END OF YEAR RECITAL 23-24

Name: Khrystyna Mykhailichenko Student Number: 30009839

Principal Study: Piano Department: Piano
Course Code: BM04S-1 Assessment Date: 14.05.2024
List of Works: Schumann Humoreske

Report: This report, completed by the Chair of the panel, reflects the combined views of the examiners. The mark given is based solely on this
performance/portfolio and takes into account mandatory requirements in accordance with Examinations Procedures 2023-24. Where conditions have not been met
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Start Time: 10.01am End Time: 10.29am
Running Time: 28 minutes Penalty Marks:

A very beautiful opening to this big cycle: you controlled the pianissimos with concentration and skill. Etwas
lebhafter: just make this a slight accelerando.
Sehr rasch und leicht: very playful and delicate, as well as ‘inside’ Schumann’s world, and good control of
texture in Noch rascher – you timed the return extremely well too. Watch rhythms in 237 and 238 – second
one a deliberate triplet.
Hastig: the opening of this was tender and very well voiced. Let more air into the faster movement of page
14; you got a little tight here, particularly 325-26. Try to think joy!
Bottom of 17: let the repeated D’s be alone, a magical bell effect to get us into the spiritual world of page 18.
A beautiful, intense Adagio at the bottom of page 19; allow the pedal to catch the B flat of 511 (this is
Schumann’s pedalling).
Einfach und zart had enormous poetry and feeling; I felt it needed more of a climax in the chromatic bars
540-541.
I loved your Intermezzo – it had such ringing cool and pulse, and sounded very relaxed as well as exciting.
The return at bar 615 – how could this sound different from the time before? More fantasy, perhaps, more
freedom?
A lovely playful stretta beginning on page 32: try to catch the offbeat accents in the right hand, starting bar
819.
Zum Beschluss, page 35: use the flowing tenor lines (865-867 onwards) to create even more heart and heat.
894 had enormous impact – bravo.
904-908 onwards sounded a little harsh in your search for passion: try to relax the hands and wrists here, and
at the very end.

This was an enormously mature, poetic and virtuosic account of a very complex work: your playing had real

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insight and compelling beauty. Bravo.

Mark/100: 93
Examiners: Professor Joanna MacGregor, Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano
Date: 14th May 2024