Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2007-03-13 22:08
On the whole a nice job, a few things do jump out at me as being areas to work on, both generally and for this work specifically.
Firstly...your open G, it stands out as being a duff note, and while that's understandable for those of us who play the instrument it's something that can be improved with some careful work. The addition of extra fingers and/or 'blowing through the note' to use an old cliche is most helpful, do a search on this perhaps, it yields some interesting results.
Secondly I'd like to hear some more variation between the different sections of the piece, each has it's own character, being based upon a different aria from the opera. The first after the introduction for example (Andate, piano dolcissimo) I feel can be darker, and 'sneakier' (doing the repeat gives you the opportunity to play with it further on the second time as well...) It just didn't sound different enough from the extrovert opening.
Lastly...and this may be an edition thing, but my favourite section was missing! It's definitely worth playing the 'dotted' section, yes, it's technically difficult and extremely tiring, but you seem to be able to get round everything else ok! The cut the pianist made was a little comic to me it seemed...
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