Thank you so much, Mr.Schiff for your wonderful series on the great musicians! So we'll narrated, played, inspiring, motivating for new young musicians and always something more to learn for the seasoned ones!!
Chopin is the most amazing Pionist ever he will be remembered always as the poet of the piano his works are remembered even today by many people around the world if only we all had the chance to say thank to him for giveing us the gift of his works and showing us there are no limitations of the human soul and the wonders much like his work can bring to the world.
Chopin is great. His music is adorable! Charming! Inspired! I also like schiff very much. He reminds me of Gould in many ways. His playing is very clear personal and soulful. When he plays, just like Gould, he is totally absorbed in the music. As a result the quality of his sound is incredible. I luv it =)
Besides Schiff being such a wonderful pianist, he makes one fine commentator. He's worthy of doing this for a living if his fingers should ever fail him.
I've heard András Schiff say it may be a blessing that we know almost nothing about JS Bach's life, so we can only look up to him when hearing his music. Unfortunately, he doesn't extend that sentiment to Chopin when he opines so much and so subjectively about his life and psychology, which can be nothing but speculation. It is often impossible to know another person's inner workings even when we know them intimately over a lifetime. Much of our own inner workings and motivations are unknown to our own selves. So how does Schiff pretend to know what motivated Chopin to side with George Sand's daughter, and other such claims. I have to say this program has greatly disappointed me. Why should we feel entitled to discuss our own imagined motivations of another person's private life? Let them rest in peace - they were human like us and we should respect the privacy of their personal lives. They left us their music and that should be all we should claim from them.
Mariza Cabral I respectfully disagree, I think he obviously has great admiration for Chopin and bases almost all of his commentary on facts or the music itself. As you said the great composers were humans just like us and had the same struggles and challenges as we do, so I don’t think it’s wrong to discuss them as humans and we do know a lot more about Chopin than Bach, and some of us are interested in the music and the life of the composer
@@franklyvulgar1 it is actually really cool he died ages ago and people are still interested in him, i would not mind if people talked about me years ago i am done hahaha
Mariza Cabral : I too respectfully disagree. For more than 150 years people have been writing about Chopin and his contemporaries, and some of it has been inaccurate. But at least we know that András Schiff would have studied every single document and delved deeply into archives and all facets of history. This is the way he does everything relating to music. And we are richer for it. I am very grateful to him.
I've played this piece at a recital at a former piano teacher's house. I suppose everyone who started playing Chopin has played this piece. What do I know? All I know is what my teachers tell me or what I see on TH-cam.
Lol you are right "forbidden" is bullshit - Hummel's Art of Playing the Pianoforte has loads of thumbs on black notes (and not just in octaves.). It's just that Chopin did it more and in more unexpected places.
Alloy Brendan I don't think you understand what he means by that. Sentimentality is exaggerated/cheap emotions (aka. making the music more sad for the sake of being sad). Chopin's music is full of sentiment - which is different. It's full of emotions directly from Chopin's heart. There is nothing exaggerated about it. Liszt's music in my opinion is more sentimental - not Chopin.
Schiff...one of the greatest living pianists of our day.....
I heard him play Bach’s Partitas at La Fenice in Venice nearly three years ago. A miraculous performance.,
Thank you so much, Mr.Schiff for your wonderful series on the great musicians!
So we'll narrated, played, inspiring, motivating for new young musicians and always something more to learn for the seasoned ones!!
I like Schiff, both his voice and his bach. :>
thank you very much for uploading these videos. I watch them over and over. and thanks to andras schiff who tells us so beautifully about chopin.
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Andras Schiff, what an amazing pianist, never tire of listening to him play, and great to hear him explain about Chopin one of my favourite composers.
Besides Schiff being such a wonderful pianist, he makes one fine commentator.
Chopin is the most amazing Pionist ever he will be remembered always as the poet of the piano his works are remembered even today by many people around the world if only we all had the chance to say thank to him for giveing us the gift of his works and showing us there are no limitations of the human soul and the wonders much like his work can bring to the world.
אף אחד לא מרגיש את שופן כמוך... אחרי ששומעים אותך כבר אי אפשר לשמוע אף אחד אחר. תודה רבה.
Thank you András Schiff, thank you blattman to upload the docu!
I'm so in love with his music, an we have someone who can show us all our curiosity of this legend.
Big up Andre's Schiff
Your a legend
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Me too, my greatest affinity is to Chopin. I've been scouring TH-cam unsuccessfully for a Chopin biography up until this lucky moment.
Lovely. Many thanks to András Schiff and to blattman, and to TH-cam.
thank you for this gem!
Row row fight the power!!!!
Chopin is great. His music is adorable! Charming! Inspired!
I also like schiff very much. He reminds me of Gould in many ways. His playing is very clear personal and soulful. When he plays, just like Gould, he is totally absorbed in the music. As a result the quality of his sound is incredible. I luv it =)
Chopin composed a sublime cello sonata.
