Schubert's achingly beautiful melody

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  • @davidmfoxe
    @davidmfoxe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +604

    Ebb and flow

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Underrated comment

    • @mymatemartin
      @mymatemartin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      ​@@skylarlimex
      Yes, it did fall rather flat.

    • @MikehMike01
      @MikehMike01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      this video was really boring

    • @walturwhit
      @walturwhit 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@MikehMike01 no one asked

    • @andytinganyang4706
      @andytinganyang4706 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@MikehMike01you’ll get it

  • @StoneChords
    @StoneChords 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1713

    My father (doctor by profession) taught himself to play this , and was quite good. He taught it to me when I was a young man. He wooed my stepmother with it in their courtship days. 40 years later, I played it during his long decline in health, and finally, on his piano at home during home hospice, when he could no longer communicate, but would conduct his fingers as I played. And then I played it as his funeral. When he was alive, and could still communicate, this would be the piece that could bring him into sharpest emotional focus (he would weep throughout, and tell me afterward it's impossible not to, because it's so F-ing gorgeous). This perfect composition has touched the lives of millions; this is how it touched my family and me.

    • @Fire-jk8ye
      @Fire-jk8ye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      What a wonderful day to be able to read, thank you for sharing

    • @luigipirandello5919
      @luigipirandello5919 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Beautiful words. Thank you.

    • @analogman9697
      @analogman9697 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      We should all be as fortunate as you to have that close a bond with our Dads.

    • @Beth-yb2kv
      @Beth-yb2kv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      What a beautiful story. And such lovely music. I’m sorry for the loss of your beloved father.

    • @e.conboy4286
      @e.conboy4286 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You must

  • @josephhenry4725
    @josephhenry4725 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    It is just beautiful.

  • @TheRealJoseramirez
    @TheRealJoseramirez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +264

    One of my favourite composers. And died at 31 years of age. We can only wonder at what he would have achieved had he lived another 20 years.

    • @spanishpeaches2930
      @spanishpeaches2930 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If hadn't been shagging around..and caught syphillis...he'd have bewn around a lot longer.

    • @sandrapaton3787
      @sandrapaton3787 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Apparently God took him because he had already done his Best!

    • @blazingchris5048
      @blazingchris5048 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@sandrapaton3787Well, I'm not sure about God. Franz had syphilis and died of thyphoïd fever...

    • @sandrapaton3787
      @sandrapaton3787 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@blazingchris5048 oops! Quite right God didn’t have a hand in that mess!

    • @commontater8630
      @commontater8630 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@sandrapaton3787 You're being ironic, I hope.

  • @andrewmildinhall8210
    @andrewmildinhall8210 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Schubert is the only composer who frequently reduces me to tears. There is often so much pain but joy as as well of course. Which is how life is and perhaps that's the point. More than any other composer Schubert' s music is essentially about the human condition. Its brutally honest and therein lies it's greatness.

    • @terencemeikle534
      @terencemeikle534 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That slow movement of the String Quintet, in particular. It has a similar effect upon me to the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's second concerto. They reduce me to a wreck. I can cry simply by hearing them in my head.

    • @alanrobertson9790
      @alanrobertson9790 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its odd Schubert is a great composer but never affected me much. Taste is strange, my loss not yours.

    • @timbaker4253
      @timbaker4253 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beethoven - hold my beer

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Baroque composers are just as good if not better - some of Handel's arias whether in his Italian operas or English oratorios are so incredibly moving - 3 examples I can bring to mind being from" Rodelinda" with the aria" Dove sei amato bene" -which means "Where art thou my beloved." especially the version sung by Andreas Scholl. Then there is "Verdi allori" from "Orlando" (Green laurels" when the protagonist realizes he will never see his beloved again and he remembers the time when they carved the love heart on the trunk of the laurel tree and supremely many arias and duets in "Theodora" - When this work was performed at Glyndebourne the emotions in the audience were so great that ambulances were on stand by to take people to hospital!

