★★★★★ VERY NICE - Elize, what a delightful video to find - and you “nailed” the trills. I enjoy watching classical pieces played by folks in their homes because it shows dedication, commitment and appreciation for beautiful music - even on a spinet. What’s more you hear the personal interpretations of pieces that come from the heart - refreshing. Good for you for continuing without missing a beat when you hit a misplaced note or two. ★ If I may make some suggestions that coming from a fresh ear could be helpful as you continue to make the 2nd movement of the Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto your own. (1.) re: Playing on your home piano - many churches have "in tune" baby grand pianos that fall silent during most evenings of the week. Ask the minister/priest if you could play their piano so you can record a new video. What’s more, you can’t beat the acoustics of a church. If you don’t own a tripod ask to borrow a small table - stack some hymnals atop it so the video camera is the height you’d like. (2.) TEMPO: Play this movement somewhat slower than you are in the video (being in B Major it makes it much easier to play). The entire movement is “Adagio un poco mosso” means “very, ‘very’ slow” but moving “forward with confidence.” What’s nice is the movement is precisely the same tempo throughout. Play it like you would normally breath - but with a breeze on your face - calm, consistent, relaxed and refreshing. (3.) LEFT HAND (curse of a spinet): Pull back on the bass e.g. nail it on the spinet it’ll sound perfect on a grand. If you note the entire movement is basically in the upper register - the left hand part just comes along for the ride. The bass is there but it’s unassuming - much like being a chair the treble clef notes “relax” upon. (4.) MEASURE 33 - the five measures of trill: “Really pull back” on the left hand - it’s there to whisper in the ear of the trills and be mindful of the crescendo. Glenn Gould actually played the trills a tad slower because he thought in doing so it brought out the contrasts of the half-steps. (5.) PEDAL (curse of a spinet): In some ways not using the pedal - or at least not as much - works in this movement because much is staccato and there are a lot of Tenuto marks above notes that should be held at full value so the pedal is more of an option really. (6.) YOU’LL LOVE THIS: On Amazon.com you can get the - Music Minus One Piano: Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 (2 CD set) - that has the full orchestra playing but without the piano. I suspect you’d enjoy this a lot. It costs around $35 but worth every penny - really - and it comes with a bound copy of the complete piano part and orchestra score sheet music, too! You just start the CD and play along with the orchestra - just you and the strings. Here’s the Amazon link: ★ www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596150904/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER (7.) WHAT I DO - at times: To grasp the tempo of a work I’ll listen to a piece over and over. You’d be surprised how much this helps (the Music Minus One helps here, too). ★ Here are some links to rather good performances of the 2nd movement of Concerto 5 on TH-cam - I made it so you can copy paste the HTML links to view: (a) Type in: “Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor” II. Adagio un poco mosso (Capova)” This is excellent because it's the "totally" correct tempo - and - shows the music text as the audio plays ★ th-cam.com/video/XhvypMdcAFw/w-d-xo.html (b) Type in: “Helene GRIMAUD plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5-2st.mov” She brings quite a beauty to it in this recent recording - note the tempo ★ th-cam.com/video/FcTs9s89quM/w-d-xo.html (c) My favorite from Moscow 1962 - Van Cliburn with Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. It’s old video - but wonderful nonetheless. Study Cliburn’s firm but gentile attack of the keys. Also, note the tempo with the orchestra right from the start - Type in: “(Cliburn)Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 Mvt II” - again, note the tempo and how relaxed it’s played ★ th-cam.com/video/vr2AKxf8m14/w-d-xo.html&spfreload=10 I hope you don’t mind my comments. It was just so nice to see your TH-cam video. I think it’s an inspiration for all who want to play this piece. For me I like hearing constructive and helpful comment from folks - (smile) - though I did give you a "thumbs' up." Cheers, - William PS: Did you write the arrangement for the orchestra part at the beginning or is it from a published music text for piano?
