Friday, 1 February 2008

The lesson on the 27th was fine. I have a recording of Kathryn Stott playing the Debussy. Arthur gave me Richter's live performance to compare. It is wonderful.

Of the Chopin, I need to tackle the next two bars of the coda - the bit with all the thirds.

I decided on two more Scarlatti sonatas. The first is K98 in E minor - allegrissimo. The other is the F minor K 466 - andante moderato. I have Horowitz playing the first and Pletnev the second. It's good to study the score with the CD recordings away from the piano and then leave the CD's whilst learning the notes and then come back to them later.

The four Rachmaninov preludes now make a nice set to play over twenty to thirty minutes or so.

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