I hope you enjoyed this little journey through Chopin's life and work! You will find each piece played in this video on Apple Music Classical - get your two month free trial here: apple.co/Classical2
@heartofthekeys Poland did not exist during Chopin's lifetime at all. It was invaded and partitioned between Russian Empire (Warsaw), Prussian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1772. He did not return to Poland because Poland did not exist and he was on exile. This is because he refused to perform for the Russian emperor. Poland regained independence in the aftermath of the end of the First World War in 1918. Between 1772 and 1918 we had no country. One of the fathers of newly regained Polish independence in 1918 was another great Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Hid friendship with US president help negotiate our freedom. Chopin helped preserve our culture and identity which was particularly important when we were technically Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungarian colony
It was brilliant to talk about the colors in the context of Chopin’s work and matching the colors of your dress and time of the day to the story you are narrating and the music you are playing. This video clearly shows how much work and attention to detail you put into it; it is truly impressive!
if you don't mind, I am going to share this in my facebook account, so that more people know the history behind Chopin's music :) thank you, again, for your videos
Wow! The G min ballad was fantastic! Brought back memories to me, grew up listening to Chopin. My god-brother was a classical pianist and I would lie under his baby grand and be taken to another world with this beautiful music 🎶 Thank you for these lovely pieces of Chopin. Have your CD and hope to hear more. 👏 - Michael G. in Texas, USA
I sincerely didn't think a new Chopin's Evolution video was necessary, but I was wrong ! What an outstanding work as always, top quality content.. Magnifique video Annique !
I just love Chopin and he has so many underated works like his first sonata.sometimes it’s so sad to see composers with like 100op and no one remembers them but I’m so glad Chopin is still very well known I couldn’t imagine my piano journey without him
I really enjoyed this lecture.Its not the same boring thing with just talking and a little bit of pictures here and there,you actually made it really interesting.I would love if you made this a series and i request your next composer to be Franz Liszt.Love from Croatia❤
I am surprised Chopin never wrote an opera. He loved opera and the lyrical Arias that comes out through his music. His Preludes are so lyrical. I thing I like most of his preludes more than some of his Etude. Congratulations on your upcoming concerts.
He never wrote a Symphony neither. Orchestral writing was never his thing - he expressed his feelings through the piano like nobody else did at the time… He was NOT an orchestral composer, including opera. He was piano music composer. His original orchestrations for his piano concertos etc. had to be re-worked by his friends or editors, re-orchestrated, improved (as we hear them today).
As a whole, I prefer the first concerto, but the second movement of the 2nd concerto it´s my favorite of all of them. Sometimes I cry when I listen to it.
Great presentation! I think if I had only one composer to listen to, it would be Chopin! You have such a wonderful feel for his music (and also for Beethoven)!
Great job, Annique, and you have great taste! Artur Rubinstein is my absolute hero. The GOAT of the piano in my opinion. Both of Chopin's concertos are great works that touch deeply into our hearts. And BRAVA! Finally we get to hear you play at least some from Chopin's Sonatas, although the B minor Op.58 is my personal favourite (and I've just acquired it and am actually currently polishing on it).
@diom00 All of his Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, and Schubert. It's really hard to pick one. Rubinstein was such an all-round pianist that he played every composer with poise and conviction. Perhaps his only weaker link was the monaural recording of the Chopin Preludes Op.28. I fell in love with this pianist in the early-mid 1970s through his vinyl LP of Beethoven's Pathetique, Moonlight and Les Adieux Sonatas.
"These pieces are telling a story without using one single word." - Oh, but the music itself speaks volumes!!! I can't listen to the G-minor Ballade without hearing its magnificent, unspoken story. Fred
One of my favorite Chopin pieces is the one you close with, unidentified. It is the Étude Op. 10/3 in E major. I think my favorite is his Heroic Polonaise in Ab. Or maybe the Ballade No. 1 in Gm, which is way beyond my ability. Thank you for a marvelous stroll through the music of the Master of the Piano. I found it captivating. Fred
This was very informative. Chopin is definitely my favorite to play and listen to, this just bolstered my interest. Thank you so much, Annique! I hope to catch one of your performances soon!
