Chopin: Scherzo Nr. 1, h-Moll (b-minor), op. 20 (1st part)

I play on this only audio-file I made some month ago the Scherzo in b-minor of Chopin amd I put some pictures of Chopin and me sitting at the piano to it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Scherzo
• h-Moll
• b-minor
• Chopin
• Klavier
• classical
• romantic
• romantisch
• op.
• 20

[polskimurzyn]

great job, really really nice playing

[musicusblau]

Thank you very much, I´m glad you like it!

[Rufftyroff]

0:26 So that's what Chopin really looks like. Wow.

[musicusblau]

Thanks for the kind comment!

[LeonidasBasileus]

hey, hope you don't take this as an insult or take offense from it, but let me tell you some stuff about this performance.

I think you should use more bite in the scherzo theme - its supposed to be radical, wild, viscious.  I would lessen the pedal, make it more crisp for most of the time. For the first "calm" section after the scherzo theme, try not to slow down the tempo too drastically, it feels sort of like the theme dissapears, as if it falls asleep.

to be conctinued...

[musicusblau]

Thank you for your comment. These are matters of interpretation and it´s normal, that tastes are different. Principally I like it like it is. Yes, a bit less pedal at the begining and causing more "crisp" could be also a nice thing.

[T1carus]

just note, this piece was written by Chopin while he was outraged with the crushing of the polish uprising of 1830. he filled a page of his personal diary with profanity and wrote this.

[musicusblau]

Thank you, your comment motivates me.

[SarrasaniPianoCircus]

I like the (relatively to average versions) calm exposition of the initial theme, as the lyric general tone. Very coherent (not the only possible, but effective) your trend to

give cohesion to the expressive world evoked by this music: serene , with small but focused contrasts. Very good also the sound.

Congratulations.