When a phrase is marked piano and then pianissimo in the very next breath, it's tempting to just play it quieter.
But a dynamic marking asks for a color, not only a volume.
In this lesson segment from his tonebase course on Sibelius's Violin Concerto, James Ehnes walks through a small phrase that appears twice in the second movement, shading the first to carry the intensity of the bars before it and letting the second settle into something more resigned.
This is just the beginning...
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