    • @johnradovich8809
      @johnradovich8809 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@alanrobertson9790that’s what makes a horserace. I love Schubert, you don’t and that’s fine. The composer I don’t get at all is Schumann.

  • @JIM-ot4ws
    @JIM-ot4ws 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    One of the most exquisite bitter-sweet pieces ever, I used to play it many years ago. It is one of those pieces that just grabs you!

    • @parrotlover9035
      @parrotlover9035 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I couldn't agree more. The tears flow every time.

  • @amadeus5889
    @amadeus5889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

    This will forever be one of my favorite piano pieces. If there’s an afterlife, this is what it sounds like to glimpse it.

    • @analogman9697
      @analogman9697 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      There is a Heaven, and the music there will make this sound like a squeaky wheel.

    • @amadeus5889
      @amadeus5889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@analogman9697 I don’t personally believe that, but if you do, I’m happy for you.

    • @MsDormy
      @MsDormy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believe in heaven, and am happy to believe that this impromptu is a glimpse …. God bless Schubert.

    • @user-sg4ov7ng4h
      @user-sg4ov7ng4h 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@analogman9697why are we trashing good musicians tho and comparing it to smth youve never heard yet

    • @valerietaylor9615
      @valerietaylor9615 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If there is a Heaven, I hope I’ll be able to meet all the great composers and hear them play their own music, as it sounded originally. 🎼

  • @TeslasMoustache419
    @TeslasMoustache419 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +298

    That Ebb note is magical.

    • @MrAzureJames
      @MrAzureJames 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what would it be microtonally?

    • @DavM310
      @DavM310 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      It's not microtonal

    • @aldeayeah
      @aldeayeah 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MrAzureJames E𝄳𝄳𝄳𝄳

    • @felixclm
      @felixclm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MrAzureJamesno, just 2 half steps from E (D)

    • @MrAzureJames
      @MrAzureJames 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@felixclm if it were on an antique microtonal organ it would just be D?

  • @jimcoughlin4057
    @jimcoughlin4057 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I discovered this piece too late in life, I have played it now for years but it never ceases to grip my soul and bring me to tears. It is simple, yet requires such skill!

    • @byteme0000
      @byteme0000 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, it requires great skill because this simple, hauntingly beautiful piece was composed in a stupid key. Gb… really?! To what end? Just to make it difficult. There’s no reason for it.

  • @ArmyOfDarkKitten
    @ArmyOfDarkKitten 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    The two sets of impromptues written by Schubert are in my opinion the most beautiful piano work ever created.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      It's even more incredible on some accounts on how fast he wrote them! I read somewhere that he'd written this particular one in a day!

    • @gmnotyet
      @gmnotyet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@skylarlimex OMG

    • @cblse
      @cblse 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Is music created.... or discovered?

    • @user-sg4ov7ng4h
      @user-sg4ov7ng4h 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@cblseis that a philosophical question? whats your answer?

    • @cblse
      @cblse 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@user-sg4ov7ng4h I suppose it is a philosophical question. I don't have a ready answer just an intuitive leaning. It seems to me that beauty exists in the world and geniuses reveal it to us.

  • @LukeFaulkner
    @LukeFaulkner 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In Horowitz's hands every note and harmony makes sense. True mastery!

  • @mustafaweewees
    @mustafaweewees 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Beautiful ... I can hear strains from Schubert's own ' Ave Maria '

  • @greghill7759
    @greghill7759 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    As a twelve-year old, my first introduction to Schubert was "The Trout". I found it so dull and stilted that I never bothered to listen to another piece from him. Years later, his "Impromptu" shocked me with its sensitivity, and I then went on to discover his "Serenade", which in my opinion is one of the most elegant, soulful, and erotic compositions ever written.

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I loved the ""Trout" when I heard it at around the same age. I often wonder why we have certain reactions hardwired into us at a young age.