Really great stuff Annique. This is my favorite video from you all time. I must say your playing has matured and is very special. I loved how you played everything but especially the G Minor Ballade. That middle section starting at 15:40 and then again at 16:26 is such wonderful writing. I loved how you did it. Great tempo, beautiful articulation and dynamics, which were perfect for my ear. I used to play this 20 years ago except for the coda which I crashed and burned. :) You've inspired me to go back to this and "slay the dragon" once and for all. Your practice tips on the Liebestraume cadenzas were so helpful that I got them in my fingers in 3 weeks. I was thrilled. I'll do that with the G minor coda. Every Ballade is an absolute musical treasure. BTW, your Boston Piano sounds great too. Thanks and best of luck with your career.
The Polonaise-Fantasie is like a journey back in time, from Chopin's perspective: back to his childhood and away from the absence of his family and friends in Paris
Yundi li's Chopin concerto no1 from the 14th Chopin competition is probably the best version. He was ridiculously good. I love his style and the quality of sound is out of this world. I can't believe he could do that in such a young age. just pure miracle.
Complimenti sei bravissima e altrettanto bella! Amo sentire le tue interpretazioni.La tua solarità e la tua grande passione per la musica pianistica, soprattutto quella romantica del periodo chopeniano, rende i tuo video fantastici, entusiasmanti. Riuscire a trasmettere le emozioni provate, non è semplice quanto suonare i capolavori del grande Maestro. Ancora complimenti. Michele.
Awesome video! I'm a new subscriber and really enjoyed your video format. It's very well put together and I loved watching you play. Thanks so much for all your hard work. I look forward to seeing you one day in concert 😊
Oh I love this video, I hadn't though that I'd bear to listen all the stories of this video, but your exquisite playing of the childish polonaise in G minor made me change my mind and stay on. I love the way you present it, and all the other stuff. I have read Eigedinger, Samson, and other biographies and analysis, therefore I doubted that I could bear to listen all of your video, but the title, "How he became the LEGEND", fascinated me beyond just enjoying hearing another angle on Chopin. I like the F-minor Concerto mostly because of the expressive harmonic runs of the second movement. Excuse me I also love the dress you use.
Do you answer the question? What made him a legend, as opposed to Liszt, and even to the later generations of incredible piano-virtuosos and great composers like Moskowsky, Busoni, Godowsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and many more is that his expressivity which you emphasize is present even in the childish G-minor polonaise. But the best explanation why he has become a LEGEND is that every piece from him is an earhanger, more or less, there are some which stand out, but others become earhangers when some film-director discovers its beauty, - like the second movement of the E-minor concerto used in its entireness in the film "The Truman Show", a caricature of modern TV series with one seriously tragic scene - the lovescene with this Larghetto from Chopin's E-minor concerto (written when he was barely 20 years old).
On the more tender side, my favorites are mazurka op 17 no 4 and op 10 no 3 etude. From the wilder side, I love the op 25 no 12 etude and the 2nd ballade (especially pogorelich's rendition)
Ich schließe mich auch der Meinung an, dass sich die biographischen Infos sehr gut mit der konkreten Musik vertragen und man dadurch Chopins Leben und Schaffen noch besser nachvollziehen kann. Ein schönes Video 👍🏼
Thank for for this documentary style video. You should do the same for Liszt, Bach, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin (my favorite composers ; ) ). Thanks in advance and great job.
My favorite is definitely the Polonaise fantasy in A flat major because of its complexity and the 'easter eggs' of so many other Chopin pieces. I really admire this pholyphonic way of Chopin's composing wich only appeared in his latest works:)
What a good video, the effort you put into these is really appreciated. I am learning Ballade no. 1 now and I am discovering how beautiful the story it tells is, open to so much interpretation. Now I need a violinist to go with it 😅
Love this style of video, and congratulations on the Apple Music sponsorship. Apple Music is my favorite of the music streaming services because of their classical app and better human curated playlists and writeups.
