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Hello
Here is my interpretation of Chopin's nocturne - I would appreciate your advice on how to improve it.
Thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTTmVM7PZ8

Overall, a good job. You managed to get the more difficult parts under your fingers. I think a lot of what could be done better are just things that will improve with time. For example, especially in the first half of the piece, there was often a slight pause before you sounded the first chords (the second eighth note of each three note group of eighth notes)--I often have the same problem when playing new pieces, sort of "searching" for the chord...you find it, but there's the slightest of pauses, which distorts the rhythm. That is just a familiarity thing. Keep practicing and that will go away.

The only other thing I would recommend would to add a bit more nuance to your touch in phrasing--you want the melody to swell and relax, to tense and release, to feel as if it is growing, impassioned, at moments. You have to make it feel as if you're communicating something important to someone you love, sometimes at a whisper, sometimes with fervid excitement. You've got the notes down, so just focus on tidying up your rhythms a little, and once you have that, you can really focus on making the piano sing.

Thank you, lautreamont I appreciate your remarks and feedback, I will pay attention to what you have told me !

Hi Miruna!

First of all, I'm glad for you to see that you play on a REAL piano now

And I like your Chopin! Since you ask for some advice, let me tell you two minor things:

1.) In the accompaniment, the first beat often gets a bit lost or even sounds staccato, since your hand leaves too early (or the pedal comes too late). Just don't hurry, always keep the key until your foot is back The beautiful melody always needs a solid foundation and doesn't like to be "alone"

2.) Twice in the piece there is a passage where you obviously want to prepare the following "stanza" very carefully. The first of them is at 1:22.Just be careful not to change the tempo that abruptely, these chords shouldn't be "strangers", but sound like a smooth introduction which slows down gradually.

Okay, this was some criticism now.... I hope you can feel that there is a benevolent spirit behind it? As in your former contributions, I liked very much listening to you!

Best regards from Switzerland, the little neighbour country

Felix

I'm grateful for your advice, Felix I am fully aware I don't do justice to this beautiful piece of music, I just hope to improve myself when possible.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for your appreciation, greetings to you too, je vous souhaite une très belle soirée

Miruna :

I agree with Tony007 about the bass accompaniment. That was the first thing that struck me about your performance. While the score does have a staccato mark on the first bass note of each group of 3, there is also a pedal marking indicating that the bass note must be caught by the pedal before releasing it.

The underlying harmony must always be fixed by the bass note. That bass note often provides, when judiciously executed, a secondary line to the melody line. For example, beats three and four of measure one and beat one of measure two should clearly outline the descending line : E-flat, D, C. Similarly in measure 3, beats one, two and three, B-flat, B, C, help the resolution of the harmony to the C minor chord on beat three.

Ceci dit, félicitations pour un bon début; vous êtes sur la bonne piste.

Bien à vous,

You are right, I jump too fast from the first note to the second and the first one remains too short, too stacatto - I will work on that !
Merci pour vos remarques