I love, not only what you educate us with your analysis, but your expression, facial and physical, brings so much color to the analysis as if I am sitting in your music room. I look forward to the next one always. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks for your detailed analysis. It is not boring at all. I wish I had a music teacher like you when I was learning piano as a kid. I would have appreciated Chopin's works even more then. Now at my midlife, my passion for classical music is suddenly reignited. I am in tears listening to your beautiful performance and interpretation of this masterpiece 🥲
Even though the lesson does not focus on technical aspect of the piece, the remarks such as "written by an artist who has time" actually helps me steering my interpretation of the piece. I am still practicing the nocturne and revisiting this lesson from time to time.
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS AND IMPORTANT!!!!! Thank you for one of my favourite Chopin's Nocturnes and for an excellent performance, your analylis/tutorial will be helpful for many pianists, I watch this video now on your channel (really you are very busy, every day your new recording), again my best wishes, have a nice Sunday/happy new week. Joanna
that was the most incredible and interesting analysis I ever watched, wow. you passed the piece in a way that no one else passed before, it was really the best hour of my week. one thing last, I wonder how you did not extend this part - 59:34 the way it erupts at the end of the ''part B'' just an amazing harmonious movement! thank you, my dream is to have a teacher like u:)
Hi, thank you!! Well I didn't extend it maybe because of the length of the video which already was about one hour until that moment! But I agree with you! I'm having some lessons via WhatsApp or Skype. It's never the same than live but with some enthusiastic people it works very well! Thank you for your words
Wow, it's fantastic! And you really shocked me with that information about the keys!!! Chopin never stops surprising me and amazing me! And it's astonishing how much balance Chopin gets writing it, the length of the parts when he brings them back (always different, especially part A) and the surprises he provides on the "narrative" level, as to say. One of the most remarkable compositions, surely! Thanks to you now I'm even more motivated to study this challenging Nocturne! Thank you, always, for your great and beautiful work! 👏🙏😃
Thank you very much for this analysis. It made me understand why I was stuck with this piece... something was different! Your historical and musical information explains why and confirms this masterpiece is unique. 44 modulations out of the classics 22... Double GENIOUS I would say... Thanks again and... To the MOON!.........,,, 🙏💫
Thank you so much for this marvelous analysis. I’m an older person learning the piano just so that I can undersatnd the music I love better, and this demonstration of Chopin’s nocturn 37#2 is so exciitng and brilliant! Many thanks!
Thank you so much. excellent tutorial. After straggling with this piece for months, my understanding of it will add both to the quality of playing it, and to my own enjoyment.
Regarding your remark about this being the first piece to modulate to all the major and minor keys, there is one precedent that I know of. In 1789, when he was still living in Bonn, Beethoven composed two preludes for piano or organ that cycle through all the major keys (these preludes were later published as Op. 39). However, Beethoven doesn't modulate to all the minor keys in the same piece like Chopin in his G major Nocturne.
Apologies for the tedious jargon but I noticed a lot of the progressions are actually quite simple 2 5 1 (Majors and minors) what makes a lot of the harmonies sound complex are the voicings. I noticed he uses a lot of droping of the thirds of chords to a lower octave, making them tha bass note. (a bit like Bill Evans😂.) And that beginning of the theme on bar 26(?) From Bbm to GbMaj (augmented sounding but written as flat6...) with Bb at the bass is... heaven... Thank you 🙏🙏❤
Thank you for explaining the "key" of a piece. I did always wonder about that and when you played the little bit of op9 n2 in Cmaj it still sounded good to me however it sounds better the higher you go even above E, to me anyways.
Thank you for this! I have loved this nocturne for years (decades!) and finally decided to learn it. As you say, is difficult and uncomfortable, and it needs a lot of practice and repetition with precise fingering. I had just decided that I needed to devote some serious effort to working out what was happening with the key changes when I found your video. It was very timely and very helpful! I hope I will soon be able to give a reasonably musical performance, but I fear I will never manage to memorise it.
Wow awesome! Analysis I’ve never heard it ‘s French fork song! Boat on a lake never ending melody like barkarole.. I ‘ve heard that . Thank you Greg! most important nocturn🤔I’d like to play this one. I have to see your analysis again!
This is possibly my favorite Nocturne, but I will probably never play it because Part A is so difficult. It definitely should have been called an Etude for double notes. Even more so if you go through with this pattern in all of the keys! Also, Part B is much different than Part A. It's a "Contrast", which makes the song interesting. And also, the bass in Part A2 works like a pedal point. Is that more common in jazz? And, it's Amazing that you can play this complicated piece while counting modulations in English. Incredible video!
