Video has a slightly crackly performance of opus 9 no 2 by a pianists whose teacher was taught by Chopin. Listen carefully and be inspired to add extra character to ones own Chopin:-)
Sometimes rubato is mandatory. Bar ten has poco rit., abbreviating poco ritardando. Then bar eleven has a tempo. You would be expected to linger romantically over the repeated E flats at the start of bar ten, before getting crisply back to business for bar eleven.
But what of bar six? Chopin marks cresc. Koczalski slows down instead of getting louder. But how is bar six supposed to go? It has those off-beat accents; I never know what to do with them. I'll try it Koczalski's way. Slowing down to stretch the beat and make the accents conspicuously off the beat works for me :-)
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But what of bar six? Chopin marks cresc. Koczalski slows down instead of getting louder. But how is bar six supposed to go? It has those off-beat accents; I never know what to do with them. I'll try it Koczalski's way. Slowing down to stretch the beat and make the accents conspicuously off the beat works for me :-)