While it’s one of Rachmaninoff’s most approachable piano pieces, it still requires a really sensitive ear to put across a polished performance. I played this piece in high school and have always loved it. There’s another ornamentation hurdle at the bottom of the page, and then Chopin decides to lay off for the rest of the piece.Įxhibit B. It only takes a couple tries to get it right, but in the moment my brain gets easily flustered by the amount of content it suddenly has to process. “Is there a line between an appropriate level of Chopinesque rubato and a legit slowdown to get all the notes?”Īnd then on the second page, you run into this monster: “Oh, wow, yep, this really is the left hand part for 99% of the piece.”
Better focus and make sure I hit every chord.” And every harmonic change is super important. “Wow, this left hand part has huge leaps. You hear a couple bars of the melody and think: “Ah, yes, that famous Chopin nocturne.” But when you’re actually sitting at the piano and playing it, some new thoughts start to creep in: Jane Magrath’s entry on this piece actually says “This is a selection that is often assigned before a student is fully prepared for its difficulties.” I think the biggest misconception about this piece’s difficulty comes from its familiarity.
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