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Im glad to see im struggling at painless tier haha fair assessment

1:18 whats ur handspan?

Best piano passage ever!

I dont know them by there opus number, i know them from there sonata number

Do one by movements that will give a different picture. 73

Yes the hammer is the hardest. But so is. The last one fugues are hard. 73

Is the intro Chopin’s piano concerto in F minor second movement?

Why those. I agree with Ballade no 4 being there, I agree thats the hardest ballade among the 4. I would disagree with the Nocturne, Preludes and Etudes op 10 no 1 and no 2. I agree that op 25 no 6 is among the hardest etudes. There are much harder pieces than op 10 no1 and 2 like Op 25 no 11(Winter Wind), op 10 no 4(Torrent Etude), op 25 no 10(Octaves) op 10 no5(Black Keys), Ocean(op 25 no 12), All the 4 Scherzos, 4 Ballades, 4 Impromptus, Fantasy in F minor op 49, Barcarolle op 60, Polonaises op 61, op 22, op 53, op 44, All the Sonatas.

I can agree with a lot of these. However, just wondering why is op 14 no1 , op 14 no 2, op 2 no1, op 10 no1 and op 10 no 2 in Painless. I would actually put these in the Same category with Pathetique and Moonlight in Advanced. You do realise that Op 49 no 2 is like Grade 6 Level. Op 79 is like Grade 8 level. And then all those I mentioned above are ARSM Level and found in the Associate Diplomas like Pathetique and Moonlight. So these ones I mentioned in particular are significantly harder than op 49 no1, no 2 and op 79 so I hope you understand why I think those should be in the second Category. I also think Les Adieux should be in the last category, In ABRSM this is both LRSM and FRSM.

Joplin? Nazareth? Just wondering about your opinion on these composers. Not really competition material, of course.

they are all equally hard.

what about sonatas 2 and 3

Great video. Thanks.

I think that Chopin's easiest work is his Prelude in E minor

Did you get to learn and perform both op.111 and Hammerklavier in a concert? I have, and it is simply unth8nkable that you would put Hammerklavier before op.111. To me, op.111 was a breeze compared to Hammerklavier in terms of learning time and preparation for actual recitals. So either you never learned and performed both, or you are just delusional.

I really find op.106 harder to understand than op.111 😂 You literally messed it up

No matter why Henle have a 'Beethoven - five famous Piano Sonatas' edition. It includes Op 13, 26, 27-2,28, 31-2 that's all in your advanced cataloge. I have this book, I was hoping to buy this for a lighter bundle (I really don't want to buy them in seperate edition but this 5 bundle are already almost 2/3 of thickness of full edition of book 1 or 2.

Sono d'accordo sul fatto che la sonata opera 111 sia difficilissima dal punto di vista interpretativo, e specialmente il secondo tempo. 👍

Op 10#2 is harder than op 26. And op 101 is harder than op 53. I agree with your choice of op 111 as being the hardest.

This is a very technically demanding piece

I would say Ballades No. 1 and 4 have the hardest Codas.

Thank you for the suggestions. It would be great if these can be demonstrated on a scale with sharps or flats as they are more challenging than C major.

Hello , I clicked on your website as I was interested in lesson, is that still active?

I am too scared to try

I am too scared to try

I disagree with the last two. I flip them in terms of difficulty because the “Hammerklavier” is a MARATHON…utterly exhausting to play.

That last looks like it’s harder than it looks.

Your commentary about the l;ast two “painless” sonatas was unclear, implying that they also only have two movements. But they are indeed FULL sonatas.

Im Sorry but the first sonata is very difficult whit the last movement

Nice explanation and playing!

Great video! Thanks!

I loved this video, and I wanted to introduce my favourite fingering of chromatic scales also. I believe this Liszt's innovative fingering, as it was indicated so in Chasse-Neige's chromatic scale part. Right hand: 2345 123 1234 12 It's actually unnatural to start from C, let's move it 1 back to B. Then it becomes: 12345 123 1234 So you just repeat this. Left hand when starting from C: 1 54321 4321 32 Again, it's not natural to start from C. Move one up to C#. 54321 4321 321 I used this fingering for the left hand during the polyrhythm section of Chasse-Neige when left hand had a few runs while the right hand has melody and tremolo. C# to F natural 54321, F sharp and G natural 43, and it skips to A natural so I play 1, and reverse.

My go to fingering: RH starting on B ascending, 123451231234. Every octave the uses the same fingering - which is useful. Left hand is just the mirror image fingering. When I was younger, my teacher gave me a fingering that blew my mind. Essentially, it was the standard alternating 1s and 3s, however when descending in the right hand, the "3,2,1's" were placed on B, Bb,A and E,Eb,D as opposed to where the two white notes run consecutively.

im surprised that i use those fingering(1234 123 1234 etc) idea

Thanks very much for this info! I’ve been looking for ways to speed it up!

thanks to you, i can now reach 11th for both hands now!

Good try!

Probably controversial, but i find op 79 harder than the pathetique (I’ve played both) because even though it is shorter and what not it is bloody uncomfortable to play, and the 3rd mov has some really annoying bits that i dont see as much in the pathetique

Opus 111 as the pinnacle in your opinion, does actually make sense... it's c minor, we know what that means coming from him... that's Beethoven's way of signaling to a fellow musician that it's really personal, which means many stormy twists and turns as a way of him expressing his most personal stuff in the only way he had left to him..

1 hour per day! It’s focused. I switch topics in 5-15 minutes bursts since I’m a late beginner and don’t have very long pieces.

Where do you find the pdf of the sheet music you've been showing in the top of the video?

Op 90 should be level 2, (difficulty 1)..... not difficult at all. HammerKlavier should be the hardest. Actually 111 is technically easy, what makes it impossible is the musical content,

Don't under-estimate Op 49. I had attended a concert and a good pianist (i guess without much preparation) decided to play one of them as an encore...... and had a memory lapse, and subsequently, is a series of mistakes after mistakes..... It is simple (no doubt about it), but to play it without preparation can be tricky too.

The third movement of Opus 10 No. 2 is not "painless".

I’m working on OP. 90 right now for auditions into a school of music. Wish me luck 😁😄😀🙂😟😰💀💀 (I died twice while practicing it)

Star "Vladimir Bakk: Handmade" The best.

Ive been dabbling in piano all my life and haphazardly got to basically an early intermediate level, henle 5s and 4s. But jazz piano lol. So see I figured if progressive overload is good enough in the gym its probably good enough for piano too. So I set about actually trying to get better seriously for the first time in my pianistic career and well a couple months later im almost done with a decent sounding nocturne 55/1 and bach 2 part invention 13. The bach is only a henle 4 but honestly no joke over the month I learned it I think it literally leveled up my technique, powerful piece. Now im pushing into henle 6 territory and beyond

you saved me 😂❤

Cant play more then 30 minutes a day whitout being injuried. I thinkt that some people dont have the body to play 1-3 hours a day.