The last mvt his sonata I think is complex but after you listen to various recordings (my favorite recording is by Rachmaninoff) then it will sound very cool and epic
I think of the 4th movement in the second sonata as wind blowing leaves over a desolate grave. This makes sense to me in the context of the funeral march movement that precedes it.
Echt schönes und aufwendiges Video! 👍 Danke!🙏 Ich selbst habe heute erst op. 28 Nr. 7 wieder und wieder gespielt. Wenn man die wichtigsten Biographien über Chopin schon kennt, dann kann ich den Roman "Lucrezia Floriani" von George Sand empfehlen. Hier rechnet sie mit Chopin ab, nachdem sie keine Hoffnung mehr auf eine erfüllende Beziehung mit ihm hat. Für mich sind viele seiner Stücke und sein Leben ein Wunder, was ich nicht begreifen, nicht fassen kann.
Great video. Nocturnes are religiouse canonical hours that were sung at night rituals/processions. Some of Chopin's Nocturnes include Polish Marian Chants. They are in fact inspired by religiouse night rituals. One of them (Op. 15 nº3) could be even inspired by Ophelia's night funeral from Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The "Raindrop prelude" has another name in one of Chopin's Pupils scores, written in pencil "Rainy" in polish. Aslo prelude nº 20 has the title "Stabat Mater" in pencil too.
Really enjoyed this. One of my favorites from his early works is the Op. 3 Polonaise for cello and piano - which he dismissed as frivolous, but I think it's one of his most joyous pieces (and Carl Czerny even made a solo piano version of it!). What's your take on his B minor sonata compared to the B flat minor? And are your concerts in Paris and London going to be livestreamed, or posted afterwards at some point (for those of us across the pond?) Thank you!
This was your best video yet. I enjoy learning the history behind these composers, knowing the "human" side. It adds to the experience to watch you play these pieces (from a bird's-eye view!) at the same time as listening to them. I love Chopin but that finale looked and sounded to me like Piano Gymnastics. Not one of my favorite parts by him.
when I discovered the similarity of chromatic harmony in john fields nocturnes and the experience he had of meeting paganini I began to see where he got his ideas from
As you pay georgeous attention to so many details...just to mention that in French the "d" is pronounced in the name of George Sand ("Jorje Sonde") ;-)
I have many of Chopin's works on my Mac Music (formerly iTunes) playlists. I started out with a CD set from COSTCO then from the iTunes store I bought, "The Very Best of Chopin", "50 of the Best:Chopin", and "The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Piano." I like to rank them from one star (*) to five stars (*****) and then check the heart column of my top (4 & 5 star) favorites. That way I can enjoy the best of the best in one playlist.
F minor Ballade is my favorite. Never gets boring even after tinkering with it for thirty years (it's got many technical challenges). I also love how Chopin "stole" the descending pattern of the last lines of this ballade (D flat, C, A flat, F) and put it to great use as the opening motif of his last sonata, Bminor (G, F sharp, D, B and another F sharp an octave lower). Did he do that intentionally, or was it from his unconscious? Maybe we'll never know.
I hope you enjoyed this little journey through Chopin's life and work! You will find each piece played in this video on Apple Music Classical - get your two month free trial here: apple.co/Classical2
You should do this for other composers as well. I loved this video.
@heartofthekeys Poland did not exist during Chopin's lifetime at all. It was invaded and partitioned between Russian Empire (Warsaw), Prussian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1772. He did not return to Poland because Poland did not exist and he was on exile. This is because he refused to perform for the Russian emperor. Poland regained independence in the aftermath of the end of the First World War in 1918. Between 1772 and 1918 we had no country. One of the fathers of newly regained Polish independence in 1918 was another great Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Hid friendship with US president help negotiate our freedom. Chopin helped preserve our culture and identity which was particularly important when we were technically Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungarian colony
I like how you're performing examples of his music, instead of just basically a lecture. Makes the video a lot more dynamic.
chopins fantasie in f minor is an underrated gem, really fun to play too
I love it. I cannot play it just read it.