    • @greghill7759
      @greghill7759 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@GreenTeaViewer Well, whenever I hear "The Trout", I want to run away, so it may possibly be part of our individual survival instincts!

    • @valerietaylor9615
      @valerietaylor9615 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I first heard “ The Trout” ( “ Die Forelle”, in German) when I was seventeen, and loved it. I love all of Schubert’s songs, but one of my favorites is “An Die Musik” ( “To Music”). In that song, the singer thanks the art of music for transporting him/her to a better world ( the words are by Schubert’s friend, Franz von Schober.) I also adore the song cycle, “Die Schöne Müllerin“ ( „The Miller‘s Beautiful Daughter.“)

    • @julianbrelsford
      @julianbrelsford 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There are a lot of reasons why a kid might love or hate "the trout" or any other piece of music, but the context in which it is performed and the quality of performance are pretty darn important.

    • @joeballog6566
      @joeballog6566 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The Trout is such a lovely, joyous piece of music. And so unhurried. When he gets to the end, he does the whole thing again, note for note, in a different key! It's like floating down the river in a punt on a relaxing afternoon. You are really selling it short by allowing your 12-year-old self to have the final word on it.

  • @KarlRKaiser
    @KarlRKaiser 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Chopin's first Etude in Op.25, in a-flat, also starts with a repeated "so", first five times, followed by "la" and then "so" five more times. It is also accompanied by an undulating left-hand line to create motion under the stillness.

  • @cherijaniczek9517
    @cherijaniczek9517 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Oh my goodness, how incredibly beautiful!!!

  • @luuktorn
    @luuktorn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    One of my favourite pieces by Schubert. It's so beautiful ❤️

  • @feraudyh
    @feraudyh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I remember a concert at a friend's place where this was played. Some people cried .

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Schubert is so awesome

  • @nicolasgoosen5142
    @nicolasgoosen5142 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I've never had such a good music appreciation lesson - thank you!

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ahh that's very kind of you! Thanks for the comment

  • @parrotlover9035
    @parrotlover9035 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    The first time I heard this Impromptu, its beauty hooked me for life. I especially love Horowitz's interpretation.

  • @Capochin950
    @Capochin950 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Schubert was a creative genius.Not of this world but from a heavenly place.

  • @GraceS-s3j
    @GraceS-s3j 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I first heard this around 5 years ago when I watched Michael haneke’s film Amour and it has truly stuck with me since. I think it is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written… thank you for your video.

  • @Jean-rg4sp
    @Jean-rg4sp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I never studied music so I have no understanding of all the writing but I can appreciate the melody on this piano and I wished to hear more.

    • @jasoncoleman3611
      @jasoncoleman3611 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I learned a few instruments. Piano was my first. It's it a very advanced key and the Melodie is so subtle it is the equivalent of triple purified water. Pure perfection and beauty. My guess is only older souls could interpret this piece properly.

    • @commontater8630
      @commontater8630 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This piece is from Schubert's Opus 90, a set of four impromptus. That set was followed by another set of four, Opus 142 (D. 899 and D. 935 respectively). Look them up, you won't be sorry.

  • @freeguy77
    @freeguy77 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    His Great Symphony #9 was my favorite, and first heard it in Music Appreciation class, along with many other composers' best classical pieces. Beethoven's 7th is another of my favorite symphonic pieces!

  • @ellybargmusic
    @ellybargmusic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I haven't heard this piece before but this really is stunning! I feel like Schubert is so underrated and it's always great to find new pieces that are pretty but reasonably simple to play. Thanks for sharing this gem ♥

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Schubert is grossly underrated really...

    • @vibey8558
      @vibey8558 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@skylarlimex agreed! Had Schubert lived longer, I reckon he might have reached the likes of Mozart and Beethoven

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@vibey8558 I think he might have even surpassed them considering what he had already achieved by such a young age

    • @castheeuwes1085
      @castheeuwes1085 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@skylarlimex Yep. At their ends, Beethoven was on a dead end, and Mozart was pretty much finished, same Bach. Schubert was still rolling!

