Schumann - Sonata g minor op. 22 (2nd recording)

Here I see some improvement. I felt comfortable in this tempo (it's about 112), but I want to play a little faster. Piano in sixteens was definitely better - I practised them in light staccato and in very slow legato almost without finger movement. The second practise method can cause lacks of articulation, so careful with that.

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Issues (bar number in brackets is the corresponding number of bar in reprise):

1. Exposition:
• sixteens in second theme are slower (starting from bar 67 {259}) - it's cause that the coda was in the tempo if the beginning
• sforzatos should be more sforzato (bar 1, 36{229}, 38{231})
• don't rush octaves in bars 23 {216}
• in the section which begins in bars 24 {217} dynamics should be different - chords in left hand and upper crochets in right hand should be forte. The rest of the notes I think that the should be mezzoforte till bar 28 {221}
• don't slow down descending motives in 33-36 {225-228}
• the motive in left hand in bar 36-40 {228-232} should be more aggressive
• don't rush octaves in bars 40-43 (especially the sixteen note) - I think it's nice to build the tension here, but it should be hold.
• I don't like staccato in bars 48 {240} and 50 {242}, I have to hear some recordings to know how it should sound. Don't rush the last eight note.
• I don't know the melody in chords in section starting from 48 {240}, so I don't build this small culmination in 57 {249}.
• Second theme in bar 59 {251} is to slow - ritardando is at bar 65 (but not in reprise). In bar 67 I should go back to previous tempo.
• Left hand in 67 - 70 {259-263} is sloppy.
• In 71-74 {263-267} there are some articulation issues.
• 75 - 82 {267-276) is forte
2. Development
• Bar 118-119 is without diminuendo
• More singing in melody in section starting from 121
• Show more melody in left hand in section starting from 138
• Hold on in 146-150
• Fix bars 179-190, some memory lapses.
3. Reprise
• Fix 233 and 235 - there is octave B flat and in the corresponding bar there is B, it shouldn't cause this seizure
• The descending is in forte 267
4. Coda
• Hold on in 302 (don't rush the last note)