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Wonderful lecture as always. Pity that the pianist performing the Scherzo #2 doesn't follow many of the indications in the score.

Thank you. This was just lovely and fascinating. ❤

Alan Walker is a fine historian and presenter and Jayne Sterling was a good soul and friend to Chopin.

Professor Alan Walker has provided invaluable insight in Chopin's life and music. His narration is inimitable.

A great composer, a fantastic biographer, a brilliant presentation. Thank you Professor Walker.

What a gift, Alan Walker. Beautifully written and put together. Thank you!

Pliss, legends?

He’s clicking his pen as he talks!!! I’m not the only one!

Whats the piece at 27:37

I wonder if Chopin slowed down the tempo as his health declined? I've had several conversations with people recently saying how there are too many pianists today playing way too fast.

Merci

Merci.

5:32 "One wishes that more pianists would walk away at the age of 35" . Cynic!

Merci. Zen and the Art of Piano Playing.

Merci

I've seem several of Alan Walkers lectures, and he doesn;t dissapoint. I have to admit that I am new to music, only starting the piano at 65 yoa. Developing an ear has been quite the challenge, since I was born with two left ears. However, I was never drawn to Chopin as I have been to Beethoven and Bach, Haydn and Mozart. Until I heard Wim Winters explain the Whole Beat Metronome Concept. And I heard several Chopin Préludes played at "rehearsal room tempo". They sound exquisite. I have a question for Mr. Walker. Is there any documented evidence of how long a performance of one of Chopin's works existed at the time? He mentioned that the complete works takes 40 minutes to play, and yet it seems that many pianists in the competitions have broken the 4 minute mile barrier.

Excellent and so informative !

Thank you, Dr. Walker

De veras?

No explicar. lo que sabemos.

Y la música. ?

Wonderful!

Solo. Hablan. ? Musica.

In my humble opinion was Liszt actually a Austrian. He spoke German and was a true German. He couldn't speak Hungarian. The fact that Austria at that time belonged to Hungaria doesn't matter. Slovakia belonged to the Hungarian imperium as well. Todays Bratislava (at that time named Pressburg) was the capitol of the Hungarian empire. But non of them spoke Hungarian.

Thank you Professor behalf of ALL Hungarian for STRENGTHENED the FACT about our GODLY composer and pianist his MAGYAR identity!!! NOBODY DARES TO QUESTIONING THIS FACT EVER!!!

💥 I have all 3 books about Liszt from Alan Walker. It's a music treasure. Alan himself is a miracle. When reading Liszt's biography, I became obsessed with him. Liszt is my ideal as a musician and as a human being. 🎉❤❤❤

Please enable automatic subtitles on your channel, for us, non English speaking people. 🎉❤❤

There's a strange noise perhaps from a cellphone along with Alan's voice, unfortunately. But of course, this is a treasure 🎉❤

I had a 2 piano 8 hand group called the Easternmost Piano Quartet. We played in the eastern half of America on and off for ten years--between 1990 and 2000. The music the EPQ played was with one exception arrangements. I inherited my mother's collection of 2p8h music. This consisted of 180 pieces: all the C19 symphonies, overtures, dances of all kinds, chamber music (/Schumann's Eb piano quintet) and our one original piece called "Zvon" by Mark de Voto premiered by a 2p8h group at the musical festschrift for Mark in Boston in January of 2000. There were a few Bach pieces, and a few C20 pieces as well. Transcription allowed we pianists to participate in all that great music that normally pianists would experience by sitting in an audience. My mother also collected arrangements for 1 piano 4 hands of most of the chamber music of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Borodin, Tschaikowsky etc. And, of course, the symphonies. I donated that whole collection to the San Francisco Conservatory in memory of my mother, Kate Mostel. The pianist William Wellborn was the EPQ's lead pianist. He was also a teacher at SFC.

What is the intro music, please?

Thank you sir .A great video

México. ,🇲🇽. Lo conosemos en n Biografías.y estudios de piano......

Hablas. Demasiado para que?

17:31 Lamond

12:35 Rosenthal

Riveting. The excerpt from the Beethoven sonata was heavenly, only duplicated by the most sensitive artists.

Mr Walker thank you for your honest open high quality research and work! I wish there was a writer like you on all topics!!!!! I would like you also to take the side and explain to the British public more about Eastern Europe. Britain has been manipulated by warmongers to attack the Russian lands while inventing the propaganda which befit the Jewish banksters such as Zelenskyy who is an actor for them. Britain herself has been led by Jews nowdays who have no feelings about the connected Christian communities from America to Russia.

Dear Mr. Walker: Your book, _Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years,_ transformed my life. I read it at university over 25 years ago when I should have been studying economics. I never thought I'd be able to communicate with you directly. Thank you so very much!

I've loved every minute of these lectures. Thank you so much.

This is such a sensible talk, so refreshingly different from all the verbal and musical claptrap that one hears so often. You have inspired me to reconsider Liszt's music and artistic wisdom which I have largely neglected.

So interesting! What I always wonder about is the tuning of the piano... Did Chopin tune his own instrument in such an isolated place? Or did he just suffer quietly...?

It doesn't stand alone. The final fugue movement of Beethoven 's Hammerklavier sonata is as futuristic as Chopin's finale of the Funeral March sonata.

Wann wird endlich Chopins Walzer in H-Dur von 1848 aus englischem Privatbesitz veröffentlicht?

Alan Walker I am super gratefull for so much wonderful information about my HERO Franz Liszt, I dream sometimes at night about seeing and hearing the master play live, inspired perhaps through the many recordings of his pupils and reading Alan Walkers book about Liszt! THANK YOU soo very much!!

The F# Nocturne seems to be one of, if not the most frequently recorded classical piano solo in the pre-LP era. Listen to Raoul Pugno's recording, perhaps the very first, played at the apparently "correct" tempo.

I'd listen to professor Walker give a lecture on blueberry muffin recipes. Regarding the finale of the Op.35 Sonata, if one listens to various other recordings of it by pianists born primarily in the 19th Century, we can hear them try to find hidden melodies in the rushing torrent of notes, by emphasizing certain ones. Listen to Lortat, Godowsky, DeGreef, Cortot's several goes at it, among others. I once heard a professor in University long ago reference the Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17#4, as one of the first steps toward atonality.

Sickly? Cachaphonous?! hahahahaha!

This October 2024 it will be 175 years ago that Chopin died. And yet so many people worldwide are daily busy with the compositions that Chopin made, and the legacy that he left for us. 175 years later.

Really interesting. Thank you Dr. Walker for your insights and erudition!

Gold.