Chopin - Nocturne No. 20 in c-sharp minor KK IVa Nr. 16 (SLOWER Tempo)

[@Inblue-mar]

Thank you.

[@mpgfly]

sei bravissimo!

[@jamiewalsh3237]

Absolutely stunning tone. Beautifully played 👏👏

[@seancregomusic]

Thank you so much! It's such a risk to play this piece at a slower tempo.

[@Chazidmusique]

Bravo!

[@Zebobynh0]

❤

[@joseguillermobarrerahuaman4753]

excelente

[@swetoniuszkorda5737]

🤩

[@eliezrolerdo1632]

B E A U T I F U L

[@bytemixsound]

Curious but with the fibromyalgia, is there pain in the hand/wrist/arm joints that limit or interfere with wrist mobility or rotation or is it more an issue with the fingers or elbow joints? I noticed with the trills you're using a lot of finger motion, but not much wrist rotation. If it's not an issue, maybe incorporating some rotation would help to smooth out the trills. Of course, you've had far more training and experience than I have, but I'm wondering if using rotations would be a tool to help mitigate some of the pain issue in the arms or hands. My teacher teaches Goldanski/Taubman technique for hand positions/movements, so the thumb is very tip down, wrist well up over keys, and rather than bending the wrist or turning it left or right or "reaching", it's more about the rotation. Kind of like Martha Argerich's "praying mantis" look. As we say, "Stretching (or reaching) is a bad word. Don't do it." I don't always use the method quite that extremely, (also probably things ingrained from my childhood lessons and a couple applied lessons in University, and years of bad habits playing keys) so I kind of hybridize it somewhat, or keep the ideas as another tool in the toolbox. Sometimes my wrist is very up high over the key tops for certain things, sometimes it's down lower, almost Horowitzian in nature. But with trills and tremolo, I do try to use a little bit of wrist rotation more than relying strictly on the finger joints. (of course, it depends on the piece, the feeling, and what I'm trying to achieve, as always).. At least that's how I've been learning in my lessons, and the Woodcarving Partita I'm finishing polishing up has quite a bit of trilling in the last bit of the piece (also the long trill near the end of Mozart's D Minor Fantasy).

[@seancregomusic]

Since this video, I have learned A LOT more about my health condition. It goes well beyond fibro. I have a genetic heart condition that I have had my whole life, and it's affected me in different ways throughout the years, ending up in open heart surgery just a few months ago to keep me alive! At the time of this video, yes, my *mobility* was limited in certain ways, so it wasn't pain per se in this video, but rather actual physical mobility limitations. (Fibro has 150 symptoms, and I have 149 of them. I can't have all 150 since I don't have a uterus, ha! Pain, for me, is there, but it isn't one of the "main" symptoms for me.) Everything changes every few months like a moving target, and it severely affects what I am able to play in the moment. Some days, I can play things with huge chords and big leaps yet can't play intricate finger patterns like Bach. Other days I can play Bach just fine, but I can't jump more than a 5th no matter what. Some days, I can't play trills, but I can do other crazy things. Other days, I can only play for 5 minutes, then it's a hard stop. So, I have to constantly change-up what I can play. For decades, I thought it was a technique thing, and it was so confusing how I felt like my technique was constantly changing and I couldn't get a hold of it, yet my students were very successful. But, now that I know what is *actually* going on, I feel A LOT of relief, and now I only try to learn/record music that I am able to in the moment. So, knowing what I know now, I would have waited to record this piece until I could smooth out my trills as by body would allow me to play them correctly, for example. Thanks for the comment, and I am so glad that you noticed!!

[@jamiewalsh3237]

Blüthner??

[@seancregomusic]

1998 PETROF IV that has been dialed in perfectly!

[@dl57758]

It is still a little too fast

[@seancregomusic]

@@dl57758 tee-hee! 😆

[@lydiavliese8246]

That piano should be tuned!

[@seancregomusic]

@@lydiavliese8246 it had just been tuned, but the c# unison slipped a little. And being the key of the piece is c#, well, it was rather unfortunate. I usually tweak the unisons before recording, but the microphone picks up tuning issues and exaggerates them even though you can’t hear them in person. 😖

[@lydiavliese8246]

@@seancregomusic Oh,I see.

[@chtcheung5794]

Well performed deep wailing piano music, guess slower pace is just perfect to audiences like myself

[@seancregomusic]

Not to mention it makes the difficulty level 10x higher to control the lines when they are that slow. 😬

[@advannederpelt9217]

it’s really to slow in tempo!

[@seancregomusic]

@@advannederpelt9217 I would never preform it this slowly, but it was in response to a trend at the time of people playing it waaay too fast and using it in so many social media videos. That being said, I’m still able to carry the line, which makes it ultra-challenging.