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What a delight to watch this

An adult psyche in a child's body .... a reincarnate who has played the piano in other lives ....

Good episode but I have to say that I sorta prefer the Chopin compositions that are a little less Bach inspired. Is that wrong?

I have severe asthma, and when the breathlessness comment hit, it just hit me. I knew the passage immediately, and how it could be phrased to reflect that. It really does convey a sense of what its like to struggle to breathe. I'm never going to hear that piece the same way again.

The piano Mr. Ohlsson plays has a scintillating, opaline tone. Is it his piano?

This is golden! Thank you!!!

As someone who's been thrilled and tortured by the etudes for a long time, I still learnt a lot from this episode. Couldn't possibly imagine a better team than Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson to present these!

36:06 “I’m not really in shape to play this” then proceed to play perfectly

I am still learning english, but i'm going to hear all this podcast because is about Chopin😅

Thank you, Ben and Garrick 🙏🙏🙏- pure magic, as always! ❤️❤️❤

All I can add is that simply we are just lucky... so very fortunate to have this resource. For all of you that put this together for us - thank you.

Sit up straight

Random note not mentioned regarding the Winterwind etude : Every single interval up to a 5th is being featured here. The first 6 notes use all intervals up to a 5th except for 2nds, which is completed by the first note in the 2nd grouping, spelling out all the intervals except for a half step. But where is that half step? Of course it's the most prominent melody note being used in the left hand. 4th, Major 3rd, 5th, tritone, minor 3rd, and finally the whole step to the first note in the next group, while the left hand is featuring the half step

Keeps getting better and better, nice job ! And still need that Chopin T-shirt !

Came for the Chopin Podcast, stayed for Sparky‘s Magic Piano.

Hey, curious as to whether the Trois Nouvelles Etudes (published posthumously) are going to get a mention? They're not the technique fireworks and numbers 2 and 3 are (sorry!) kinda ho-hum. But the moment I heard the first, in F minor, I became obsessed with it, the soundscape it triggered in me. Are these three, which never seem to merit much mention, accepted as part of the Chopin Etude cannon or are they treated like weird siblings to the Two Sets?

Thank you for yet another wonderful episode! I have to comment yet again on Richter (my favourite Chopin interpreter). No, the famous clip on him playing the Op 10 no 4 is not sped up. The pitch is not altered, and he did play it similarly fast on other occasions. For example, at a wonderful all Chopin recital in Moscow in 1950, which is available here on YT. As an encore at the end of that recital, he plays the Op 10 no 4 Etude at a similar speed as in the famous clip, but the clarity and control is amazing. But the whole 1950 all Chopin recital is simply magical. According to Lazar Berman, the spontaneity of Richter in the 1940s and 1950s was a unique phenomenon in pianism, and Glenn Gould had a very similar opinion. I think that I understand why they thought this.

Ben, I am new to your channel. You are a brilliant pianist and I have subscribed! Whomever did write the piece was a genius. A powerful and unusual waltz. Bravo for your fine performance. I have been away from TH-cam for quite a while and looking forward to recording some new works myself. Pleased to meet you! ~Jackie

Hello Ben. I started playing as an adult. Any recommendations on where to start with the Etudes ? And how do we know when to start ? And she we master certain works prior ?

Hello Ben. I started playing as an adult. Any recommendations on where to start with the Etudes ? And how do we know when to start ? And she we master certain works prior ?

Are you sure “doppio movimento” means double the tempo? I have never interpreted this indication as such. I think it means something like there are two lines, each one moving at its own pulse. It doesn’t have much to do with tempo, it’s an indication of structure…

My singing teacher used to say to me that the music was not the notes on the page.

So, it actually is OK to look at the keyboard while you're playing.

Op. 25 no. 8 was one of the most rewarding etudes for my technique and for warming up that I have ever learned. While compositionally simpler than other etudes, it can sound really nice with a creative and thoughtful performance.

I love how those old music critics expressed their anger with such grace and precision. It’s so romantic and classical, dropping the F-bomb with style. Absolutely historical!

This is revolutionary-it would be deeply appreciated if he were alive to witness it today.

When Claude Debussy edited Chopin's Études at the end of his life as he was dying of cancer, he said: "Chopin is the greatest of them all, for with the piano alone he discovered everything." I look at the Études and will never disagree. Nobody else comes close.

ben, that impossible part of the 10/1 (ascending F7) can be solved by allowing the 4th finger (on the A) to loosely curl under itself slightly almost going onto the fingernail, with a rising wrist, allowing the hand to move toward the piano, with a slight rightwards rotation and motion towards the top Eb with a flat 5th finger. The 4th finger ends up a bit on its side just barely resting on the A, as the pivot, if you do it right. Hope this helps. BTW, I practiced that particular spot for 3 years before I got it.

43:22 I'm telling you right now: That's GENIUS! In my case, I play those notes like a karate hit just for the drama, with the 5th finger, but I'll start now to do like Mr. Ohlsson :D

The most difficult part of the Chopin Etudes, is realizing (eureka!) the particular motions that make them all (all of them, yeah you heard me) easy. The technical difficulty is an illusion. All FC's Etudes fit beautifully to the hand, and if you simply take the time to think (really think!) about what the right choreography is, they all become absolutely effortless.

I think Ashkenazy's op 10 nr 1 is one of the all time greatest performances of any piano piece, the texture he gets is amazing

Only videos on youtube where I hit like before I am even start watching the video. 50 minutes flew by, and I could watch all day of this.

Josh is really the best. He knows so many facets of why the process of practicing the Piano ist so fascinating and deep and how to convey it in an understandable unpretentious and simple way

Ohlsson saying shit like "That wasn't very good" or "I'm not in shape to play this etude" before/after whipping out fragments of Chopin etudes I would drop kick a corgi to be able to play is the funniest shit. Also his storm sound effect at 35:00 is gold, LOL'd at that.

This lesson would have been invaluable for me while i was struggling learning the four Ballades and the Preludes in my teens, back in the 50s. I really hope many young pianists follow it. Thank you.

Extraordinary that Chopin wrote nine of the op 10 etudes in 1830, when he was 19 or 20, and all twelve were completed before he turned 23.

Super! Thank you both.

Didn't want this video to end!!!! Loved it

Your channel better explode. You deserve it with all the hard work you have put in.

30:06 semitones 😂

I love this collaboration! What great insight

He lost me at 'one of the great compositions that Chopin composed.' Do these people EVER think???

Ohlsson is such a mensch. A great pianist, a great artist, totally unpretentious and his lesson on op. 10 #1 is spot on.

Chopin's Etudes are great for studying all sort of techniques but they have been written by someone who had large/larger hands. Trying to play Chopin's Etudes as a person with small hands is like a torture. It is double the effort with doubtful results. Thankfully though there are nowadays piano keyboard modifications that customize piano keyboards to each pianist's hands. But this type of modification can be done only on your own piano, ( it is not a digital keyboard on top of the one of the piano but it is mechanical keyboard that replaces the existing one ) and that because piano manufacturers don't offer pianos with different size of keyboards. But if you invest to modify the piano you can then focus on the score instead of having to train your hand to adapt on the size of the keyboard and then try to master each and every Etude's technique.

Yulianna Avdeeva is truly wonderful, nice to see her inclusion.

Juana Zayas recording of the Chopin Etudes are worth hearing!

ARGERICH op 10 no 1 is the absolute bestt!

28:30 he played with two hands 😮

"As a sneaky musician friend of mine said, he didnt say not to." Laughed out loud.