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Tchaikovsky - Mazurque pour Danser, Opus 72 No 6

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  1. StuKautsch

    StuKautsch Member Piano Society Artist

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    I'm sorry I did not put this up before. With many changes of plans in the past year, I forgot that I had learned this last year in anticipation of recording it. When I discovered this, I noticed that the piano is still in tune so I brushed it up for this recording.
    Petroff 5'10" lid up, Zoom H-2 recorder.

    BTW: Because of the title, I was unsure of tempi, so I patterned them after the Mazurka from Swan Lake as performed by the Bolshoi.


    Tchaikovsky - Op. 72, No. 6 "Mazurque pour Danser"
     
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    I've never heard this one before. It's pretty interesting. Especially the middle section.
    I think you played it well, and I've put it up on the site. You know, you've almost completed the set. Chris will have to make you a pretty table soon....
     
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    StuKautsch Member Piano Society Artist

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    Thanks Monica.
    #10 is murder with a capital 'M', so he can relax. I'm going to make it a 'hobby' piece while I learn the other ones (as well as finish a Strauss cycle that has one piece left). I know it's cowardly to leave the hardest piece for last, but ....
     
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    A nice clean performance of this Mazurka. Well played indeed.

    For criticism, I think the dynamics could be more defined, especially the crescendos and the many accents which you do not seem to observe.
    In the ff pesante section you do not keep the bass chords down as written, so that it's not really pesante.

    Yes no.10 is extremely and relentlessly demanding. You don't get a break anywhere and the many page turns are totally impossible. It would certainly keep me from completing this set - as well as the coda of the Polacca which seems to out-Liszt even Liszt. No.18 I find also very hard. You don't have to feel bad about leaving the difficult stuff for last :)
     
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    New to me but I liked it a lot (more than I usually like T's piano music), a nice bouncy tune where I had no trouble envisioning the dancers. Well done!

    Joachim
     
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    Chris and Joachim, thanks.

    Chris - the pesante was a good catch. I have, over the years, lost the habit of occasionally looking at the score away from the piano, and this is what happens. (Particularly in the LH.) My teacher is turning in her grave.
    Well, with the rest of this set I'll have no choice but to study them in a variety of ways.
     
    StuKautsch, Jun 22, 2015
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