    • @daftheck1439
      @daftheck1439 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i want to forget this piece just to discover it again you lucky 😁

  • @pauldrapiewski6761
    @pauldrapiewski6761 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    There is other composer in the history of music who created so much music, of the most astounding quality, at such an early age. He died at 32! Most composers, if they had died at that point, even Beethoven, would not be nearly so famous.
    Just imagine if he had lived decades more. Perhaps he would have been declared the greatest of all time. Interesting that the three great composers who died at a very early age Schubert, Chopin and Mozart, are also the ones who had a body of work worthy of a very long lifetime.
    This Impromptu always brings tears to my eyes Is there anything more beautiful?

    • @eyuin5716
      @eyuin5716 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was actually only 31 when he died.

    • @taniacummings9207
      @taniacummings9207 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@eyuin5716Then he had lived 32 years.

    • @eyuin5716
      @eyuin5716 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@taniacummings9207 He lived from 1797 - 1828. Did you flunk out of basic math?

    • @janiidekock
      @janiidekock 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      add the months from birth to death and you will probably then discover he lived more than 31 years .. which I think is what the '32' was alluding to. 😊

  • @MrPienaarza
    @MrPienaarza 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Soothing for the soul, thank you!

  • @Max-du9oj
    @Max-du9oj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s incredible because on TH-cam videos I’ve seen, nobody seems to realize that Horowitz, who’s the interpret here, does a stunning re-harmonization of the original score at 0:23 🔥

  • @graemeloyer
    @graemeloyer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Virtually everything that Schubert composed was perfection. Shame we don't have composers like this today.

  • @secrets7301
    @secrets7301 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I adore this piece, especially this interpretation by Horowitz. It's heart breaking.

  • @stillnessflowing9480
    @stillnessflowing9480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Schubert's Impromptus are all beautiful. No 2 has a section with triplets where the first note of each triplet forms the most beautiful melody inside a beautiful melody of triplets. They're all quite subtle, and complex compositions.

  • @lionelalberts2650
    @lionelalberts2650 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Such a sad beautiful serene melody.

  • @jackrainbow560
    @jackrainbow560 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I share your re-experiencing again when older. If ONLY I knew then what I know now! As a kid at school I could never get Picasso. Now I mourn his passing with the full realisation of his gift to humanity.

  • @pjesf
    @pjesf 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This man’s music was a gift to the world ❤

  • @danutahull9319
    @danutahull9319 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A beautiful brilliant Schubert composition ⭐️

  • @justusmache8814
    @justusmache8814 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Such a lovely piece! I always feel that the second phrase starting bar 9 is picked up by Schumann in "Dichterliebe"s first song "Im wunderschlnen Monat Mai" where this phrase is combined with the text "Da ist in meinem Herzenen, die iebe aufgegangen / In my heart, love has risen". Which for me also perfectly matches the feel I get when hearing this phrase in the Schubert impromptu!

    • @mateojames3231
      @mateojames3231 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I sung Im wunderschonen. I didn’t realize that until you pointed it out. Im wunderschonen was an emotional roller coaster of a piece for my Senior Recital. The use of the dominant never finding a resolution. Beautiful.

    • @cjams115
      @cjams115 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I came here to comment the same thing

  • @sammyr713
    @sammyr713 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I started playing this piece as the flawless recordings make it sound relatively easy and 'flowy'. Imagine my shock when I realised how difficult it actually was to retain the melody notes and make them stand out.

  • @morphicmusic
    @morphicmusic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you for making this! I enjoy this kind of content!

  • @albertperson4013
    @albertperson4013 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love Schubert for his ability to mimic other very famous composers yet compose original themes.