★★★★★ VERY NICE - Elize, what a delightful video to find - and you “nailed” the trills. I enjoy watching classical pieces played by folks in their homes because it shows dedication, commitment and appreciation for beautiful music - even on a spinet. What’s more you hear the personal interpretations of pieces that come from the heart - refreshing. Good for you for continuing without missing a beat when you hit a misplaced note or two.
★ If I may make some suggestions that coming from a fresh ear could be helpful as you continue to make the 2nd movement of the Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto your own.
(1.) re: Playing on your home piano - many churches have "in tune" baby grand pianos that fall silent during most evenings of the week. Ask the minister/priest if you could play their piano so you can record a new video. What’s more, you can’t beat the acoustics of a church. If you don’t own a tripod ask to borrow a small table - stack some hymnals atop it so the video camera is the height you’d like.
(2.) TEMPO: Play this movement somewhat slower than you are in the video (being in B Major it makes it much easier to play). The entire movement is “Adagio un poco mosso” means “very, ‘very’ slow” but moving “forward with confidence.” What’s nice is the movement is precisely the same tempo throughout. Play it like you would normally breath - but with a breeze on your face - calm, consistent, relaxed and refreshing.
(3.) LEFT HAND (curse of a spinet): Pull back on the bass e.g. nail it on the spinet it’ll sound perfect on a grand. If you note the entire movement is basically in the upper register - the left hand part just comes along for the ride. The bass is there but it’s unassuming - much like being a chair the treble clef notes “relax” upon.
(4.) MEASURE 33 - the five measures of trill: “Really pull back” on the left hand - it’s there to whisper in the ear of the trills and be mindful of the crescendo. Glenn Gould actually played the trills a tad slower because he thought in doing so it brought out the contrasts of the half-steps.
(5.) PEDAL (curse of a spinet): In some ways not using the pedal - or at least not as much - works in this movement because much is staccato and there are a lot of Tenuto marks above notes that should be held at full value so the pedal is more of an option really.
(6.) YOU’LL LOVE THIS: On Amazon.com you can get the - Music Minus One Piano: Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73 (2 CD set) - that has the full orchestra playing but without the piano. I suspect you’d enjoy this a lot. It costs around $35 but worth every penny - really - and it comes with a bound copy of the complete piano part and orchestra score sheet music, too! You just start the CD and play along with the orchestra - just you and the strings. Here’s the Amazon link:
★ www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596150904/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
(7.) WHAT I DO - at times: To grasp the tempo of a work I’ll listen to a piece over and over. You’d be surprised how much this helps (the Music Minus One helps here, too).
★ Here are some links to rather good performances of the 2nd movement of Concerto 5 on TH-cam - I made it so you can copy paste the HTML links to view:
(a) Type in: “Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor” II. Adagio un poco mosso (Capova)” This is excellent because it's the "totally" correct tempo - and - shows the music text as the audio plays
★ th-cam.com/video/XhvypMdcAFw/w-d-xo.html
(b) Type in: “Helene GRIMAUD plays Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5-2st.mov” She brings quite a beauty to it in this recent recording - note the tempo
★ th-cam.com/video/FcTs9s89quM/w-d-xo.html
(c) My favorite from Moscow 1962 - Van Cliburn with Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. It’s old video - but wonderful nonetheless. Study Cliburn’s firm but gentile attack of the keys. Also, note the tempo with the orchestra right from the start - Type in: “(Cliburn)Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 Mvt II” - again, note the tempo and how relaxed it’s played
★ th-cam.com/video/vr2AKxf8m14/w-d-xo.html&spfreload=10
I hope you don’t mind my comments. It was just so nice to see your TH-cam video. I think it’s an inspiration for all who want to play this piece. For me I like hearing constructive and helpful comment from folks - (smile) - though I did give you a "thumbs' up."
Cheers,
- William
PS: Did you write the arrangement for the orchestra part at the beginning or is it from a published music text for piano?
One last one: Stumbled on this spinet version using the same score you're using.
th-cam.com/video/9Rq1B9O7zIE/w-d-xo.html