Week 4 Beethoven Challenge – Recordings Watch Party 🎥🎶
Week 4 is here, and it's time to share!
For this final week of the Beethoven Challenge, your goal is simple:
record your piece and submit it for our community Watch Party.
It doesn’t have to be “finished” or perfect. In fact, it’s more useful if it isn’t. Record where you are right now with your Beethoven and let that be your snapshot of growth from Week 1 to Week 4.
How to participate:
Record your Beethoven selection (phone video is totally fine).
Upload it to Youtube!
Post the link in the Week 4 thread below with:
Piece and movement
One sentence: “The thing I worked on most in this piece was…”
We’ll collect submissions and feature as many as we can in the Watch Party, with live commentary, encouragement, and a chance to hear how everyone has grown over the month.
This week’s challenge:
Don’t wait until you “deserve” to record. Hit record, share your current best, and join us for the Watch Party!!
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Hi everyone. This is my recording of Bagatelle op.119-11. I found difficult: playing trill while holding one note, and articulating legato and staccato clearly.
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Hi Fellow Beethoven Challengers,
I had the opportunity earlier this week to attend a lecture on Beethoven by the wonderful pianist and Beethoven scholar, Jonathan Biss. Afterwards, there was a post-lecture meet & greet with the artist and I told him about our Beethoven Challenge group. He was gracious enough to agree to making a short inspirational video for our group. He speaks about his own relationship to Beethoven's music and the satisfaction that can come from the struggle. I hope you find this as encouraging as I did.
I promised to share this only with our group and not on any social media platforms. Please honor that promise with me.
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An edited comment here (I forgot to write what I was working on most with this piece) -- one area of focus was choosing different fingering options in the scale passages and some other fingering. I'm using the Schnabel edition, which has great but some counterintuitive fingering options. The other main thing is staying calm even though the music is intense . . . Like --I am supposing-- many of us, I really, really could have used another week! I felt like my nervous system was rather fried today; but this at least gives a sense of the 2nd movement. Way better on a real piano!
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I do have to play the Pathetique Sonata Rondo movement at a recital on Sunday. I wish I didn’t have a day job and I could work on this a bit more.