This one replaces the you tube previously posted that was no longer available: Vladimir Ashkenazy: This gets FIVE STARS! ***** Just the same, I will comment on each performance and what I liked or disliked about it. Notwithstanding this aforementioned admonition, I sought out the following videos to make life even more confusing for myself. (I had referred to the CD enclosed in the Palmer edition of Chopin, An Introduction to His Music in my discussion) Here’s where I was motivated to check some You Tube performances for guidance, though in a previous blog I had stridently opposed the idea of students listening to recordings of a work during their initial baby-step learning process. Was I going to embrace a slower or faster pace, taking rubato into consideration. Should it be more lighthearted with a short ending, or might it be more appropriate to drag the rhythm in a legato fashion across the measure? Executing the figure in these two distinctly different ways would affect the mood and overall interpretation. As I looked at the dotted-eighth/sixteenth figure that permeated the composition making it stand out as unique among Chopin’s Waltzes, I suddenly experienced a wave of uncertainty about how I wanted to play it. Last night I sat down at my Steinway M grand and quickly shuffled over to my Haddorff (known as “Haddy”) fully intending to record some comments on the lovely C# minor Waltz.
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