Lovely performance of a beautiful song.

Bravo!

Well played- however I beleive this piece demands a shimmering legato over a cantabile melody, it sounds too marcato, the phrases should be heard as a single breath not as a series of notes but as a wash. ( Im not condoning pedal fetishism, rather keeping the motive elements and the lyrical separate through this type of phrasing. ) That said, I've never played the piece, so I am not saying I can do better. You did very well. But the difference between very well and exceptional is exactly this matter of "touch". I adore Rach or I wouldn't bother posting about it. To me this song should sound like the shimmering light on a lake at twilight, with the melody as the clear firefly hovering over it.