Chopin is amazing! I am so glad to see so little dislikes! and also so many likes!
Beautiful!
Chopin is the absolute greatest!!
HE WAS SOMETHING DEEP! SAMSING CRAZY! FULL OF LOVE.. I LOVE HIM LOVE HIM LOVE
Beautifully done.
Besides Schiff being such a wonderful pianist, he makes one fine commentator. He's worthy of doing this for a living if his fingers should ever fail him.
chopin is one of my favoryte composers he was just brilliant
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i listen to schiff for bach...i have never heard him play chopin. wow
How nice piano tone! As much as i remember, Chopin also used this brand piano
He did indeed love Pleyel.
now I want pleyel lol
Was - and still IS, my Friend....
Most interesting!!!!
Nocturne in E flat major. The third one.
I've heard András Schiff say it may be a blessing that we know almost nothing about JS Bach's life, so we can only look up to him when hearing his music. Unfortunately, he doesn't extend that sentiment to Chopin when he opines so much and so subjectively about his life and psychology, which can be nothing but speculation. It is often impossible to know another person's inner workings even when we know them intimately over a lifetime. Much of our own inner workings and motivations are unknown to our own selves. So how does Schiff pretend to know what motivated Chopin to side with George Sand's daughter, and other such claims. I have to say this program has greatly disappointed me. Why should we feel entitled to discuss our own imagined motivations of another person's private life? Let them rest in peace - they were human like us and we should respect the privacy of their personal lives. They left us their music and that should be all we should claim from them.
Mariza Cabral I respectfully disagree, I think he obviously has great admiration for Chopin and bases almost all of his commentary on facts or the music itself. As you said the great composers were humans just like us and had the same struggles and challenges as we do, so I don’t think it’s wrong to discuss them as humans and we do know a lot more about Chopin than Bach, and some of us are interested in the music and the life of the composer
@@franklyvulgar1 it is actually really cool he died ages ago and people are still interested in him, i would not mind if people talked about me years ago i am done hahaha
Mariza Cabral : I too respectfully disagree. For more than 150 years people have been writing about Chopin and his contemporaries, and some of it has been inaccurate. But at least we know that András Schiff would have studied every single document and delved deeply into archives and all facets of history. This is the way he does everything relating to music. And we are richer for it. I am very grateful to him.
I've played this piece at a recital at a former piano teacher's house. I suppose everyone who started playing Chopin has played this piece. What do I know? All I know is what my teachers tell me or what I see on TH-cam.
I LOVE YOU FREDERIC! I LOVE YOU
Chopin is a god
in 8,26 is the twin brother of Moreira Lima!
Consumption is called tuberculosis today, isn't it? My grandfather died from it back in 1939 I was told.
@dalecampbl5 Haha yeah, how else could you play, for example, and f# octave without your thumb? Ridiculous!
Many pianists add this element, but it is not the written music.
And it's here that I realize that I've been saying Chopin's surname wrong this whole time...
haha
I did not know Chopin only composed music for the piano.
he composed concertos bro
And operas and piano with cello
wait... andras schiff plays chopin?
Debatable
it would only be a miracle if he wasn't the son of two musicians...(6:00)
Turtles that play Waltz No. 2 Op. 64?
6:27 i love this documentary but bro this is bullshit you could always play thumbs on the black keys why not xdddd
Lol you are right "forbidden" is bullshit - Hummel's Art of Playing the Pianoforte has loads of thumbs on black notes (and not just in octaves.). It's just that Chopin did it more and in more unexpected places.
@@subplantant thanks for replying bro, I wonder what Schiff meant by saying it, because it does not make sense in my opinion
Should have had someone that represents Chopin much more do the documentary. Schiff sticks to Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.
i like turtles
I love the man and I love his playing. But a great Chopinist Schiff is not.
I know why he was happy to stay on the piano. It got him all the girls.
loool
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Saying a composer sounds like Chopin should be a universal insult like calling someone a hun..
Too bad this classy pianist does not come to Hungary anymore for political reasons. Great, unsolicited loss.
Oh yeah suuure lolol.."no trace of sentimentality" are you listening to what you just played in the opening lolol
Yeah, that's right. Ooops!
"no element of sentimality in his music" - Im sorry sir but thats just bulls*&t his music is packed with it
Alloy Brendan I don't think you understand what he means by that. Sentimentality is exaggerated/cheap emotions (aka. making the music more sad for the sake of being sad). Chopin's music is full of sentiment - which is different. It's full of emotions directly from Chopin's heart. There is nothing exaggerated about it. Liszt's music in my opinion is more sentimental - not Chopin.
@@coolmuso6108 same with Alkan
Schiff is a very good pianist who's terrible at documentaries. Not good.