Powerful emotions felt through his music!! Thank you. 🇵🇱
It was brilliant to talk about the colors in the context of Chopin’s work and matching the colors of your dress and time of the day to the story you are narrating and the music you are playing. This video clearly shows how much work and attention to detail you put into it; it is truly impressive!
You’re my inspiration honestly. You talk about Chopin like the legend he is. Best wishes😁🎉
I loved this video. I'd love to see more like these with other composers!
if you don't mind, I am going to share this in my facebook account, so that more people know the history behind Chopin's music :) thank you, again, for your videos
Chopin's Sonata Op. 35 is one of my favorites too, is absolutely gorgeous.
You’ve created a new form of TH-cam video that I enjoy. Thanks!!
Wow! The G min ballad was fantastic! Brought back memories to me, grew up listening to Chopin. My god-brother was a classical pianist and I would lie under his baby grand and be taken to another world with this beautiful music 🎶 Thank you for these lovely pieces of Chopin. Have your CD and hope to hear more. 👏 - Michael G. in Texas, USA
Omg you're an inspiration 😮I love how you talk about chopin and your playing is so crisp and beautifully articulated!!!
I sincerely didn't think a new Chopin's Evolution video was necessary, but I was wrong ! What an outstanding work as always, top quality content.. Magnifique video Annique !
I just love Chopin and he has so many underated works like his first sonata.sometimes it’s so sad to see composers with like 100op and no one remembers them but I’m so glad Chopin is still very well known I couldn’t imagine my piano journey without him
Very well done, Annique. Thank you.
I really enjoyed this lecture.Its not the same boring thing with just talking and a little bit of pictures here and there,you actually made it really interesting.I would love if you made this a series and i request your next composer to be Franz Liszt.Love from Croatia❤
Chopin is the 🐐🐐🐐
nah beethoven is
@@cziffrathegreat666 beethoven too 😅😊
Its subjective
@@cziffrathegreat666 Freddie Chops would agree
Facts i'm i'm love with Chopin pieces
If anything he is the GOAT of piano
I have a better appreciation for Chopin now. Thanks Annique
I am surprised Chopin never wrote an opera. He loved opera and the lyrical Arias that comes out through his music. His Preludes are so lyrical. I thing I like most of his preludes more than some of his Etude. Congratulations on your upcoming concerts.
He never wrote a Symphony neither.
Orchestral writing was never his thing - he expressed his feelings through the piano like nobody else did at the time…
He was NOT an orchestral composer, including opera.
He was piano music composer.
His original orchestrations for his piano concertos etc. had to be re-worked by his friends or editors, re-orchestrated, improved (as we hear them today).
As a whole, I prefer the first concerto, but the second movement of the 2nd concerto it´s my favorite of all of them. Sometimes I cry when I listen to it.
Great presentation! I think if I had only one composer to listen to, it would be Chopin! You have such a wonderful feel for his music (and also for Beethoven)!
You are a wonderful pianist Annique.
Great job, Annique, and you have great taste!
Artur Rubinstein is my absolute hero. The GOAT of the piano in my opinion.
Both of Chopin's concertos are great works that touch deeply into our hearts.
And BRAVA! Finally we get to hear you play at least some from Chopin's Sonatas, although the B minor Op.58 is my personal favourite (and I've just acquired it and am actually currently polishing on it).
any rubinstein recordings that you recommend?
@diom00
All of his Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, and Schubert.
It's really hard to pick one. Rubinstein was such an all-round pianist that he played every composer with poise and conviction. Perhaps his only weaker link was the monaural recording of the Chopin Preludes Op.28.
