Is it just me, or are the Minute Waltz and the Appassionata 3rd movement played at an inhuman speed that they don't need to be played at? I even checked with the metronome based on the tempo markings and the Minute Waltz was at a speed that would clock around 2:30 while everyone plays it at a speed that would make it 1:30. (It's Vivace not Molto Prestissimo Possible!) Also the Appassionata 3rd, which literally says "Allegro MA NON TROPPO" and many pianists play it like it's Prestissimo (again). Thoughts?
Imo the intro to Chopin’s Ballade no 1, Le Gibet and the 1st movement of moonlight sonata are often played too quicklyAnd Scarbo is usually played just fine but it is also usually played very sloppily.
Imo the intro to Le Gibet is often played too quickly.
Huh. Going by the sheet music, I feel like it's just about right. Tbh, having played Le Gibet, it wasn't really very hard. It was actually one of the first few pieces I managed, and I played the entire thing to a point that I was happy with in about a month, during which my finger was recovering a hilarious failure on Double Thirds.
Currently learning it myselfThis part is the hardest imo(using it very loosely)The large chords can be quite uncomfortable to play, as well as the jump in the left handAlthough I wouldn’t call it hard, just saying it’s the hardest
The only hard part of the piece is making it sound right, which is not as hard as it's made out to be. The people who flop Le Gibet, to my knowledge, are people like Lang Lang purposefully playing the piece fast (usually so they can get through the "easy" part and on to Scarbo), which results in it just sounding bad. Then some people who are watching say "Well this very good pianist can't play this really easy piece, so it must actually be absurdly difficult." I do agree that players who focus on speed play way to fast, but that's kind of the point for them. They don't care about placing the listener in a deserted swamp with a hanged man while torturing them with the occasional tolling of the bell, they care about speeding through that part so the audience 1: doesn't lose interest, and 2: sees how fast they can play a piece that has much easier to understand difficulties.
Topic: Pieces played too fast 