5 Days Left: all movements
I should have done this before; instead of making the videos at the end of my practice I decided to go in cold and film it all at the beginning of my practice, at performance speed. It really exposes everything that needs work!!
The 1st movement is generally pretty good except for the two bars with new fingerings and the hardest section. I'm working on it now and making notes in the score to remind myself when the pattern changes so that I don't stumble. There's also a page near the end where I'm not solid on the notes but today I played it fine for the recording. But I was internally panicking so that's a sign that it needs more practice!
The 2nd movement is the most solid, except for una corda foot confusion. My left foot is not used to doing much, let alone figuring out when to hit the Bluetooth pedal vs a piano pedal. Plus a few minor places where I need to memorize where my fingers need to be at a page turn. But overall it's feeling pretty good.
The 3rd movement weird chords are not solid, and the part with the "military sounding" bits are barely memorized and today they fell apart at the faster tempo. Not feeling ready at all for those parts and they need a lot more work.
The 4th movement: maybe I started too fast? But it's clearly also not solid with wrong notes all over the place. Weirdly enough the parallel runs where I said I couldn't play the left hand well were surprisingly good. And my right hand scales are always super solid and sound great. Even if I play a bunch of wrong notes in the cadenza it still sounds impressive if I play it with confidence 😂 But there's still so much to work on and it's difficult and fast.