Thursday, July 11, 2013

Legato Phrasing

One of the most important technique required to play a beautiful Sonatine is legato phrasing. A lot of legato exercises can be found in exercises composition by Czerny, Gurlitt and Kohler.

This video showing Madeline performing "Memory" (by Gurlitt). We can hear Alberti Bass (the characteristic of classical piano accompaniment), long Legato phrasing and slur in this E minor piece. Madeline managed a beautiful slur and phrasing