Week 4 – Play Through & Share

Welcome to Week 4 of the Romantic Music Challenge.

This week is about letting go of the microscope and trusting the arc you’ve built. You’ve worked through notes, texture, and character. Now it’s time to experience the piece as a whole.

 

This week, your goal is to play through your piece—or your chosen section—as a complete musical thought.

Practice Prompts

Choose one or two and explore:

- Play through without stopping, even if something goes wrong
- Decide where the emotional high point of the piece lives
- Notice where your attention drifts, and gently bring it back to the narrative
- Imagine you’re performing for one specific listener

 

Sharing for This Week

When you’re ready, share a recording of your full piece or selected section. Audio or video is welcome.

We’ll begin compiling submissions for our Romantic Watch Party on February 13, where we’ll listen together and celebrate everyone’s work.

 

Press record, play it through, and let it be what it is!

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    • Astrida_Gobina
    • Yesterday
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    Hi! This is my version of Chopin Etude op.10 no.9. Unfortunately, I cannot do it without mistakes yet, but here it is as it is right now. 
    Thank you for this challenge and the wonderfully motivating four weeks of company in working on and enjoying music!

    https://youtube.com/shorts/XCsD-dggwps?si=44VcBeOPZMjvOC9E

      • Doug_Weiss
      • 23 hrs ago
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       Astrida, bravo!  Wonderful!  Very impressive.  I enjoyed this very much.

      Now just between me and you, what's the secret?  How do you play the f to c in the LH with 5-4 fingering?  And you do it looking very relaxed as if it's nothing?  This is a bit of a struggle for me.  I can comfortably do an f to b in the LH with 5-4 fingering but f to c is so tough.  And then to do it for nearly four pages.

      • Astrida_Gobina
      • 23 hrs ago
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       Thank you Doug! 
      I think I rotate the LH, but there is some stretch that needs getting used to as well.

      • PViseskul
      • 21 hrs ago
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       I totally agree with Doug here on your 4-5 LH ... it looks so relaxed and fluid, and I'm mesmerised by both your movement and the sound of the music!

      • hot4euterpe
      • 20 hrs ago
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       Well done Astrida. Great sighing figure in the LH thumb and clean trill figures and octaves. Has a driving, agitated tempo. Great to listen to! Thanks for sharing =)

      • Astrida_Gobina
      • 20 hrs ago
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       Thank you Priya! My teacher said he has never seen anyone play this with 5-4 in LH, but I somehow like the feeling of freedom and agility this fingering offers.

      • Astrida_Gobina
      • 20 hrs ago
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       Thank you Dustin!

    • PViseskul
    • 4 hrs ago
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    Hi - here's my submission of the Rachmaninoff Elegie op 3 no 1 

    https://youtu.be/gcLsXkhg-MA

    I'm feeling overwhelmed to have managed to get it a clean one. It took me about an hour and by that time my mind was a complete wreck from just trying to hold my nerve together.

    I hope you will enjoy it.

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