I've made so much progress on the second movement of the Dvořák piano quartet! I was playing with a recording and there's a series of descending chromatic octaves in 32nd notes that I was playing dramatically as if it were Chopin, and I just could not enter the next section even remotely close with the recording and I always felt lost. Finally I got out the metronome and dissected the rhythms and I was playing the 32nds much too fast and it's not supposed to speed up and be free. Now that it finally makes sense, I can practice the rhythms and entrance in my head while not at the piano 🙂
I decided to play along with a different recording that takes the second movement much slower and it turns out that I'm not the only one who is having trouble with counting-- Emanuel Ax is miscounting a rest multiple times at the end!! It's an eighth note rest before the piano part repeated over 3 bars but since it's so slow it's a very long eighth and he's only taking half the time as written. I only noticed because I've been playing along with the recording where they play it correctly!
Anyway, the second movement is coming along so well which is great news because there's still so much other stuff to work on. I think whenever I start a difficult work I feel so overwhelmed but now I'm definitely over the hump!