The big achievement for this week is the decision to start renting practice rooms fairly regularly so I can have access to acoustics. Polishing my pieces has been challenging--there are little spots in everything I want to clean up but which are proving a bit more resistant than I'd like. I also tend to play things intensely or exaggeratedly at first, so part of the process is refining my interpretation of pieces with more maturity, warmth, and subtlety. I started Scriabin Op. 11 no. 2 which I mostly "learned" last year but gave up on working on, not being able to get the sound I wanted. That doesn't seem to be as much of an issue now.
The Galuppi is what I'm really working on, and once I get that to a place I'm comfortable with I'll rent a piano room. I've cleaned a lot up of the intricate rhythms (lots of 32nd notes and grace notes), am working on the runs, and the only other tricky bit is a 3-4 trill on the first page that must be done while holding 2 down in the same hand (that concludes in a third played by 1-3, so I can't really substitute the note the 2 holds down without breaking line for the third). It's awkward feeling--I can get it up to 32nds or so, but they sound stiff. I'm doing some exercises and tactics to even them out and add a little ease and nuance to them. As an intermediate player, I find that a lot of pieces have one little spot that I can only play clumsily and poorly (and which usually depend on fingers 4 or 5 of the right hand), which puts me off so much repertoire that is otherwise well within my reach. Every day I work on this issue, and it's slowly, very slowly improving.