  • @SMtWalkerS
    @SMtWalkerS 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I know nothing about classical music. I find this enchanting.

    • @stillbill6408
      @stillbill6408 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Welcome to the most beautiful of all music; a wonderful adventure awaits you. Embrace it.

    • @Kodexj
      @Kodexj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You dont have to know anything, just enjoy it. Honestly the only thing stopping people from loving all genres is preconceptio s

    • @pegasus5287
      @pegasus5287 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Listen to clair de lune

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The famous Russian composer Rachmaninov very accurately said - “ Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music”. Couldn’t agree more.

    • @deedeewinchur
      @deedeewinchur 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you find this enchanting you know just enough ✨☺️

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent analysis...beautiful music written on paper brought to life!

  • @johntyjp
    @johntyjp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have Schubert s Unfinished on a set of 78s, conducted by Sir Henry Wood that I still love to play! I must get them transferred to a DVD🧐

    • @alanrobertson9790
      @alanrobertson9790 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had over hundred LPs and bought a player to transcribe them into wav files but too late most of the LPs already warped beyond repair. 78s with the hard and heavy Bakelite should fair better. Got everything on CDs and copied onto hard drives now. Still people do get attached to the version they first heard.

  • @barcarolleenjoyer
    @barcarolleenjoyer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Also: note that Horowitz modifies the score at 0:22, instead of going directly from I-vi, he goes I-V7-vi (V7 is dominant seventh, idk music theory well enough to know what the correct term for it is)

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Interesting because I didn't hear that in other interpretations

    • @gahlol7069
      @gahlol7069 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yup I suspect it’s a Horowitz thing but a very good addition to this repeated phrase where it continues to the vi.

    • @barcarolleenjoyer
      @barcarolleenjoyer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@skylarlimex yeah Horowitz loves playing with the score and making his improvements

    • @jamesandrewes9640
      @jamesandrewes9640 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      The modification comes originally from Liszt, who edited Schubert's Impromptus in the late 1860s, in an edition published by Cotta. In addition to this harmonic change, Liszt - more significantly - develops the return to the A section by putting it up the octave, with rolling arpeggios in the left hand. Horowitz is not playing the Liszt version, but he must have liked that small harmonic change enough to add it into his own performance of Schubert's original.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@jamesandrewes9640 thanks for that very interesting side note! I definitely wouldn't have known that

  • @johnrobinsoniii4028
    @johnrobinsoniii4028 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This Piano masterpiece has lots of emotional involvement.

  • @xenopis7862
    @xenopis7862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This piece is currently in my repertoire, and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful piano pieces I have ever heard. And, surprisingly challenging in some ways. My piano is terrible at the moment so the voicing is quite difficult to achieve at the moment but still, whenever I get to play this piece on my teachers piano, it is an absolute treat.

  • @cyruschang9430
    @cyruschang9430 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Amazing piece! Btw it kinda reminds me of Liebestraum no.3

  • @jamesshanahan7867
    @jamesshanahan7867 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    awesome--would love to see more videos like this,. Very nice work.

  • @malicant123
    @malicant123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is instantly calming.

  • @sharonevelynmclaren6274
    @sharonevelynmclaren6274 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful piece from long ago. ❤❤❤

  • @hermeticinstrumentalist6804
    @hermeticinstrumentalist6804 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very pretty.
    Thank you.

  • @musicsdarkangel
    @musicsdarkangel วันที่ผ่านมา

    Horowitz.... how does he do it... amazing color, phrasing, tone, space, everything.

  • @JediMaestr0
    @JediMaestr0 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I played this one just a couple days ago! This one and the E flat impromptu are both super pretty and fun to play.

  • @jospenner9503
    @jospenner9503 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful analysis. I would enjoy a full performance, bitte.

  • @thorstambaugh1520
    @thorstambaugh1520 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To tease the resolution so masterfully

  • @ejvindgeckler4951
    @ejvindgeckler4951 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very beautifully played. Thank you.

