hey everyone! I'm a rather old/new member. I registered sometime ago but I've been busy with school. But I just had my concert and I played the famously hard third movement to the moonlight sonata and wanted to share it with you because from what I've seen in this community you all are very intelligent and I respect your opinions. So I would like lots of criticism. I apologize if I am breaking any rules for the Forum and I have no problem with this being deleted immediately.

Thanks!

Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMxMDEgqis


P.S: Is this good for 2 years?

Don't be silly. Of course it isn't.

Well it wasn't perfect - bet even Schnabel, Arrau, Brendel, Barenboim etc. weren't perfect, and you fluffed it at 6:00 minutes - but you don't need anyone to tell you that - and its nothing that more practice and improved powers of concentration won't fix. Any more criticism would be churlish. It is a tough piece, you have to keep up a relentless rhythm - and you did - you did not let any wrong notes distract you from keeping the performance going - that in itself is brilliant. You performed from memory, and only when you have given a solo recital can you have any idea of how stressful that is, and how much tougher a real performance is than practicing and rehearsing in isolation.

Good? For just 2 years it is phenomenal!

Congratulations

I've been learning for 9 1/2 years and I wouldn't have even considered learning that piece until very recently.

Well done!, and you had the courage to post your video on YT and invite comments. You're a 'cool dude', most people contributing to these forums and YT hide behind their anonymity. I like the hair style too.

Thank you for the feedback everyone. I was thinking about attempting the La Campanella, I learned the first 5 or 6 pages or so (lots of wrong notes I see now) and realized that it's not really as hard as the moonlight. Technically yes, but I think the moonlight requires a certain maturity of musical understanding to be able to play it even half correctly. But as I was playing the La Campanella I found it easier to play because I somehow saw the mathematical patterns in it... Kinda hard to explain. But I can't really see them in the moonlight if that makes any sense.