Shouldn’t there be a more significant reason for the use of all 24 chords? Is there anything in Chopin’s writings to indicate that he was declining to try the convention of writing within a genre for each key? Looking across the nocturnes, he chose B major three times, (including the posthumous works) C minor and c# sharp minor twice, and E-flat Major twice. Is it plausible that Chopin could be nodding to the convention, but declined to follow it by using the nocturnes as a whole as his most sincere expression of human feelings?
Sono pianista,il mio amore per chopin è esploso da quando ho visitato Varsavia e da quando ti seguo ,vorrei venire a sentirti a qualche concerto in Polonia,porterei anche i miei allievi,parlo spesso di te a loro e mi piacerebbe salutarti dal vivo ,sarò a varsavia a luglio
So impressive how is this the only song to have every single key in it and no one noticed 🤯 at not least not on TH-cam You barely even notice the key changes they're so seamless
Its ok big master! Beethoven is overrated....I only like his 5 concerti (I have a student that plays the 1st, and I played with orchestra the 1st, and also the 5th on two pianos)
Its a bit strange that there's still so much to be discovered in Chopin's music. Even though his music is rather popular, a lot of its details still stay hidden.
Chopin był geniuszem a Pan też nim jest ! Jestem oczarowana Pana niezwykłą analizą duchowości artysty tak głęboko wprowadzającą w powód powstania dzieła.
It is fascinating to me how my appreciation of a piece of music can increase by having a new technical dimension explained to me .
I love, not only what you educate us with your analysis, but your expression, facial and physical, brings so much color to the analysis as if I am sitting in your music room. I look forward to the next one always. Thank you for your hard work.
Thanks for your detailed analysis. It is not boring at all. I wish I had a music teacher like you when I was learning piano as a kid. I would have appreciated Chopin's works even more then. Now at my midlife, my passion for classical music is suddenly reignited. I am in tears listening to your beautiful performance and interpretation of this masterpiece 🥲
Awwww.... Thank you so much! It means a lot!
Even though the lesson does not focus on technical aspect of the piece, the remarks such as "written by an artist who has time" actually helps me steering my interpretation of the piece. I am still practicing the nocturne and revisiting this lesson from time to time.
Thank you so much dear Trung!
This is one of my favorite nocturne, thanks you!
SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS AND IMPORTANT!!!!! Thank you for one of my favourite Chopin's Nocturnes and for an excellent performance, your analylis/tutorial will be helpful for many pianists, I watch this video now on your channel (really you are very busy, every day your new recording), again my best wishes, have a nice Sunday/happy new week. Joanna
As one with perfect pitch, I can confirm those modulations were insane.
that was the most incredible and interesting analysis I ever watched, wow.
you passed the piece in a way that no one else passed before, it was really the best hour of my week.
one thing last, I wonder how you did not extend this part - 59:34 the way it erupts at the end of the ''part B''
just an amazing harmonious movement!
thank you, my dream is to have a teacher like u:)
Hi, thank you!!
Well I didn't extend it maybe because of the length of the video which already was about one hour until that moment! But I agree with you!
I'm having some lessons via WhatsApp or Skype. It's never the same than live but with some enthusiastic people it works very well!
Thank you for your words
@@gregniemczuk do you have live lessons? I mean for the general public?
@@baduk5707 I'm a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice
Yes the different tonalities are in different sound registers and definitively make huge differences in the atmosphere of compositions.
The next one in c minor in my opinion is the greatest nocturne out of them all, look forward to hearing that one!
Welcome next Saturday evening!
Wow, it's fantastic! And you really shocked me with that information about the keys!!! Chopin never stops surprising me and amazing me! And it's astonishing how much balance Chopin gets writing it, the length of the parts when he brings them back (always different, especially part A) and the surprises he provides on the "narrative" level, as to say. One of the most remarkable compositions, surely! Thanks to you now I'm even more motivated to study this challenging Nocturne! Thank you, always, for your great and beautiful work! 👏🙏😃
Wonderful!! Good luck! Thanks for the comment!
Thank you very much for this analysis. It made me understand why I was stuck with this piece... something was different! Your historical and musical information explains why and confirms this masterpiece is unique. 44 modulations out of the classics 22...
Double GENIOUS I would say...
Thanks again and...
To the MOON!.........,,,
🙏💫
Thanks!!!!!
Thank you so much for this marvelous analysis. I’m an older person learning the piano just so that I can undersatnd the music I love better, and this demonstration of Chopin’s nocturn 37#2 is so exciitng and brilliant! Many thanks!
I'm so happy that you came across my channel and you like it! I love inspiring people!
Thank you so much. excellent tutorial. After straggling with this piece for months, my understanding of it will add both to the quality of playing it, and to my own enjoyment.
Oh yes... it's so demanding!!! Thanks for watching!