  • @MiScusi69
    @MiScusi69 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That little improvisation at 0:21 is AWESOME I ADORE IT

  • @jean-pierredevent970
    @jean-pierredevent970 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was forgotten before hearing this that a piano can be played so soft and delicate. I perhaps heard such a playing only a few time but this is exceptional. It must be the piano ;-)

  • @Robyn-x8m
    @Robyn-x8m 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's beautiful...I heard it quite a while back but didn't make a note of the title...Thanks

  • @brucejackson4219
    @brucejackson4219 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A sublime composition.

  • @Kiran_Nath
    @Kiran_Nath 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Horowitz uses a very interesting variation in measure 5 at 0:22 which is not indicated by the sheet music that you used for this video. Instead of playing the usual notes (Gb/Db in left, and Bb/Db/Gb/Bb in right) he switches to a B-flat dominant seventh chord (F/D in left, and Bb/D/Ab/Bb). A few believe that this variation that Horowitz included was from a special arrangement of the piece by Liszt which transposed it from G-flat, to G.

    • @pascalcs
      @pascalcs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It written as Horowitz plays it in Edition Peters produced by Walter Neimann.

  • @Sherrycheff
    @Sherrycheff 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely beautiful! I look forward to learning how to play this piece!

  • @gsm2424
    @gsm2424 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn't know this piece. Thank you, it is beautiful beyond words...

  • @krisjustin3884
    @krisjustin3884 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Genius! Incredible melodic progression! 😯

  • @anled.composition
    @anled.composition 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great analysis again, well done !

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks as always!

  • @patriciap6519
    @patriciap6519 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SCHUBERT WROTE MUSIC FROM HIS HEART AND SOUL. Every one of these Impromptus have a special place in mine.

  • @shailen824
    @shailen824 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oh! This video is wonderful thank you so much. It's one of my favorites to play. I think my favorite note in this section is the C natural in the measure at 1:37.

  • @loveonly000
    @loveonly000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Only a beautiful mind can create such beauty ❤

  • @horationelson57
    @horationelson57 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Achingly beautiful. Indeed. And a wonderful tonic, a refuge for only a few, gentle souls who care to take the time to listen

  • @Zerpentsa6598
    @Zerpentsa6598 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes. One of my favourite piano pieces.

  • @johnb3289
    @johnb3289 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your wonderful analysis. Sing several of his lieder, and mourn the shortness of his life.

  • @josephdunlap6747
    @josephdunlap6747 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Melodically beautiful! Bravo! 🙏🙏❤️

  • @extanegautham8950
    @extanegautham8950 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i saw ur title and immediately thought, no, said out loud, "which one!..." great analysis

  • @margarethansen7480
    @margarethansen7480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great analysis!! Thanks❤👏👏

  • @herambaanjaneya2041
    @herambaanjaneya2041 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lovely! Absolutely lovely!❤

  • @markneedham752
    @markneedham752 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I saw a Professor explain why a certain person, their personality denied them, from ever finding a partner. A million words to say, "the person is not nice." Now, Mr. Schubert..."That was beautiful."

  • @jan861
    @jan861 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Schubert made the most beautiful melodies, for me.

  • @marieclaude5360
    @marieclaude5360 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Très belle interprétation, toute en nuance, toute en retenue. Merci !

  • @ankavoskuilen1725
    @ankavoskuilen1725 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice way to explain the music!
    Thank you very much!

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for watching!

  • @caesarsen5944
    @caesarsen5944 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks. I have compiled my own requeim to be played on my last journey, along with this piece there are other pieces, e. g. Saint Saens "Dying Swan" and Brahms's 1st movement of "A German Requeim" and some other Baroque pieces by Albinoni et al.

  • @tiesergrote
    @tiesergrote 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful piece. At 0:24 we hear a different bass note and harmoniy than the written one, I think it's the 3rd of V/vi.