I fell in love with this pianist in the early-mid 1970s through his vinyl LP of Beethoven's Pathetique, Moonlight and Les Adieux Sonatas.
@@peterchan6082 thanks for the info!
Such a beautiful video and homage to chopin 🙏🏾❤️
"These pieces are telling a story without using one single word." - Oh, but the music itself speaks volumes!!!
I can't listen to the G-minor Ballade without hearing its magnificent, unspoken story.
Fred
I have a soft spot for the Andante Spianato/Grande Polonaise brillante op.22. But as for favourite favourite... I love it all.
One of my favorite Chopin pieces is the one you close with, unidentified. It is the Étude Op. 10/3 in E major.
I think my favorite is his Heroic Polonaise in Ab. Or maybe the Ballade No. 1 in Gm, which is way beyond my ability.
Thank you for a marvelous stroll through the music of the Master of the Piano. I found it captivating.
Fred
Thank you for bringing Chopin life story - you were amazing in the story telling and the performance
Great show. Love it & learn a lot. Thank you. 🎉🎉
One of the best videos you recorded!! G minor polonaise is awesome discovery!🤗
this content is soooo interesting. really enjoyed this. Thanks for the upload.
This was very informative. Chopin is definitely my favorite to play and listen to, this just bolstered my interest. Thank you so much, Annique! I hope to catch one of your performances soon!
Congrats on your cooperation with Apple classical!
Sicher einer schoensten Vlog von Ihnen Annique. Gratuliere und weiterhin frohes schaffen.
Really great stuff Annique. This is my favorite video from you all time. I must say your playing has matured and is very special. I loved how you played everything but especially the G Minor Ballade. That middle section starting at 15:40 and then again at 16:26 is such wonderful writing. I loved how you did it. Great tempo, beautiful articulation and dynamics, which were perfect for my ear. I used to play this 20 years ago except for the coda which I crashed and burned. :) You've inspired me to go back to this and "slay the dragon" once and for all. Your practice tips on the Liebestraume cadenzas were so helpful that I got them in my fingers in 3 weeks. I was thrilled. I'll do that with the G minor coda. Every Ballade is an absolute musical treasure.
BTW, your Boston Piano sounds great too. Thanks and best of luck with your career.
I needed this video as a Chopin fan 😻 tysm!!
Love your material! Thank you.
Man this is so well done! You should do more of these!
Great video. ... Really love all of your videos !!! 😘😘😘
Sound quality is great and the piano has a beautiful tone. Great video!!! Your charming in many ways.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful video... Chopin was one of the greatest poets of the piano
Polonaise in F#min Op.44. picking a favorite is very difficult 😅 love the video.
Thank you very much!❤❤❤
Intelligent, pianist, great personality, and gorgeous! 👀❤️ Literally mesmerizing. Wish more women like this existed.
I am so excited to come to see and hear you performing Chopin's etudes in Paris ! 😊
Really good video, I like the way you explane the tings with a charming expression ❤. I hope you can do some video about Chopin Waltzes🙏.
Antique this was very stimulating. Thank you. Do come to New Zealand for a performance with the DSO Dunedin
i loved this video format ! you could do it more times with other composers
The Polonaise-Fantasie is like a journey back in time, from Chopin's perspective: back to his childhood and away from the absence of his family and friends in Paris
Mazurkas it's like an Chopin diary...
Polonaise-Fantasie it's more like a Chopin Biography...
Great video, and hilarious: “Always the Germans!” Excellent playing in the Sonata. LOVE all your presentations.
so excited to see you in paris ! love from france ! et merci pour votre virtuosité pianistique !
Yundi li's Chopin concerto no1 from the 14th Chopin competition is probably the best version. He was ridiculously good. I love his style and the quality of sound is out of this world. I can't believe he could do that in such a young age. just pure miracle.
Complimenti sei bravissima e altrettanto bella! Amo sentire le tue interpretazioni.La tua solarità e la tua grande passione per la musica pianistica, soprattutto quella romantica del periodo chopeniano, rende i tuo video fantastici, entusiasmanti.
