Beethoven 'Tempest' Sonata mvt 1

[chrisr4ever]

im also gonna play this piece but im just starting.... btw ur much better!

[ripmadsen]

You're so fun to watch!

[thegrimreaper999]

she doesn't cross over her left handed cause she is left handed obviously

[pianaoki]

I'm not...!! It was just the way I was taught it, but then in a masterclass I got told it was probably easier the other way round.

[thegrimreaper999]

u play it really well, but at 2:56 u are missing about 2 notes which u should cross ur right hand to play. check that on the sheet music. but overall its really good

[pianaoki]

Thank u :) I played this almost a year ago now. Need to revise it.

[MakeViolntRevolution]

yeah i must agree and say that you did that great. The song is a Tempest; a storm; complete with its respective torrents and lulls. Allthough I wouldn't compare it to a romance I deffinately think it was written with room for interpretation and therefore, some tempo varity. You made it subtly which is good. not to much but just enough. You had it driving where it needed to. Well done!

[pianomom123]

The tempo and phrasing are terrific! I don't know what Lourak is talking about!

[smithsherman]

Part 3.If I could have them,in addition I would ask

for you to develop more of a sense of accelerando,

both large and small.Given your proclivity for shap-

ing space they would be devastating.Lastly,I would

ask you to experiment with playing the hands

against each other..."one being on a different

part of the beat than the other".Thanks

[smithsherman]

Part 2...I thought that you very clearly changed

your melody with respect to the beat,"sometimes

before,sometimes after,sometimes on", exceedingly

well.Your conception of the expressive power of the

differing interacting motifs seems more vivid than

most...certainly you expressed it more vividly.

Also you really moulded the space between the

notes expressively.Part 2

[PianoPlaya123]

I seriously disagree with the other comments, I like your choice of tempo in most parts of this piece. Your playing was very even and these other people don't realize that the tempo is supposed to change a lot in this piece, it's marked in the music that way. The tempo is not sagging, I play it also and believe it leans more towards romantic, good job on this!

[smithsherman]

I certainly wholeheartedly agree with Lourak,that U should be extremely precise.But,DO NOT PRACTICE WITH

A METRONOME EVER AGAIN!...Ur conception of Time,Occ-

upation,& Space is alreadly Light years beyond a

"metronomic" conception.Any Metronomic reference

now would only damage U severely.U will only

increase Ur precision by growing Ur ears &

looking deeper into Ur intuition!

[PianoPlaya123]

Why did you put it as a response to my comment?

[smithsherman]

In case it isn't clear,U R already precise in a way

that a metronome couldn't ever follow or suggest.

It's precisely Ur precision that pleases me.

Ur doing it the way Bach,Mozart,& Beethoven did

it...by intuitively judging time proportion

experientially...and then weighting it accordingly,

by listening to the same multi-dimensional source that suggested the pieces to the composers in the 1st place,instead of a 1 dimensional score or metronome.

[requiemaeternam7]

yea i agree on the tempo saggin but otherwise great job im glad u didnt pussy out like most people in switchin hands on the tremolos good job keep the tempo movin though and good luck

[lourak]

I like your seriousness of approach to this sonata - however, you must not let the tempo sag or else it loses developmental tension. Remember - the movement is already quite varied with contrasting tempi - anything less than metronomic precision in longer sections is disastrous! Practice slowly with a metronome and it will get there. Listen to Glenn Gould's performance on Youtube - of course it is much too slow, but you can get an idea as to an acceptable range of tempi.

[smithsherman]

I very respectfully disagree with my colleague Lourak.

I found the dileneations that you made between

the motifs to be fabulous.Your psychological power

of projection in the "lunar" motif by floating out

to the edge of the sound-bloom thrilled me.I

never knew when the inevitable Götterdammerung

was coming.Thank God!...no Thank You! Part 1