What Makes a Good Piano Performance - Practice?

What are the magic components up in pianists' sleeves - which tends to make their performances wonderful? What is so diverse with their piano practice? If you have listened & watched Vladimir Horowitz awesome performances on Scarlatti sonatas from YouTube - I guess every person will be pondering:

"Hey, this piece is so challenging due to the fact it is so challenging to play such a basic piece! Yet Horowitz did that!!"

and...

"I do play this sonata. However my playing sucks, Horowitz is piano GOD! How can he possibly play so effectively?"

So this boils down to the uncomplicated query:

"_______ (insert pianist name right here) & I know how to perform this piece - with no incorrect notes. However I know if I continue to play this very same piece for 50 years, I will nevertheless be receiving no exactly where close to this guy! What are our variations??"

Right here is the answer! I am not a expert pianist, however I would say I am fairly a humble however decent one. I imply, I myself can observe what the distinction are, in between my and most other individuals's performances. So, study on...!

one) Understanding the music

- Interpretation is much more essential than finding the notes suitable following you have discovered the piano music. - To perform effectively, you should understand the music - how's did this piece came into the composer's thoughts? For instance, for playing the Raindrop Prelude, what did George Sand has to say about it once she heard Chopin performing it? What is Chopin attempting to express in his brief prelude "Suffocation" (Op. 28 No. four)? Schumann's Traumerie - what is this piece of music all about?

2) Pondering about the music - This is exactly where interpretation comes in, as soon as you understand a piece of piano music. - This is the component exactly where you Believe & Envision how this piece Ought to sound. Yes, bar by bar, note by note - some occasions my mind of a piece of music can go down to that detail.

three) Executing your interpretation - This is the really hard aspect, in reality, this is the hardest portion. Some instances I have troubles with this. - Immediately after you have an thought on HOW the piano piece ought to sound, now it is time to perform it so that it sounds like what you have imagined.

- How is that accomplished? You can not just Consider about raindrops out of the window and count on to play the Raindrop prelude properly. You can't just Consider about war after playing the 'Heroique' Polonaise and anticipate to play it properly. What is in your thoughts does NOT reflect in your performance!

- We ought to Assume, Consider and Assume about HOW to perform that piece according to your right version in your thoughts - make adjustment to your playing, pedaling, articulation, phrasing and so forth.

four) Unique interpretations - Horowitz after mentioned that he plays his pieces DIFFERENTLY each time - that is correct artistry. - Yes, I do perform a piece of music differently At times. For instance, Schumann's Traumerei expresses lovely or heart breaking memories. Often, I play to express some very fond memories, Occasionally I play to express - yes, some sad memories. So, each performances sound very differently.

- In addition to, over the years, your understanding of the music will alter - so does your interpretation.

5) UNCONVENTIONAL interpretations

"UN-conventional??? Are you certain???"

- Yes, of course I am positive. Unconventional or unorthodox does not imply that you will have to play Fur Elise in the spirit of the Revolutionary Etude. It is not that.

- By becoming unconventional (Occasionally only), I will use quite distinctive interpretations & unique mind throughout playing positive pieces. An instance, if you play Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 - what do you Believe about the final section beginning from bars 30? What was Chopin attempting to communicate in his chromatic octaves? What about the "senza tempo" section?

- Most folks will interpret the chromatic section as a pleased passage, and as soon as it reaches the "senza tempo" section, it will all of a sudden modify to a sudden serene, as if getting into trance prior to finishing.

- My mind on these sections? Completely distinctive (I will not talk about it right here). Yet after I discovered this years ago, I thought precisely as what most men and women thought!

- The concept is, the additional you perform a piece of piano music, the additional you must Believe about it - every person is playing piano, these diverse thinkings will support you make a distinction.

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