Etude Op 25 No 1

by G H Richardson

Composed by: Chopin

This is a very good example of a technically-difficult piano piece made easy with AMPLE, as anyone who has tried to play it will know. In programming it the problem was to get the double running accompaniment into a nice smooth legato.

Initially I used Ted Royffe's pianol from Bethena (AMPLINEX M06) for all parts but the notes were too separated for the accompaniment so I took off the attack and gave them more sustain, retaining the original definition for part 5 which merely emphasises certain notes. This is a beautiful piece and the result is not bad. Reverb helps.
 

Source: AMPLINEX 011 disk, file $.ETUDE


Published in AMPLINEX 011, May 1989