Surviving Arabesque

Well, after practicing incessantly all week, I survived my recital on Saturday afternoon. It wasn't my best performance of the piece, but at least I feel like I didn't totally embarass myself. There were three spots where I kind of "screwed up":

• I had a dramatic pause in the beginning where I overshot a jump and had to recorrect my hand position.
• My ending was really weak because I was afraid to try and execute the big jump at the end very fast while I was so nervous.
• There was a spot in the middle where I started to play the wrong note and then backed up and corrected. But I did it without even pausing so might not recognize it as a mistake unless you are familiar with the piece and listening closely.

Without further ado, here is the recording (made possible by a generous gift of an awesome camcorder from Rosey's Mom... Thanks Mom!):