Piano Recital 08/11/2025

Описание: This was a small piano recital at the Ludlow Piano Festival. I chose pieces outside of my comfort zone and started practising two months before the recital (all pieces were memorised and played without the music). I have written up comments on the performance below for my own benefit if I play these pieces again:

Debussy: Les Collines D'Anacapri
0:05 Uneven notes
0:30 Incorrect & rushed passage. Also needed to start the trill at the final speed instead of speeding up
0:40 Hesitation into the next section
1:00 Hesitation into the next section (again...) Also needed to be quieter
1:20 Smudges in the right-hand, between two black notes.
2:42 Missed the lowest note
3:05 Incorrect pedal and smudges on the run up

Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
5:20 Need to bring out the inner voice
7:00 The chords were perhaps too sudden
7:10 Too much rubato
7:30 Smudges on the chords
8:40 Make sure that the arpeggio is even
9:40 Chords too sudden

Piaf La Vie En Rose
10:20 Inaccurate melody
10:40 Smudges
10:49 Inconsistent run up
11:40 Inaccurate arpeggios and should have held down the melody note.
11:36 Needed to wait a little before the last arpeggiated chord

Botsford Black And White Rag
13:34 Missed melody note the 7th chord and smudges throughout...
14:00 Started rushing
14:30 Hesitation
14:58 Inaccurate scale
15:05 Missed melody note the 7th chord
15:15 Smudges!

Owen Distractions
15:50 Unconfident thirds
16:10 Smudges in the right-hand melody
16:30 More work needed on the repeated notes
16:46 Rushed into the silence
17:00 Smudges!
17:10 Rushed...
17:26 Rushed!!! Need to slow down
17:50 Last note was too soon