Customer Reviews for Preludes
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 14, 2009
chopin preludes
i like this edition
23 of 41 people found this review helpful.
Glenn Martin
Location: from Sheffield, S Yorkshire, UK
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 18, 2008
Rafael Joseffy
The fingerings suggested by Joseffy are magnificent: technically correct, imaginative and elegant. I find it frankly incredible that one of your reviewers should find them poor and unhelpful. I would suggest that he persists: just look at the fingerings to Preludes 13 and 15 as examples - the music seems to play itself if these are adopted.
19 of 37 people found this review helpful.
Samuel
Location: from Singapore
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 27, 2008
Good,
This edition is good. Another edition is the worst I have ever seen.
18 of 37 people found this review helpful.
carly
Location: from West Palm Beach
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
October 31, 2007
preludes
if you want chopin's preludes this is exactly what you are getting. It is great.
19 of 36 people found this review helpful.
stone fingers
Location: from philadelphia, pa.
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
August 14, 2007
lots of potential
there's some technique involved but the pieces are short.
19 of 39 people found this review helpful.
Tom St Denis
Location: from Ottawa, Ontario
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
July 9, 2007
A worthwhile collection to have.
Chopin was commissioned to produce a set of pieces, and this Prelude collection was the result. It's a complete collection, and most of the songs are above intermediate in skill level. Most people should be familiar with Prelude in E Minor (page 4 if I recall correctly). A very timeless piece.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Stephen
Location: from Cranford, NewJersey
August 6, 2006
Love chopin--hate jossefy
Jossefy is the worse possible editorer i have ever witnessed. Its actually laughable the fingerings he suggests. He didnt help me at all in what i think is the hardest prelude, the 24th one. I love schirmers (even though many do not) but i would suggest another editor, although i dont think schirmers has another editor. i would reccomend chopin preludes to ANYONE!!
5 of 10 people found this review helpful.
Matt Testoni, Private Piano Instructor
Location: from Goshen, NY
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
May 23, 2006
The essence of Chopin in one opus
There is so much to appreciate about Chopin in these beautiful pieces. The fingerwork for most of them is complex, yet each prelude allows the player to explore a different and very satisfying range of personal feeling and emotion.
6 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Luxembourg
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
February 19, 2005
Fantastic
A must for any piano player. Some of them are easier to learn (no. 4, 6, 20 for example) others are almost impossible unless you are a really advanced player (which I am not).
5 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Bob
Location: from Marblehead, MA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
September 5, 2002
Little gems
these are very fun to learn. Short... most are 1-2 pages. Every one exposes a new aspect of Chopin's genius. I have the Padrewski version, which is a nicer book and [allegedly] has better fingering, etc.
4 of 8 people found this review helpful.