>>61279327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZMwdB0J3c

>>61279360

what an ugly album cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEPtuyzcQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOKi5Uc33ns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZGWB93-mmI

Reposting because I was hoping for criticism and also relevant.

https://clyp.it/15rtkgio

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How should Chopin 27/2 be played?

On one hand, playing the left hand at a steady rhythm and keeping a moderately fast tempo will make a lot of the right hand parts sound really crammed.

On the other hand, the dreadful concept of accompaniment is wholly destructive to its sonority. Anchoring yourself in the right hand and treating the left as secondary, stretching and warping right hand parts because why not will ruin the entire thing. If you do that you will be forced to warp those 6 notes in the left hand as well and they really don't lend themselves to warping. The melody simply breaks and what most pianists have done to hide this is just playing the left hand as quietly as possible so nobody notices all the lurching. The thing is you have to bring out the left hand many times or else the right hand will sound too naked, tonal harmony-wise and sonority-wise. For example big cadences or that part where the right hand is just single notes sustaining for a long time. In the former case the left hand just comes crashing through, usually just for 6 notes, in a sudden crescendo; and in the latter it's usually forced to play a steadily, perhaps for the first and only time in the whole performance, because there's not much else to do, causing great rhythmic dissonance and destroying the unitary character of Chopin's music.

The end result being this catastrophe of naked minor thirds and mumbling mud. Even Rubinstein is guilty of this.

Listening to a robotic performance, though definitely not satisfactory in any regard, reveals its very agile and at times very strong character; and the surprising thing is it does nothing to reduce its tragic or profound nature. If anything, I'd say this lifts the veil of hysteria and reveals a purely grave quality, not unlike the crushing 27/1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8N109ACs_w

TL;DR: Who is the Glenn Gould of Chopin?

>>61281195
Pretty cool, can you post the sheet music?

>>61279327
Beethoven op. 109 - 3rd movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6OQpkOUijE

Alkan

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>>61281297
To be honest, this (handwritten on the back of some other music we were playing that day) was all I had on the stand when I performed it. (Retyped instead of scanned because my handwriting is frankly illegible.)

I never actually wrote the score out in full. I think I'll do that now.

>>61282035
bump while I write out the score

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fkky_mF1Z0

O P U S 2 7 N U M B E R 1

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who plays the best Scriabin Sonatas 4 & 5?

>>61283456
Richter has the best Scriabin 5. Gould is pretty interesting though