  • @charlessomerset9754
    @charlessomerset9754 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wouldnt go so far as to say achingly. Barber's Adagio is achingly beautiful. This is more like pleasantly pretty.

  • @gahlol7069
    @gahlol7069 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You should cover the no. 1 of this op 90 too. It’s magical and emotional. A big adventure

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Definitely one of my favourites!

  • @simonragnarson22
    @simonragnarson22 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That c-flat is utterly divine

  • @petergraham8681
    @petergraham8681 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here is my ultimate desert island piano piece. Lieder-like in it’s memorable melody. The one recording that affects me most can be found on the final Dinu Lipatti recital recorded a couple of months before he passed away. Schubert outdid himself, IMO, in this inspired moment & it is perfection itself & not surprising at all considering his background in song composition.

  • @LeonoraBassisty104
    @LeonoraBassisty104 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't know why but Keys with over 4 Flats tend to sound very Ethereal to me (I have perfect pitch). Keys have such a distinctive feeling to my ears, which makes transposing a source of significant change in character.
    Even if a piece doesn't portray a particular feeling to me, the Key will. For instance, "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" from the Gondoliers. It's a simple operetta song yet, due to being in Eb Major it feels like something different than that.
    This Schubert's piece is very impactful in its own way, but the fact it is in Eb Major really spices things up.
    I am curious if other people have the same approach regarding keys as me, and if you do, please tell me which keys to you prefer (here are mines)
    F Minor
    F# Minor
    D Minor
    Eb Major
    Db Major
    Eb Major

  • @scronx
    @scronx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sensitive playing.

  • @mortonbaychestnut4072
    @mortonbaychestnut4072 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks so much!

  • @celiagoldstein1806
    @celiagoldstein1806 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    fun fact i have sobbed to this song

  • @eoarwyn
    @eoarwyn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved this so much as a student I had to write lyrics to it ❤️ So charming yet bittersweet

  • @nseim27
    @nseim27 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just played this last year! A wonderful piece, a ton of fun to learn and play. I didn't do much in-depth analysis of the theory though; this would've helped me a bit with my interpretation lol. Regardless, it's one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever played.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can try playing it again and see how much it changes!

  • @wawerua96
    @wawerua96 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This piece is pure bliss!

  • @sarahk.7302
    @sarahk.7302 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My favorite Schubert piece is ‘Fantasie in F Minor’ for two hands piano💛

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A classic!

    • @carryfreak5059
      @carryfreak5059 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have played that one

  • @dennysmith7862
    @dennysmith7862 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Arlna Hartshorne introduced me to Classical music... A group of us would pay R2.50 each (or less) to listen to full Cape Town Philharmonic orchestra on a Sunday evening at Cape Town City Hall...
    She once played a solo Wagnerian operetta for a week and advising not to attend as Wagner was depressing...
    Hope wherever she is she's doing well...

  • @jaypeej7830
    @jaypeej7830 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This Impromptu is probably Mendelssohn's inspiration for "Songs Without Words"

  • @dktv-musicbykasperbruunkri8663
    @dktv-musicbykasperbruunkri8663 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    my favourite piece to play. love it so much!

  • @chrysanthos7265
    @chrysanthos7265 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:32 The Ebb note makes the half-diminished vii into a diminished seventh chord :)

  • @sashawright1734
    @sashawright1734 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this piece is on my playlist wow

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This incredibly moving piece occurs in that movie starring Maggie Smith and the writer Bennett about the crazy lady who lived in a van in Bennet's front yard (True story) She had trained as a classical pianist but went on the run when she accidentally killed a motorcyclist while driving her car.

  • @Hjominbonrun
    @Hjominbonrun 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like the Schnabel interpretation of this.
    It doesn't have to be played slowly to be beautiful.

  • @ireneyoung8696
    @ireneyoung8696 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful.