I typically avoid Mazurkas but I may be won over now. As a pianist whose only real "superpower" with this instrument is decent sight-reading, I'm always in awe at how great your sight-reading is
7:39 So cool to see your reaction as you recognize certain musical phrases that Clara and Robert shared. I'm essentially clueless until you point them out. Same with the Clara - Chopin Mazurka similarities. Your excitement and enthusiasm is fun to see! 😄
There's all kinds of keyboard music out there. Clara Schumann, John Field, Clementi, CPE Bach, just al kinds of really talented people who don't get their due recognition, so it's nice to hear Clara's Chopin-esque style be played here
I once had an 1880 Broadwood straight strung 7 foot grand piano. What a sight to look down the piano and see the long straight strings! The sound board had so many layers of shellac that the wood grain had a three dimensional appearance.😊 I also picked up a floor lamp at goodwill one day. It looked just like the one here. I do not have the lamp or the piano anymore but now I have Tiffany's vlog. 🤔😊
That is great to be introduced to Clara Schumann's piano work. It stood unjustly behind others for a long time. Hopefully your Dresden recitals will be livestreamed 🙏 On a side line, the comparison with Chopin's Mazurkas is great!
What a joy to hear you play such great music from a composer that I had not heard before. Your sight-reading is extraordinary but not surprising given the dedication, hours of practice, and talent that you have. I am sure you are inspiring many pianists and would-be pianists.
So many female composers are ignored who shouldn't be. For mazurkas, besides an enchanting melody, the distinctive rhythm of an accented second beat, plus sometimes the third, makes it easy to recognize a mazurka whenever you hear one.
Even more male composers are ignored. Performers are not looking at gender of composer, if a music work is talking to you, you will play it because that means you will talk to the audience. Unfortunately, beside those nice harmonic and melodic references to Chopin (almost copy/paste), I don't believe Clara Schumann is deserving more attention that let's say John Field, Alkan, Gottschalk, Henselt, Hummel, Moscheles, Anton Rubinstein, to only quote a few among the hundreds which are now forgotten. Of course, each one should be played, but seeing the percentage of inspired works of each, you will get much fewer representations than for giants like R Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms etc.
Thank you so much for editing every video really good and giving us all these comments and scores. We really appreciate that. I'm amazed with your sight reading🤩
I guess Clara's Soirees Musicales was inspired by her favorite musicians, she has a toccatina (probably inspired by Bach), a ballade, two mazurkas, and a polonaise that explains her fondness for Chopin music. I personally adore Schummans and have a special connection with Clara. I love her compositions and I am trying to introduce her to other classical music listeners. I am genuinely glad that you put her in your repertoire, I would love to see you play her piano concerto and her other magnificent compositions for piano. Thanks, Tiffany. Love you.
At around 7 minutes the piece reminded me of Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündletanze? That phrase is very clear to hear. Wow the two of them really made great music. This is fun to listen to!!! Thanks Tiff!!!!
It is extremely moving when I hear you first play Clara's Op. 6 and then the main theme Robert's Op. 6. Even though I know the C.W. Motto in Davidsbundlertanze, the vivid and delightful voicing in Clara made Schumann's crying extremely moving. Thanks a lot for this video!
I am always happy when you give us the pieces of your future recitals. They are usually new to me and I keep listening to them until become familiar. Recently Davidsbundlertanze became my favourite piece of Schumann! Let's listen now to Clara Schumann now.
Clara Schumann wrote Mazurkas. Thanks for knowing this. And clearly I remembered that @ (your rendition) is the same opus. Well sightread, Ms. Tiffany.
The E major second section in Clara’s G major mazurka, reminds of the opening theme of Chopin’s op 24 #2. I could happily listen to you sightread mazurkas all day!
I grew up on classical music and have listened to it my entire life. Somehow I was never familiar with Clara's Mazurkas? I thank you for sharing these masterpieces with us. I would love to hear you play the opus 6 #5 in it's entirety. I absolutely love it!
Thank you for sharing these discoveries. After the video, I read that it is Robert who quotes this Mazurka theme in the Davidsbundlertanze opening. For no good reason, I had assumed it was Clara quoting Robert. Totally fascinating, thank you. And what a beautiful programme Dresden will hear.
So many wonderful ways of interpreting these classical pieces. I discovered Hiromi only the other day through a TH-cam recommendation and her style of interpretation regards Beethoven is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing these candid moments of your walk through of timid Clara Schumann reflections. God bless
Watching this video while it's snowing outside, wonderfully relaxing break from my book... Absolutely lovely music as well, I love Chopin's mazurka's very much as well, and it's such a shame they don't get programmed more, often just played as encores...
Chopin’s mazurkas have been very special to me since I first heard them. These ones by Clara Schumann are just as lovely as any of Chopin’s, and they are certainly quite different.
Beautiful pieces Tiffany. I'm sooo impressed with Clara's music and yes, now I hear great similarities between her and Robert. Can I ask a favor, early in your video, your comments didn't stay on screen long enough for me to read the longer ones so I kept having to "pause" then "repeat" and then pause again to read what you wrote. I enjoy your comments and I learn from them. Otherwise. I'm loving Clara but have always liked Schumann. Thank you Tiffany. I would love to be able to sight read as wonderfully as you. What a talent.
With Clara Schumann's compositions we can point to Chopin's, but the repertoire they both draw from is the folk dance from the Polish province called Mazur. It is synsopated to the 2nd or 3rd beat. Basically, it is folk music put to dance. Chopin borrowed from the Mazur folk after a couple countryside visits or walks. As it is dance music, the "left hand" should be a constant pulse or beat, no matter how difficult the right hand becomes (as per Chopin's personal opinion) and the right hand has flexibility relative to the left. Dancing people expect metronome precision, except when the musician with them plays a cat and mouse game of accelerando and decelerando (slowing down; aka ritardando or rallentando), but this is always done in a very controlled way that is easily recognized by the dancers, and they'll love it.
One of my favorite composers... would love to hear you play more of her music... for example her drei romance op21 or her piano concerto which is amazing
This is very refreshing! However Clara Schumann proofs not to have any longing to go back to Poland where she spent her childhood. Anyhow, thanks for showing us the greatness of Chopin again!
HI Tiffany! Can you please make a video on how to learn new contemporary pieces (if you have time)? It takes months for me to learn and memorize them...
Clara was a prolific composer: "Clara Shumann ( née ; 13 September 1819 - 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital from displays of virtuosity to programs of serious works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs."
Clara Schumann's compositions are beautiful, I'm glad you're playing her music (And I love Chopin's mazurki. They were very close to his heart (homeland). You should try playing Teresa Carreño's compositions (mostly her waltzes) they are really interesting and beautiful (and pretty virtuosic, as well). She was one of the best pianists (musicians) of her time. Amazing pianist (often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano"), opera singer, composer, conductor, businesswoman (she had her own opera company), and an excellent teacher and mother. Grieg's favorite pianist (he composed many pieces for her, including his piano concerto. They were very good friends). Brahms and other great musicians of her time loved her, and Maestro Claudio Arrau idolized her. Amazing woman. I don't say it just because I have her blood in my veins, she was truly an amazing woman... Interesting video.
More Clara Schumann please! I heard Amir Farid play her 4 Fleeting Pieces Op. 15 and loved them at once. The 1st has instant appeal (and might make a good encore). The 4th doubles as the Scherzo of her sonata.
Question about Clara Schumann and hand size. I learned from a Seymour Bernstein interview about Chopin's hands (Seymour has a casting of Chopin's hands) that the octave on Chopin's piano was about the same size of the 7th on a modern piano. I wonder if that is true of Clara's piano too.
Clara Schumann may have played on narrower keys. I don’t think the key width was standardized in the 19th century. www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/03/01/historische_tasteninstrumente.php
Now I know what I look like when looking at the notes slightly confused/sceptical (4:00) Look puzzled --> squint --> "mh, okay". Maybe everyone does it that way? :D
Hello !!! Clara Schumann is very unknown for many people, it’s interesting to make them discover a such pianist as Clara !
Her piano sonata is excellent and definitely worth checking out.
I typically avoid Mazurkas but I may be won over now. As a pianist whose only real "superpower" with this instrument is decent sight-reading, I'm always in awe at how great your sight-reading is
Use your superpower and have fun browsing through!! 🎶🤗
7:39 So cool to see your reaction as you recognize certain musical phrases that Clara and Robert shared. I'm essentially clueless until you point them out. Same with the Clara - Chopin Mazurka similarities. Your excitement and enthusiasm is fun to see! 😄
Love these practice vlogs! It is so cool seeing other musicians' process and other instruments too:D
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There's all kinds of keyboard music out there. Clara Schumann, John Field, Clementi, CPE Bach, just al kinds of really talented people who don't get their due recognition, so it's nice to hear Clara's Chopin-esque style be played here
Carl Philipp was absolutely amazing!
Watching you sight read really puts things into perspective for me!! I’m sure I speak for all of us watching!!
I once had an 1880 Broadwood straight strung 7 foot grand piano. What a sight to look down the piano and see the long straight strings! The sound board had so many layers of shellac that the wood grain had a three dimensional appearance.😊 I also picked up a floor lamp at goodwill one day. It looked just like the one here. I do not have the lamp or the piano anymore but now I have Tiffany's vlog. 🤔😊
That is great to be introduced to Clara Schumann's piano work. It stood unjustly behind others for a long time. Hopefully your Dresden recitals will be livestreamed 🙏
On a side line, the comparison with Chopin's Mazurkas is great!
i love that you also include information about the composer in your vlogs :) thanks again, this was wonderful to watch and learnt loads
To get a glimpse of your genius through the subtitles is such an honour. Thank you so much for taking the time to edit these.
I didn`t know, that Clara Schumann wrote Mazurkas. So beautiful played! 😍
I love all of Chopin's Mazurkas, but had no idea Clara Schumann wrote any. This is as brilliant as anything she's ever written. Thank you, Tiffany. 😊
Your joy is infectious! Love listening to you play :)
Thank you for all your inspiring practise Vlogs.😘
I try... 🤗🙏
What a joy to hear you play such great music from a composer that I had not heard before. Your sight-reading is extraordinary but not surprising given the dedication, hours of practice, and talent that you have. I am sure you are inspiring many pianists and would-be pianists.
wonderful piece, I'm always amazed how good your sight reading skills are!
So many female composers are ignored who shouldn't be. For mazurkas, besides an enchanting melody, the distinctive rhythm of an accented second beat, plus sometimes the third, makes it easy to recognize a mazurka whenever you hear one.
Even more male composers are ignored. Performers are not looking at gender of composer, if a music work is talking to you, you will play it because that means you will talk to the audience.
Unfortunately, beside those nice harmonic and melodic references to Chopin (almost copy/paste), I don't believe Clara Schumann is deserving more attention that let's say John Field, Alkan, Gottschalk, Henselt, Hummel, Moscheles, Anton Rubinstein, to only quote a few among the hundreds which are now forgotten.
Of course, each one should be played, but seeing the percentage of inspired works of each, you will get much fewer representations than for giants like R Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms etc.
Thank you so much for editing every video really good and giving us all these comments and scores. We really appreciate that. I'm amazed with your sight reading🤩
new perfect motivation for me to practice today🔥🎹🎶❤
Love u Tiffany! Thank you🇨🇦🤗❤
Awww thank you for the heart!! Made my day!! Sending my love and hugs and kisses! Always take care muwah muwah!!😘😘😘🥰🥰🎹🎹🔥🔥🎶🎶❤❤❤😁😁🤗🤗🤗
She is well known in Germany. I always feel close to Robert Schumann. He suffered so much
thank you for sharing these pieces!! it's nice to discover pieces that are quite unfamiliar, at least to me!
I guess Clara's Soirees Musicales was inspired by her favorite musicians, she has a toccatina (probably inspired by Bach), a ballade, two mazurkas, and a polonaise that explains her fondness for Chopin music. I personally adore Schummans and have a special connection with Clara. I love her compositions and I am trying to introduce her to other classical music listeners. I am genuinely glad that you put her in your repertoire, I would love to see you play her piano concerto and her other magnificent compositions for piano. Thanks, Tiffany. Love you.
At around 7 minutes the piece reminded me of Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündletanze? That phrase is very clear to hear. Wow the two of them really made great music. This is fun to listen to!!! Thanks Tiff!!!!
the way your piano makes the low d ring at around 8:57 😍 the way you read the mazurka in g was marvelous 🙏
A new Tiffany video in my feed. It's going to be a great day!
Have a nice day 😊
So much fun ! Thanks for this beautfull overview !
you're so inspiring, i can't wait to watch this✨💫
A new thing to study from your videos! Thank you for making these high-quality videos for us! Hope you have a great days!
So fun to recognise the same Mazurkas as you while playing. I played a handful of them, and they are such gems
It is extremely moving when I hear you first play Clara's Op. 6 and then the main theme Robert's Op. 6. Even though I know the C.W. Motto in Davidsbundlertanze, the vivid and delightful voicing in Clara made Schumann's crying extremely moving. Thanks a lot for this video!
BTW if you have merchandise that is selling the cup with the circle of fifth and the key signatures. I will promise you to buy one!
It really remember chopin and is so beatiful!! Thanks for playing that😍 (i'm brazilian so my english is not good)
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O yess a new video 😍 Thank You Tiffany ❤️
Thank *you for watching 🤗
I am always happy when you give us the pieces of your future recitals. They are usually new to me and I keep listening to them until become familiar. Recently Davidsbundlertanze became my favourite piece of Schumann! Let's listen now to Clara Schumann now.
Beautiful playing, Tiffany!
I really love it to see you playing the piano!!! You motivate me every time.
I learn so much from this concert pianist. Thanks!
thank you for giving me an insight how to study and play these pieces of Chopin. A professional as you are.
Ooooh I've been waiting for this one 🙂🙂
Wow I’ve learned about so many new pieces watching your channel these days!
Your enthusiasm for discovering connections between these great composers is touching. It has inspired me to search for myself :) thank you
So wonderful to watch you play my favorite composers & such beautiful music!
Love those snippets of your thoughts thru out the video 👏👏👏
Lovely Mazurkas, I love her sonata as well :)
Clara Schumann wrote Mazurkas. Thanks for knowing this.
And clearly I remembered that @ (your rendition) is the same opus.
Well sightread, Ms. Tiffany.
Ahh such a beautiful music... 💕
The E major second section in Clara’s G major mazurka, reminds of the opening theme of Chopin’s op 24 #2.
I could happily listen to you sightread mazurkas all day!
thanks for the lesson. love art history.
So much love in this channel!
My promblem with these pieces is that I can't get enough of them.
I grew up on classical music and have listened to it my entire life. Somehow I was never familiar with Clara's Mazurkas? I thank you for sharing these masterpieces with us. I would love to hear you play the opus 6 #5 in it's entirety. I absolutely love it!
Great job 🎹👏😘
I LOVE YOUR MUSIC
This was a very interesting video. I liked seeing your thought processes. I think Clara Schumann deserves to be played more often.
Thank you for sharing these discoveries. After the video, I read that it is Robert who quotes this Mazurka theme in the Davidsbundlertanze opening. For no good reason, I had assumed it was Clara quoting Robert. Totally fascinating, thank you. And what a beautiful programme Dresden will hear.
Another vlog so fast! Didn't see it coming this time, but it's more inspiration either way so awesome! Keep it up! (Day 18)
Have been singing a lot of her pieces, have always loved her music. These piano pieces are so beautiful too🥰😍❤️love from sweden☺️☺️
So many wonderful ways of interpreting these classical pieces. I discovered Hiromi only the other day through a TH-cam recommendation and her style of interpretation regards Beethoven is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing these candid moments of your walk through of timid Clara Schumann reflections. God bless
You are amazing Tiffany!
Your enthusiasm is so amazing!:)
Love this videos!! Keep them coming!! 😁😁
Tiffany
I love you!
Keep up and I hope you the best wishes.
Beautiful !!!
Love your videos!!! Great job however, thank you so much 😊😊😍
Very interesting! Thank you 😍❤️
This is so lovely!!
Oh Clara Schumann is the best! I played the piano part in some of her romances.
Watching this video while it's snowing outside, wonderfully relaxing break from my book... Absolutely lovely music as well, I love Chopin's mazurka's very much as well, and it's such a shame they don't get programmed more, often just played as encores...
No dislikes for Clara Schumann! Yay!
Chopin’s mazurkas have been very special to me since I first heard them. These ones by Clara Schumann are just as lovely as any of Chopin’s, and they are certainly quite different.
Beautiful pieces Tiffany. I'm sooo impressed with Clara's music and yes, now I hear great similarities between her and Robert. Can I ask a favor, early in your video, your comments didn't stay on screen long enough for me to read the longer ones so I kept having to "pause" then "repeat" and then pause again to read what you wrote. I enjoy your comments and I learn from them. Otherwise. I'm loving Clara but have always liked Schumann. Thank you Tiffany. I would love to be able to sight read as wonderfully as you. What a talent.
Very calming
Very interesting! I don't believe I ever heard Clara Schumann's mazurkas before. Very nice!
With Clara Schumann's compositions we can point to Chopin's, but the repertoire they both draw from is the folk dance from the Polish province called Mazur. It is synsopated to the 2nd or 3rd beat. Basically, it is folk music put to dance. Chopin borrowed from the Mazur folk after a couple countryside visits or walks. As it is dance music, the "left hand" should be a constant pulse or beat, no matter how difficult the right hand becomes (as per Chopin's personal opinion) and the right hand has flexibility relative to the left.
Dancing people expect metronome precision, except when the musician with them plays a cat and mouse game of accelerando and decelerando (slowing down; aka ritardando or rallentando), but this is always done in a very controlled way that is easily recognized by the dancers, and they'll love it.
One of my favorite composers... would love to hear you play more of her music... for example her drei romance op21 or her piano concerto which is amazing
Clara's Mazurkas are so beautiful!!!
Thanks for this. Delghtful.
This is very refreshing! However Clara Schumann proofs not to have any longing to go back to Poland where she spent her childhood. Anyhow, thanks for showing us the greatness of Chopin again!
The first mazurka (no. 3) reminds me a bit of the beginning of chopin's nocturne op. 15 no. 2
Thank you.
Absolutely gorgeous. I want to try a mazurka now
Go try it! 😊
HI Tiffany! Can you please make a video on how to learn new contemporary pieces (if you have time)? It takes months for me to learn and memorize them...
It took me months, too 😅🙈
i love this
Tiffany can u post a vid about teaching a piece which u play and how to play ??
Classical music is really underrated
I really don't understand Mazurkas at all when I've tried playing them. You do so well just sight reading them!
Comme Clara te ressemble. You should include more pieces of her in your repertoire.
Clara was a prolific composer: "Clara Shumann ( née ; 13 September 1819 - 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital from displays of virtuosity to programs of serious works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto (her Op. 7), chamber music, choral pieces, and songs."
Clara Schumann's compositions are beautiful, I'm glad you're playing her music (And I love Chopin's mazurki. They were very close to his heart (homeland). You should try playing Teresa Carreño's compositions (mostly her waltzes) they are really interesting and beautiful (and pretty virtuosic, as well). She was one of the best pianists (musicians) of her time. Amazing pianist (often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano"), opera singer, composer, conductor, businesswoman (she had her own opera company), and an excellent teacher and mother. Grieg's favorite pianist (he composed many pieces for her, including his piano concerto. They were very good friends). Brahms and other great musicians of her time loved her, and Maestro Claudio Arrau idolized her. Amazing woman. I don't say it just because I have her blood in my veins, she was truly an amazing woman... Interesting video.
More Clara Schumann please! I heard Amir Farid play her 4 Fleeting Pieces Op. 15 and loved them at once. The 1st has instant appeal (and might make a good encore). The 4th doubles as the Scherzo of her sonata.
Question about Clara Schumann and hand size. I learned from a Seymour Bernstein interview about Chopin's hands (Seymour has a casting of Chopin's hands) that the octave on Chopin's piano was about the same size of the 7th on a modern piano. I wonder if that is true of Clara's piano too.
:) very cool
Haven't watched the video yet, but I bet it'll be great.
You were correct!
ABC Classics in Australia love to play Clara.
Clara Schumann may have played on narrower keys. I don’t think the key width was standardized in the 19th century.
www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/03/01/historische_tasteninstrumente.php
oh! interesting, thanks for sharing!
Now I know what I look like when looking at the notes slightly confused/sceptical (4:00) Look puzzled --> squint --> "mh, okay". Maybe everyone does it that way? :D
TP if your camera has manual focus, just use that for these sessions
Now I begin to appreciate Clara schumann
Thank you. I feel a number of Chopin's pieces are touched by the divine. It might be me being a bit cosmic, who knows?
Clara Schumann was an excellent composer.
Does anyone know what the piece is in the outro? It sounds so good!
Wow wow wow wow tour sighreading ufffffff . .