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"Kimiko: My next project, which will be an audio-only project, will be to record the Chopin Préludes on a Pleyel piano that Chopin himself actually played." So

"Kimiko: My next project, which will be an audio-only project, will be to record the Chopin Préludes on a Pleyel piano that Chopin himself actually played." Sounds very interesting. I wonder if there will be any attempt to reflect the performance styles current when Chopin was writing. It would be fun to try to match the acoustic of the first performances as well perhaps. One way of recovering some flavour of performance style is through students of the composer who recorded... http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/chapters/chap6.html http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/chapters/chap6.html

robertDouglass 12y ago
Indeed. One of the things that Kimiko is looking forward to is the pedal. Chopin is extremely precise with his pedal marks, to the point where many performers overlook them almost altogether because they're so demandingly prescriptive. Kimiko, the purist that she is, wants to perform Chopin's pedalling as close to exactly like he wanted it as possible, and is looking forward to hearing what it sounds like on the Pleyel piano, in the hope that it will explain some of the difficult to understand aspects of his pedalling markings.
- keithpeter 12y ago
  I shall look out for the kickstarter on this project. Is there a mailing list or other notification of the Chopin project? (Mind you, Cortot and Schnabel where not what one might call purists).
  - robertDouglass 12y ago
    Kimiko's mailing list: http://eepurl.com/-9uzf http://eepurl.com/-9uzf
    - keithpeter 12y ago
      Subscribed: awaiting the grey listed confirmation email. YC note: they are using mailchimp