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This peace is by far not finished for me, but I couldn't wait to record it.

Feel free to give any critism!

Beethoven Sonata Op. 13 No. 8 (1st mvt.).mp3

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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO REPLY #5 TO LISTEN TO A NEWER RECORDING (I like more)!
#8 contains the last movements.

Thank you!

I only have one criticism: Neither link worked. :p

Sorry, this should work now:

Beethoven Sonata Op. 13 No. 8 (1st mvt.).mp3

EDIT:
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO REPLY #5 TO LISTEN TO A NEWER RECORDING (I like more)!
#8 contains the last movements.

Very Good:
On the beginning chord releases after each phrase: I usually release the pedal at or slightly after i release the note itself. The chord just seemed to lag there when there was supposed to be silence.
My only other comment: I would love to hear much more contrast in this piece. I just favor Beethoven more to romantic, where others push his music back to classical. THere could be more cresc. on those building sections
Some minor technical errors, but overall, very good, just become more comfortable with the piece and put some more contrast and you should be set. Good luck in the future with this piece.

Daniel, good effort, but you're ignoring too many rules.

First phrase, you must give more importance to the long chords. A professional pianist would never accentuate a short chord leading to a long one in this case!

In the introduction as a whole your tempo is fluctuating way too much. Of course there are places of dramatic importance and sybolism but u must set the cones in a clear straight line before you can start moving around them.

The fast tempo passages are too slow. However they're also very heavey with the left hand. So there's no chance you'll be able to go at the good tempo with such a heavey left hand. Besides it's musically incorrect. Practice the left hand pianissimo and profoundly, dont compensate for deepness with volume! theres a great difference!


Anyways enough comments for one post


Inbi

Yesterday I played the first movement in a small recital. It didn't go well, because I am always not used to play on those big grands with each its own hight and benches and so on. Of course I could have changed a lot, but in that moment I didn't know what - and that is why my hands where not in the right position to play during the whole piece. And of course I was VERY nervous ( I don't know why), although there were almost only children sitting in the audience - and of course their proud parents. Perhaps about 40 people.
I think, I hit wrong harmonies for ~ 8 to 12 times, that must have been heard by everyone, but gladly I was always able to continue without getting of the rhythm. The whole expostion was completely 'damaged' by this (Because of little time, I was supposed not to repeat the exposition part).

Tomorrow I will probably finish the 3rd mvt.

Before leaving this sonata I wanted to have a at least one ~nice recording of myself playing it.

This is the second recording now. I did it today.
My teacher told me a lot of things before the recital started yesterday, but as always I didn't remeber all of them. Same in this recording. For example the beginning of the allegro parts should be with pedalling, but I forgot it, probably, because sitting in front of my piano it sounds ok without pedalling too much, either.
I tried to solve some of the rhythmic mistakes in the grave part, you might have heard in the first recording of this thread.

2nd recording (from today, 13rd May)

Please comment on this new one!

Many thanks!
Daniel

To me, there was very little difference in the way you played the different melodic themes. In parts that I would interpret as more "angry", you still played with the same soft, back-end of the beat touch that is completely correct for the softer, lighter passages. Now, this can very easily be summed up as differing interpretive opinions, but if you find that what I say I heard is not what you intended in your playing, then perhaps you should think of other ways to play the passages to extract the interpretive experience you desire the audience to receive.

Although my microphone (the poor headset) doesn't 'get' even big differences very well, you're right, I played the dynamic differences in no way sufficiently. This is because my hands and fingers get tired and would get out of the rhythm, if I tried. Practising the whole first movement with the appropriate posture(?) would probably help. But I don't believe, I have found it out. And it is probably different with every piano, isn't it?

I appreciate your comment, Derulux!

Here are movement 2 and 3.

As always, both recordings inlude parts of 'weak' hands and wrong/missing keys.

The voice in the middle was not supposed to become that noisy. I dind't hear it while recording. Again, I used the microphone of my computer headset.

2nd Movement

3rd Movement

Thank you for listening!