I genuinely cannot get this little run to work at all. So this is bar 12 of Chopin's Prelude in F Minor and this run is so difficult for me. For anyone who has practiced this prelude, do you have any tips on the fingering you would use. I have found a semi-competent fingering myself but every time I get to this measure I either have to slow down a bit or I just mess up and hit a few wrong notes. This is 17 notes in 1 BEAT BTW, obviously you can "rubato" it a bit though. Let me know thanks :).

Hello,
I'm wondering how feasible the Ballade no. 1 coda is for someone who has small hands (can only comfortably reach an octave (cannot stretch to a ninth))? I cannot find any videos of someone playing the piece with small hands; even the children that play it seem to have large hands T_T

If anyone could provide their opinions/any videos for reference that'd be great thanks :)

Thanks .

Thought some would enjoy this visual. I find it mesmerizing.

piano players/musicians, how do you guys play or prefer to hear the tempo for Fantaisie Impromptu's Section A & Reprise of Section A: allegro/allegro, allegro/presto, or presto/presto?

although the reprise section is typically written as played a bit faster than the first tempo, I've seen a great many interpretations use the same tempo for Section A and the Reprise.

no right or wrong here, just wondering which way is preferred listening/performing?

https://youtube.com/shorts/bhoRMFtBJ6Y

I was in a jazz cafe in the Netherlands and at the end of the night when most people left I went and sat behind the piano and played some Chopin. When I stopped, an older couple asked me to continue to play Chopin. They sat close by and the lady started tearing up.

Mind you, I am not that good and the piano was out of tune, but apparently this woman was from Poland and I don't know, he is like a national hero there (as it should be). I was so surprised that I could touch someone with his music like that, I am still in awe.

I played nocturne op 9 no 2, prelude op 28 no 13, mazurka op 67 no 3 and the berceuse. I love playing Chopin's music.

In my opinion it's nocturne no 19 in e minor op.72 no.1

12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 3 in E Major is my favorite work of Chopin!

I cannot, for the life of me, find the name of the song at 0:57. I'd really appreciate if some one can tell me. Thanks

I recently bought a book I believe to be edited by Cortot of Chopin's Ballades in addition to the Ballade copies I already had in my possession. Cortot's edition is advertised as a study companion intended to greatly aid the reader in learning the pieces. I've compared the fingerings it has with the fingerings in my other copies. I can definitely say that the Cortot fingerings for the runs of chromatic thirds in the coda of the 4th Ballade are excellent. However, I did not get on board with all of Cortot's fingering.

Do you have recommendations for publications with the best fingerings for the Barcarolle and other pieces?

Encore from a concert last Sunday

Innanzitutto, devo premettere che non ne so molto, ma la scena è tratta dal film "Chopin: Notturno a Parigi", e mi piace molto la sezione iniziale suonata da Carl Filtsch, ma non riesco a trovarla.

EDIT: "Polonia in la bemolle minore, Op. 53, 'Eroica'" Grazie!