About the first piano concerto.
I was wondering about a bar of the solo part where the piano plays a high F#, not possible on beethoven's (and other's) pianos. It only came to my mind when I heard the John Eliot Gardiner's recording with a copy of a piano of that time, and the pianist, a brilliant one I may say, played it as a natural F, it doesn't get right when you think of the harmony issues.
This part is after the tutti part when the first solo ends, still in the exposition, the piano enters again with the second main theme in G. When developing the theme it comes to the folowing: D-C#-D-C#-D-C#-D-C#(next bar)D-E-D-C#-D-F#-E-D-Cn. This is repeated in the reexposition in the end, but transposed to C, so that the F# becomes a B and this B is in the piano range.
I play this concerto a lot, I love playing it, it relaxes me, but now I don't know what should I be playing here instead of the F#, to keep the music reliable to its time, or if Beethoven himself changed it to a F#, until then, if any of you guys have somthing to say, I'll play it as a C natural....
This part is after the tutti part when the first solo ends, still in the exposition, the piano enters again with the second main theme in G. When developing the theme it comes to the folowing: D-C#-D-C#-D-C#-D-C#(next bar)D-E-D-C#-D-F#-E-D-Cn. This is repeated in the reexposition in the end, but transposed to C, so that the F# becomes a B and this B is in the piano range.
I play this concerto a lot, I love playing it, it relaxes me, but now I don't know what should I be playing here instead of the F#, to keep the music reliable to its time, or if Beethoven himself changed it to a F#, until then, if any of you guys have somthing to say, I'll play it as a C natural....
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