What do you guys think about this performance?

It's me playing rondo from Beethoven's pathetique sonata.

YouTube - Me playing rondo from Beethoven's pathetique

YouTube - Beethoven Pathetique Sonata - 2007 Competition Awards - PJ

Take note: Focus on the music not on how cool you can look while playing.

what the *** are you talking about.

i didnt listen to the whole thing, because i have overheard so many interpretations. you certainly play it faster than some recordings ive heard. but i guess it is a rondo, and last movement..so why not ay haha.

Originally Posted by goodridge_winners

you certainly play it faster than some recordings ive heard. but i guess it is a rondo, and last movement..so why not ay haha.

Just because it is a rondo doesn't mean that it has to be played fast.
In this case it is allegro, but that has nothing to do with it being a rondo. A rondo is just a form, like sonata form.

Although I do agree with it being finale sort of ending movement, so that way it could be fast, but I stress again that the piece's speed has nothing to do with it being a rondo.

Originally Posted by DOFTS

YouTube - Beethoven Pathetique Sonata - 2007 Competition Awards - PJ

Take note: Focus on the music not on how cool you can look while playing.

Maybe this a perfect radio performance, but I think it helps both performer and spectator to see emotion carried into other aspects of the music with this sort of piece. It's inhuman not to move slightly with the music, and recordings, paintings and treatises suggest that it's been common practice to do so for several hundred years.

Originally Posted by Zetetic

Maybe this a perfect radio performance, but I think it helps both performer and spectator to see emotion carried into other aspects of the music with this sort of piece. It's inhuman not to move slightly with the music, and recordings, paintings and treatises suggest that it's been common practice to do so for several hundred years.

I agree, but there is a difference between moving with the music and moving for show. It is rather apparent he was moving mostly for show. Never ever seen a pianist move so widely for such a piece unless they wanted a dramatic image to go with their playing

Originally Posted by DOFTS

I agree, but there is a difference between moving with the music and moving for show. It is rather apparent he was moving mostly for show. Never ever seen a pianist move so widely for such a piece unless they wanted a dramatic image to go with their playing

Anyone remember this thread?

Convulsing while playing isn't expression

I see nothing wrong with the movement of the performer in the video. Some of it is, granted, maybe a tiny bit "large" and could in the end be more detrimental to a good performance than anything else. Some of the rocking back and forth movement may lead to some insecure weight control on the keyboard.

I see nothing wrong with the tempo. Not too fast for my taste.

One thing I WOULD worry about, however, is those raised shoulders. THAT will be detrimental to good technique. The pianist needs someone poking a finger hard on each side of the neck to help lower the tension and lower the shoulders.

I have the same problem, tension in the shoulders . Practicing playing relaxed should help....it's what I do (though not enough ).