Riuscire a trasmettere le emozioni provate, non è semplice quanto suonare i capolavori del grande Maestro.
Ancora complimenti.
Michele.
Awesome video! I'm a new subscriber and really enjoyed your video format. It's very well put together and I loved watching you play. Thanks so much for all your hard work. I look forward to seeing you one day in concert 😊
That piano is such a masterpiece! So beautiful :)
Love this video. Great balance of music and history
Oh I love this video, I hadn't though that I'd bear to listen all the stories of this video, but your exquisite playing of the childish polonaise in G minor made me change my mind and stay on. I love the way you present it, and all the other stuff. I have read Eigedinger, Samson, and other biographies and analysis, therefore I doubted that I could bear to listen all of your video, but the title, "How he became the LEGEND", fascinated me beyond just enjoying hearing another angle on Chopin.
I like the F-minor Concerto mostly because of the expressive harmonic runs of the second movement. Excuse me I also love the dress you use.
Do you answer the question? What made him a legend, as opposed to Liszt, and even to the later generations of incredible piano-virtuosos and great composers like Moskowsky, Busoni, Godowsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and many more is that his expressivity which you emphasize is present even in the childish G-minor polonaise.
But the best explanation why he has become a LEGEND is that every piece from him is an earhanger, more or less, there are some which stand out, but others become earhangers when some film-director discovers its beauty, - like the second movement of the E-minor concerto used in its entireness in the film "The Truman Show", a caricature of modern TV series with one seriously tragic scene - the lovescene with this Larghetto from Chopin's E-minor concerto (written when he was barely 20 years old).
On the more tender side, my favorites are mazurka op 17 no 4 and op 10 no 3 etude. From the wilder side, I love the op 25 no 12 etude and the 2nd ballade (especially pogorelich's rendition)
Ich schließe mich auch der Meinung an, dass sich die biographischen Infos sehr gut mit der konkreten Musik vertragen und man dadurch Chopins Leben und Schaffen noch besser nachvollziehen kann. Ein schönes Video 👍🏼
Thank for for this documentary style video. You should do the same for Liszt, Bach, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin (my favorite composers ; ) ). Thanks in advance and great job.
Great video, I enjoyed it a lot. I only missed a mentioning of the barcarolle, which to me is the pinnacle of his work
My favorite is definitely the Polonaise fantasy in A flat major because of its complexity and the 'easter eggs' of so many other Chopin pieces. I really admire this pholyphonic way of Chopin's composing wich only appeared in his latest works:)
This documentary is one I would dream of making, yet you narrate *and play* (!!!) all of it yourself??
Wowwwwwww.
What a good video, the effort you put into these is really appreciated. I am learning Ballade no. 1 now and I am discovering how beautiful the story it tells is, open to so much interpretation. Now I need a violinist to go with it 😅
A really great overview of Chopin's life and nice performances. Thanks! Only the ads were a bit tiresome...
Wonderful video! Thank you!
Ty for this interesting video! Fantasie-impromptu is definitely my favourite :)
It would be great if you could do this analyzing other composers :) amazing video
Hope you come to Singapore soon!
thanks for making awesome videos
Love from Sri Lanka❤🤩😘😘😘😘😘😘 🇱🇰
The second piece - the mazurka in a minor - is not op. 17 but op. 7. But thank you for your inspiring input about chopin.
Amazing video and interpretations!!
Hi! Amazing video! Cool idea, well done!
PS. 3:09 it's op. 7
PPS. "Żelazowa wola"
should be pronounced with Polish Ż.
Yeah Im polish ;)
Love this style of video, and congratulations on the Apple Music sponsorship. Apple Music is my favorite of the music streaming services because of their classical app and better human curated playlists and writeups.
Great video! Now one on Liszt, please 😃😍
The last mvt his sonata I think is complex but after you listen to various recordings (my favorite recording is by Rachmaninoff) then it will sound very cool and epic
Very informative👍You always create great videos🤗Thanks for your great efforts❤
Outstanding content, Annique!
