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I thought that was beautiful. My only comment would be that you're using too much pedal, in my opinion. Too many notes are getting swallowed up, as it were, in the reverberation. Other than that, though - well done! (A beautiful piece with a depressing title.)
If you don't already, you should check out the Canadian classical pianist, Angela Hewitt, on Twitter. Once a day, she posts a short video of her playing a short piece usually, but not always, by Bach. She usually includes a short comment with advice for performing it.
Again - well done!
Glenn Gould's recordings of Bach is that he used virtually no pedal at all,
@timfost
J.S. Bach wrote very little for the fortepiano itself and that instrument did not enjoy a sustain pedal then, at any rate. Gould and others play Bach without the sustain because Bach wouldn't have had it. Gould is legendary for his rendition of the Goldberg Variations, of course, and you may refer to these. These were not written for fortepiano but for harpsichord, so it's particularly appropriate, I think, to pedal lightly (if at all).
French impressionism is something else altogether. This pavane was an odd piece in so many ways, too slow for a dance, but Ravel wanted it fairly slow, though how slow has occasioned much disagreement: There's been lots of debate about the tempo.
I like how Tim plays it here, including his pedal work, which provides the right atmosphere for this musical style, I think.
Peace,
Alan
I believe that Ravel "recorded" a piano roll later in which he takes a similar tempo to the one that I took. However, since he wrote it so early, he might have originally played it slower.
(without the overwrought approach of a Sir Thomas Beecham!).
I like how Tim plays it here, including his pedal work, which provides the right atmosphere for this musical style, I think.
drowns out some of the inner voices, is all.
Richard, I thought that you once told me that you were doing whatever you could to drown out the incessant inner voices that you battle.
And Tim tries to help, and here's the thanks he gets!
Peace,
Alan