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Hello all. I am new here. I am a 19 intemediate player and I don't have much talent. I completed the famous kv 545 Mozart sonate long time ago. Anyway, now I would like to start on kv310. I know this is many levels above me, like jumping from the easiest to the hardest pieces by Mozart. However, this sonata in A minor has been my most favorite piece because it's very emotional (espeacially the 2nd movt). I tried it and this is what came out. It might not sound very well.
Please experienced pianist make comments on me. I will appreciate every comments. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43TFbAQez8g

Hi! I listened to the opening portion. You're doing some very good things. The first thing that struck me was how steady your tempo is -- I was really marveling at it -- and then I realized that you have a metronome going.

But still: It's possible to have a metronome going and still not have a steady tempo -- because we're not necessarily following the metronome. You're following it, and it doesn't seem at all like it's any kind of strain to be doing so -- you have a good sense of the 'pulse' and it seems very natural for you to be staying in good time.

Also your rhythms are very good. A common thing with a piece like this is to 'cheat' on the short notes (in the dotted rhythms) -- to strike them a little too soon, to leave more time to get to the next note. Actually you sometimes do 'cheat' on those short notes, but mostly you're playing the rhythms very well

And of course you know the music and you play very accurately.

The main thing to work on is having better variation of loudness and softness, both between each section and the others, and within every phrase. All the notes are sort of equally loud; there isn't much of what we would call "phrasing." To try to get that, maybe think of how you would sing every phrase, and try to get some of that impression into your playing -- I guarantee you that you would sing it with more "phrasing" than you're playing it! But you're doing real well already.

I wonder if Marc_C listened to the same video that I did. The noise of the keys striking the keybed was louder than any of the music I could hear. The left hand too frequently overpowers the right but some of that may be action noise because the bass is closer to the camera.

Regards,

I thought that was just some extraneous noise and ignored it. Actually I didn't even notice it -- that's how much I ignored it!

It's probably the same phenomenon that makes me barely hear the surface noise on vinyl recordings of 100 years ago. Almost everyone complains about it, and probably most people feel it makes those records not being worth listening to. I barely notice it; it just isn't part of the music.

I would like to borrow your filters for the next time someone rustles a candy wrapper during a concert.

Those Yamaha digitals are famous for their key clunking. The vibrations can really carry in all directions.

Can you record directly to the computer, for example with a program like Sibelius or Finale? This would avoid the noise because the sound would go directly to your computer. Or you could try a good recorder. Did you use your iPhone?

Or how about playing on an acoustic piano

My digital piano (Kawai CA-63) allows me to plug a USB flash drive into it. I can record myself (MP3 or WAV file) and copy the recording into the USB device. The sound is nice and clean. See if you can do something like this.

The sound would be improved immensely just by turning the keyboard up and putting the recorder on something else, like a bookshelf or table in the room.

It won't be a studio level recording but it will be perfectly fine to get feedback on your playing.