Excellent analysis/tutorial and is also my favorite SVR prelude!!! I am sometimes lukewarm about some of SVRs recordings and interpretations of his own music (EDIT: Though, I am thrilled to have recordings of SVR in the first place and I should not be so spoiled!). However, his recording of Op32 #12 is the best interpretation and phrasing I've ever heard!!! I wanted to ask for clarification RE: the Opus 19 Cello melody ( @ 03:30 in your video): You weren't speaking about the slower 3rd movement, were you? The second movement does have some really long and beautiful Cello lines interspersed within the more energetic passages. But the 3rd movement Cello part also has a very long beautiful melody it carries. I love BOTH!! I very much enjoyed this video, Thank you!
Nice video. Unless I'm missing something, T R L R L R is not a palindrome. You'd have to stick a T on the end, but that is the start of the next sequence.
Very nice. This will motivate me to 16:38 go back playing this. I’ve always loved Brahms. There’s a story behind this. I started taking lessons at the age of 55, after being a hack on the keyboard for years. I tutor calculus. A man, about my age, came for lessons. He was quite eccentric and wanted to study engineering for an unfathomable reason. His name was Billy Brahms. He claimed that his 90 year old mother was the daughter (or granddaughter ) of Brahms’ sister. He never explained why his mother kept the last name. After his mother died, Billy just disappeared. This was circa 2005 on Long Island. Struck by the coincidence, since I was singing his Requiem with my chorus at the time I met him, I decided to try to memorize this piece. I did - but have hardly touched the piano for the last 2 years. Listening to this will make me go back to the piano. Thank you.
You can hear exactly what Debussy thought. Listen to his piano roll that he claimed was a perfect reproduction. It’s available. People now play it very differently.
I love your interpretation. I’m actually playing this piece for my first diploma, and I find your advice extremely helpful. I can play the melody well but the ornament were very muffled. I understand to keep my fingers very close to the keys for the ornaments. I will go through all your advice, it’s like à piano master class on line. Thanks so much. I don’t think it’s hard to memorise though.
maestro, i love your dark scenario with the husband grumbling about the wife always moping and then he wanders off to his own more important business, and the wife wonders about her lover, and is consoled--all the more need for the plot of marriage of figaro--seriously, clive, great stuff for pianists who work on this piece
very very glad to have found this swansbourne channel--this video on the schubert gb impromptu a wonderful lecture-demo, so smoothly, conversationally presented--and he didn't disturb the swan disguised as a duck napping in his studio
@@swansbourne ah, i see my mistake--i took the sculpture less literally than i should have: that IS an enormous beak and a fantastically capacious neck, both of which are beautifully engineered to get large meals down and packed away in a hurry, nothing a swan could do, or even want to do
This is such a great tutorial, I keep coming back to it as I progress through the piece. There is some ambiguity in the score at times, particularly in terms of dynamics, which you clarify / interpret very well.
Thank you so much for this. I don't play myself. I seem to remember hearing this when I was very young ,maybe it was a teacher practising in my junior school. Then a huge gap of years before I heard it several years ago. It's so beautiful. For me Horowitz playing it in Vienna was amazing, he hardly moved his fingers.
I've worked on this truly gorgeous piece for about 12 months now. But listening to your video gives me so many other interesting ideas to think about. And all presented in such a clear and calm manner. Thanks so much 👍
Now make a new video and play the whole piece without interruptions please please please !!! Thank you very much, sir. By the way thanks for the good pedal tutorial.
Excellent tutorial, Clive! I worked on this piece about 50 years ago! It's such a joy to revisit it now and you're suggestions and examples for absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much!
Beethoven felt his own lack of skill in counterpoint, and embarked on an intensive study of Bach and Handel in his last years. This shows in the last Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations the last piano sonatas and the music for 'The Consecration of the House'. The syncopated passage in Op.111 is almost lifted from The Art of Fugue, second movement.
I’ve been practicing this piece since May and have watched many, many tutorials on YT-this is the only one that addresses key technical difficulties and explains them in a professional, concise manner. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. Thank you!
It amazes me that as composers made a living from selling sheet music there must have been many people who could play this music. How many could afford a piano? Excellent analysis
I have played this but I must admit that I forgot how beautiful it is. Your insights have brought it all back to me in a fresh way. Thank you. It is indeed, from my perspective, one of Chopin's greatest works.
You have absolutely huge hands. I wonder how one is supposed to play those broken cords in the left hand starting at roughly 12:07, playing them in one movement with like 1 2 3 5 or 1 2 4 5 seems impossible with my hand, I was experimenting with 2 1 2 5 but doing it in speed seems really hard, maybe 1 2 1 5 is that plausible?
I am very glad to have found this video. It'll give me a lot of ideas how to improve my playing of this piece. Many thanks! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JF_Mj_oJvvE.htmlfeature=shared