I think of the 4th movement in the second sonata as wind blowing leaves over a desolate grave. This makes sense to me in the context of the funeral march movement that precedes it.
❤❤❤. A great video.
Everyone on earth knows Chopin, probably even the aliens...
Only in western countries. Classical music is very rare in poor and developing countries
Echt schönes und aufwendiges Video! 👍 Danke!🙏 Ich selbst habe heute erst op. 28 Nr. 7 wieder und wieder gespielt. Wenn man die wichtigsten Biographien über Chopin schon kennt, dann kann ich den Roman "Lucrezia Floriani" von George Sand empfehlen. Hier rechnet sie mit Chopin ab, nachdem sie keine Hoffnung mehr auf eine erfüllende Beziehung mit ihm hat. Für mich sind viele seiner Stücke und sein Leben ein Wunder, was ich nicht begreifen, nicht fassen kann.
The last movement of the second sonata was 100 years ahead of its time.
Personal fav: Largo from Sonata no. 3
Thanks!
Great video. Nocturnes are religiouse canonical hours that were sung at night rituals/processions. Some of Chopin's Nocturnes include Polish Marian Chants. They are in fact inspired by religiouse night rituals. One of them (Op. 15 nº3) could be even inspired by Ophelia's night funeral from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
The "Raindrop prelude" has another name in one of Chopin's Pupils scores, written in pencil "Rainy" in polish. Aslo prelude nº 20 has the title "Stabat Mater" in pencil too.
Really enjoyed this. One of my favorites from his early works is the Op. 3 Polonaise for cello and piano - which he dismissed as frivolous, but I think it's one of his most joyous pieces (and Carl Czerny even made a solo piano version of it!). What's your take on his B minor sonata compared to the B flat minor? And are your concerts in Paris and London going to be livestreamed, or posted afterwards at some point (for those of us across the pond?) Thank you!
Great video!
This was your best video yet. I enjoy learning the history behind these composers, knowing the "human" side. It adds to the experience to watch you play these pieces (from a bird's-eye view!) at the same time as listening to them. I love Chopin but that finale looked and sounded to me like Piano Gymnastics. Not one of my favorite parts by him.
The second concerto is rarely played. It is very beautiful. The first one is more recognizable due to its known melodies.
Great video 🙏thx
when I discovered the similarity of chromatic harmony in john fields nocturnes and the experience he had of meeting paganini I began to see where he got his ideas from
As you pay georgeous attention to so many details...just to mention that in French the "d" is pronounced in the name of George Sand ("Jorje Sonde") ;-)
I have many of Chopin's works on my Mac Music (formerly iTunes) playlists. I started out with a CD set from COSTCO then from the iTunes store I bought, "The Very Best of Chopin", "50 of the Best:Chopin", and "The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Piano." I like to rank them from one star (*) to five stars (*****) and then check the heart column of my top (4 & 5 star) favorites. That way I can enjoy the best of the best in one playlist.
Can u please also make a video about liszt’s story?
F minor Ballade is my favorite. Never gets boring even after tinkering with it for thirty years (it's got many technical challenges). I also love how Chopin "stole" the descending pattern of the last lines of this ballade (D flat, C, A flat, F) and put it to great use as the opening motif of his last sonata, Bminor (G, F sharp, D, B and another F sharp an octave lower). Did he do that intentionally, or was it from his unconscious? Maybe we'll never know.
Good video!
Chopin = 🐐
Op 9 was fun to hear with perfect left hand tempo, many others doing strange things on the right hand that the rest follows.
you are a deeply talented pianist.
I can't to start studying the Raindrop Prelude, its so beautiful and soft.
Thanks for teaching us some classical history, I don't read into it enough. 💜 I wish to see more.
It's one of my favorites, too. The middle section goes a bit dark and even more beautiful, too..