Chopin prelude 28-16 B-flat minor

I'm working on this and should have a really nice recording ready for the site in a couple months.

What you find below is a 2002 recording of a scholarship audition on the University's Kawai RX-3 Piano.

I got the scholarship.

Pete

 

Prelude

I'd give you the scholarship too. Great job!

 

Well played. Though you did not attack the piano like Arthur Rubenstein or Richter (but that's mostly for pleasing the crowd, nothing to do with musicality)

 

Good job with this extremely difficult piece :wink:

 

Thanks. I practiced it so much, the neighbors can play it. :lol:

I'm trying to bring it back to that ridiculous tempo, so I can make a cleaner recording. I'm at about 144 at the moment, aiming for a final tempo of just a shade over 180.
I'll do one of two things, achieve success or go crazy trying. :wink:

PF

 

very impressed with your prelude. You must be working 4 hours a day to acheive that result-180.

anyone else, i think Pete deserves more praise than being ignored.

 

Stop, you're embarrassing me!

Thanks for the kind words.
I don't know whether I can do it again at that speed or not, it's nerve-wracking! I might just settle on 168 or so, that's fast enough. Maybe I'll be able to control the dynamics more at a slower tempo. In the closing of the recording, the tempo approached 200, which was (I think) just a fluke, I can't play it that fast, so I'm not sure exactly what I did. I was so nervous, I don't remember playing it.

Anyway, blah, blah, blah it's full of wrong notes, but that's ok.

'Nuff outa me!

Glad you liked it, rinis!

Pete