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This is fantastic!

Can you please explain all these trills in the second theme of the first movement? These two bars are kinda clear but what about the rest or do you play 2-4-1 throughout? I'm a bit ocnfused, Schnabel and Henle have the 3d finger in a bunch of places (I guess in order to not play black keys with the thumb) using 3-5 I think in some places. What do you think about htis?

Thank you! It would be super helpful, if you had a camera showing your fingers from the top. For those of us who do not have a teacher it is sometimes really helpful to see which keys exactly are played in order to verify one's deciphering of the notes in the sheet.

You are truly a phenomenal and outstanding musician, pianist and teacher. I wish my daughter was taking lessons with you!

I see you were aiming at clarity, which was excellent. Thanks and thanks and forever thanks.

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That was very helpful. I practised in the same way

Amazing thankyou so much for sharing! That note about not signalling before the big ff as it might spoil the effect is incredibly useful and relevant to me at the moment! Exactly what I needed to hear :)

This is great advice, really helpful. Also I notice that in many recordings of this, there seems to be a gap in rhythm when the hand moves back down to the bass. I definitely prefer it with the absolute minimum gap needed for physically moving the hand that far.

On another point, the urtext does not show a crescendo, but everyone except Barenboim plays it with a crescendo. You say at a certain point we can "consider" a crescendo. Why crescendo when it's not written that way? Is it a matter of personal choice? I admit that a crescendo feels natural, and it takes a lot of concentration not to crescendo. But it's not written that way.

I find the topic of interpretation intriguing and would like to get better at hearing a phrase or motif etc and attaching some sort of meaning to it. Can you suggest any resources, books, periodicals etc that you have found helpful? Thanks Andrew

I was watching videos trying to see how various people fingered this run. Here's the interesting thing: We are told to learn scales because we will come across them in every piano work, which is pretty much true. So here comes a scale that every student must learn, and the fingering we learn is not right, we have to do something else. That raises the question why do scales, other than a finger exercise and to learn the keys. Your fingering does not work for me, but that's ok. In your example, it's in 5/8. Where did that come from. The score is in common time. You also used flats where Beethoven used sharps. They are the same note on the piano, but it's disturbing and hard to follow when you make up your own version of the score. It's hard to follow your fingering when looking at the same run in the urtext. Perhaps that explains why you never gave us the practice sheets. Nevertheless, a good video with many good qualities which caused me to subscribe.

Thank you!

Hello, I'm a beginner, but my goal is to play the whole sonata, I understand that this will not be my first piece of music, not even my hundredth. Could you give me some advice on what exercises I need to gradually get to this level, in which direction is it better to move?

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

Thank you so much! I was looking for different scale rhythms that went beyond the usual long short and short long variations. I downloaded the different scale rhythms and it is extremely helpful and a wonderful resource. I appreciate it, especially since I know this was probably a very time consuming endeavor. This is one of the best videos I've seen on line for scale practice ideas. Once again, thank you!

Could you share your thoughts about Beethovens sonatinas that examiners expect to hear such delicacy in tone that it makes Beethovens sonatinas do different Fromm the Sonatas

That was helpful thanks

Thank you for the video! 🎉 I often find it difficult to control the Alberti not over power the RH melody. Would try your method.

Fingering lesson is really helpful!! Thank you!!

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you for this, so insightful. I just started playing it a few weeks ago and this was wonderful.

I greatly appreciate your passion for expression and ability to articulate subtleties of the piece. Subscription well earned!

Very useful video! Thank you for your work with it! Are you planning to make other videos like this? I am a hobby pianist and right now I'm working hard with one of my favourite sonatas, the final movement of Beethoven's f minor sonata (Op. 2 No. 1). It has many technical difficulties in it, and I would really greatful some advices about this piece.

Thanks for sharing your POV of this Masterpiece

In Argentina, Casella edition was the most popular, which recommends 2-4-3. Interesting that that Barry Cooper says that in 1800, the standard way to play mordents was like triplets.

This is a very effective exercise

Yes, used it before. I need to slow down a bit when accent 2,3,4.

Didn't get this recommended to me until now for some reason. Thank you! Will practice these techniques

I was struggling on this part while practicing. Thank you very much for the helpful practicing tip!

Aren’t these mordants and not trills

Play it, dog.

Pathétique indeed. What else? You are up again Gould, Backhaus, Kempff.

Sorry, your teaching very great but my English is so poor. I’m now practicing this note and very difficult to grasp imagination clearly. From my mother and Japanese teacher, I’ve recommend to have lesson of foreign teacher. May live Germany or Austria. And they hear And naturally get how it speak soundly by key tones, like human voice, sings piano naturally than Japanese songs. I like German language too, so, I hope teach me your way in this like and with playing more in detail as awe cam to show to your passionate wants glittery as you do. Can I hear your whole piano works for your works end, will you?

This press great grief, really?

That melody isn’t press accent, it is doubtful for climax, really? If decent accent to press, we have convincible for last, doesn’t it?

Good sound proof cover!

So fascinating to hear your analysis of the 'grave' passage of the Sonata. I loved it😍especially as I'm learning this piece currently. Thank You. Subscribed!

Wonderful videos! Thank you so much! Would be great if you can post videos for arpeggios. 😊

Is that a C7X? The bass is really nice.

I am not at this level yet, but it was really inspiring to watch (also I deeply love this sonata so wonderful to hear your feeling of it).

Thank you taking time to explain. Great job, keep them coming.

Great advice from an outstanding pianist. Much appreciated. Bravo!

Thank you. Very helpful. Your site deserves more subscribers and support!

Thanks so much for this video, you must put so much effort to do this. A bit about me why learning piano, actually I'm amateur flute player, and finished some fundamental music theory online courses. Then I realize that learning piano can make me understand better the chords. Then I started this journey. I like to pay attention to fundamental techniques even though it could be boring for some people, and also this is the way I learn my flute. And recently, I'm bit surprised that good piano fingerings can help a lot on flute too, especially for the universal notorious pinky/ring finger positions😆. It's better to practice that on piano then apply to the flute, meaning that playing hundreds of hours only on flute can't get less-tension nicely curved pinky fingers. It's easier to understand and improve this issue on piano. So I feel so lucky to find this channel, as beginner, it's so practical to watch the finger positions even though the whole variations need lots of time to digest and practice. I know it's hard to make great quality videos like this, hope you don't exhaust yourself too much. If it's possible, I would like a list of several shorter versions of this video because it's easier to watch one after another as a beginner. And for the music sheets and this video, I feel bit guilty no need to pay for this. Probably you could add support/donate when downloading the pdf, I would like to support the channel with lots of valuable hard workings.

You did the best interpretation of this beautiful music I ever heard😂

Thank you

I am so happy I found you. I love this sonata and have struggled with it for years and your tips are invaluable

Thank you. Excellent tip. It’s not always the fast parts of a piece need to be played properly so this helps give the piece the professional start it deserves. Thanks again.