the bar.
You do however have the same problem in bar 25.

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I agree with perfect_pitch, just didn't notice that before. It's legato, so blur over notes a little bit if you have to - but that tenutoish staccato sound isn't going to cut it.

[nojstradamus]

Bar 2 and bar 6 - you're not quite holding the dotted crotchets for their full length and cutting them short by like a quarter of a beat. You don't have this problem in bar 10 as there is 2 crotchets in the LH keeping the steady beat going as you playing, helping you subdivide the bar.
You do however have the same problem in bar 25.

Good advice. I'll take it account going forward. Thank you!