31.12.09

Ballade No. 1 Reprised

One year after my last post, and I'm finally getting on with the Ballade. I've pretty much memorized all the difficult parts, achieved some level of fluency at a slow tempo, and worked out kinks in the pedalling. All that in the past four days! Give me my vanity.

The pedalling for the last section's a bitch btw. But I've finally learnt that I really should obserev pedal marks; the music sounds a lot more exciting.

5.10.08

Ballade No.1

I plead guilty.

Goals for the next two months:

Chopin Ballade No. 1
Bach Partita No. 1
Beethoven Sonata No. 1