Prelude in g minor

This is a vigorous composition with a wide dynamic range in march style except for the beautifully romantic and lyrical center section.

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There are performance suggestions included, and this edition is nicely spaced and very readable. Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23, No. Join Our Email List.

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Not as difficult as it looks, I have been working on it for weeks and have it almost memorized. Part of the reason it is so easy to learn is it is so fun to play! I took the time to figure out the correct fingerings before hand and practice the arpeggios by themselves, and that has made a huge difference.

Practice slowly too at first.

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There is no way you can accurately get the chords at full speed the first time! Was this review helpful? By Rrayitas visitor , 06 Feb at By lai lian visitor , 27 Nov at By itsme23 visitor , 26 Nov at Follow this composer Be informed by email for any addition or update of the sheet music and MP3 of this artist. Collections of free-scores-admin 5 Hungarian folk songs.

And his hands were famously gigantic — he could reach over an octave and a half on a piano with his hands with his left hand, he could play a C-Eb-G-C-G chord.

And he utilized the size of his hands in his piano writing, using large and complex chords and wide arpeggios , which creates this truly colossal sound in much of his piano music. Very structural, angular, heavy, and insistently rhythmic.

Prelude in G Minor Op. 23 No. 5

Also very structural and rhythmically defined. Listen for the alternating of high register and low register notes, using a large span of the piano. Small buildup going higher and higher in register, before it releases and resolves back downwards with a quick run of descending notes. Another round of the new melody, but in between the left hand arpeggios and the right hand melody, listen for the 3rd voice in the middle which hand is playing this?!

This trick developed during the Romantic era — writing in a such a way where it sounds like there are more than 2 hands playing. You are commenting using your WordPress.

Prelude in G minor (Rachmaninoff)

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