Teşekkürler. Makale ödevimi bitirmemde bana çok yardımcı oldu.😊
Regarding your remark about this being the first piece to modulate to all the major and minor keys, there is one precedent that I know of. In 1789, when he was still living in Bonn, Beethoven composed two preludes for piano or organ that cycle through all the major keys (these preludes were later published as Op. 39). However, Beethoven doesn't modulate to all the minor keys in the same piece like Chopin in his G major Nocturne.
Dear Eric, thank you for this enriching comment! Indeed I didn't know about that pieces
Apologies for the tedious jargon but I noticed a lot of the progressions are actually quite simple 2 5 1 (Majors and minors) what makes a lot of the harmonies sound complex are the voicings. I noticed he uses a lot of droping of the thirds of chords to a lower octave, making them tha bass note.
(a bit like Bill Evans😂.)
And that beginning of the theme on bar 26(?) From Bbm to GbMaj (augmented sounding but written as flat6...) with Bb at the bass is... heaven... Thank you 🙏🙏❤
Good point!
Thank you for explaining the "key" of a piece. I did always wonder about that and when you played the little bit of op9 n2 in Cmaj it still sounded good to me however it sounds better the higher you go even above E, to me anyways.
Thank you for this! I have loved this nocturne for years (decades!) and finally decided to learn it. As you say, is difficult and uncomfortable, and it needs a lot of practice and repetition with precise fingering. I had just decided that I needed to devote some serious effort to working out what was happening with the key changes when I found your video. It was very timely and very helpful! I hope I will soon be able to give a reasonably musical performance, but I fear I will never manage to memorise it.
I believe in you!! Love and passion may be your guide! All the best, thank you for the comment!
Have you managed to memorise it, or perform it yet?
@@shlecko I haven’t managed to memorise it! I have played it to family and friends. Sometimes it works - and other times it doesn’t!
so good
Perhaps you are the first to discover!? Great video, keep it up
Maybe!! That would be awesome!
Wow awesome! Analysis
I’ve never heard it ‘s French fork song!
Boat on a lake never ending melody like barkarole..
I ‘ve heard that . Thank you Greg! most important nocturn🤔I’d like to play this one. I have to see your analysis again!
Thank you!!!
Thank you! Now i realize why it was so hard for me to even read this, that I didn't proceed in learning it. Now maybe i will
This is possibly my favorite Nocturne, but I will probably never play it because Part A is so difficult.
It definitely should have been called an Etude for double notes.
Even more so if you go through with this pattern in all of the keys!
Also, Part B is much different than Part A. It's a "Contrast", which makes the song interesting.
And also, the bass in Part A2 works like a pedal point. Is that more common in jazz?
And, it's Amazing that you can play this complicated piece while counting modulations in English.
Incredible video!
naprawdę bardzo interesujące!
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Dziękuję!
Shouldn’t there be a more significant reason for the use of all 24 chords? Is there anything in Chopin’s writings to indicate that he was declining to try the convention of writing within a genre for each key? Looking across the nocturnes, he chose B major three times, (including the posthumous works) C minor and c# sharp minor twice, and E-flat Major twice. Is it plausible that Chopin could be nodding to the convention, but declined to follow it by using the nocturnes as a whole as his most sincere expression of human feelings?
Sono pianista,il mio amore per chopin è esploso da quando ho visitato Varsavia e da quando ti seguo ,vorrei venire a sentirti a qualche concerto in Polonia,porterei anche i miei allievi,parlo spesso di te a loro e mi piacerebbe salutarti dal vivo ,sarò a varsavia a luglio
Piano teacher in Scotland here. Wish I could come turn your pages for you. :)
I don't need that because I always play from memory when playing concerts.
Only when I do the lecture I use the score
So impressive how is this the only song to have every single key in it and no one noticed 🤯 at not least not on TH-cam
You barely even notice the key changes they're so seamless
Yes!! Right?
This song is about a girl crying and complaining on and on while the man is trying to comfort her.
Greg, Beethoven wrote 2 preludes that goes in whole 24 keys
Damn! I did not know! What a shame
Its ok big master! Beethoven is overrated....I only like his 5 concerti (I have a student that plays the 1st, and I played with orchestra the 1st, and also the 5th on two pianos)
His Sonatas makes me sleep...Haydn and Mozart wrote much marter in my opinion. Hayds is much underrated comparing to Beethoven
Its a bit strange that there's still so much to be discovered in Chopin's music. Even though his music is rather popular, a lot of its details still stay hidden.
Indeed! Because of his genius!
Chopin był geniuszem a Pan też nim jest ! Jestem oczarowana Pana niezwykłą analizą duchowości artysty tak głęboko wprowadzającą w powód powstania dzieła.
Thank you for your genial analysis of a genial Nocturne!P.Helling
🌶️Enorme flow!✌️ Ojalá te mole el contenido de #Darko_Dixit 💓