Beethoven makes dissonance resolve into even more dissonance, stringing the listener along until the tonic could not be more desired. I love Beethoven's music!
My grandmother taught piano, so despite lack of talent & short chubby fingers/rapidly declining eyesight, I butchered my way through the first movement at my last HS recital at 16. I bought the sheet music last year at 38 & couldn’t believe I got through 20 whole pages! It was sloppy, but God bless muscle memory! Picking up an 80+ weighted keyboard in adulthood has proved muscle memory a potent tool with my “go-to” pieces like this & Chopin nocturnes. Slight riding-a-bike factor compared to learning new music now. But it’s hard to get the tempo right! I appreciate the guidance.. I tend to rush through the slow, deliberate parts of the 1st movement, then can’t keep up with the fast bursts😂At least I learned the 1st movement before 2nd, which I’m playing now. I may have butchered it a tad at my recital, but I get to say I learned the 1st movement 1st. The 2nd’s doable, of course, God help me on the uncharted 3rd!
Some unsolicited advice: There are several very high quality collections of the Beethoven sonatas with sheet music on RU-vid already (Ashish Xiangyi Kumar comes to mind). There are also many high quality collections of Beethoven sonatas with camera focused on the performer (Daniel Barenboim comes to mind). However, there are none that I'm aware of in your signature style (sheets+hand camera). I don't know if you intend to go through the whole cycle, but if you do, doing it in your style would create something quite unique that people can't easily get anywhere else. I hope I wasn't being too presumptuous with that.
Thank you for recording the Pathetique. I have been playing this composition for a while trying to play it the way Beethoven would have played it. Your interpretation helps me tremendously and I know I need to correct my tempo. Thank you for sharing your wonderful pianistic ability.
I love this piece! I have been playing this piece for quite a few months. Its contrasting movements are structured. In my opinion, the 1st movement creates tension and depicts struggle. The 2nd movement Andante Cantabile provides a sense of tranquility and is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard. While the 3rd movement is a mixture of sadness and happiness. Honestly, I've never heard an interpretation of this piece in which the recording as well as playing quality is so amazing! This recording has made a place in my Favorites list! 👏🏻 If Beethoven was alive today, he would surely be happy for 2 things (Firstly, the pianist and his playing and secondly, because his 249th birthday is fast approaching on 15th December) The recording quality is just superb!👌🏼 And as always, Paul's interpretation and playing is exceptional! Keep it up, Paul! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Regards from India🇮🇳
I've started to learn the first and last movements over the last few weeks (having learnt the middle first like many others) and found myself wishing there was a Paul Barton tutorial on it, what perfect timing! And beautifully played as well.
This sonata is not too hard to learn, I'm alright at piano and it took me about 2 and a half months to learn all three movements. I started with the 2nd and then the 1st and 3rd. The left hand broken octaves in the 1st is tricky but other than that as long as you start slow you can work your way up to it.
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Literally learning this rn. It’s both easy and hard, I love how the mood changes back and forth. My piano teacher likes to think if it as a couple fighting ha
Beethoven had many important advanced technical break through in the late 18th century which totally revolutionise the art of piano playing especially the many promenant octaves passage. His grand pupil Franz Liszt took it to the age of 'impossible' , but Alkan is one of a kind which make Franz Liszt sounds like twinkle twinkle little stars !
Simply unbelievable sensational this is a piece that I really want to play and want to watch the tutorial because for me it is one of the best pianists of the Internet, the interpretation is also amazing I am your fan abrasive hugs 🇵🇹
Beautiful playing the best I have heard keep playing I will always listen to your pieces you play so good and with your lovely elephants they so much love your playing keep it all coming💗💗💗💗💗💗
Your rendition is superb, soulful and clear!! I'm learning this piece (I'm a beginner who likes to pick stuff WAY out of my league and teach myself)... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to play it this nicely!! ☺
Did you used to be a touring concert pianist? You are better than some I have heard, especially with the excellent strength and control you have playing Beethoven. Thank you for sharing!
Now THAT is an intimidating score for me! Marvelous, well done. I’ve done my grade 5 music theory but I’m ashamed to say that there are more values there which I don’t know how to say yet!
If you're talking about notes, it's actually really simple. It goes semi, then demi, then hemi, and then you can keep on adding these on to the base. So you can eventually have a hemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver
@@TheSIGHTREADINGProject the order just repeats itself. So it's semi, demi, hemi, semi, demi, hemi, semi, demi, hemi, etc, etc. You can use this to create as small a note as you want.
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Still working on the 2nd movement. The pedal marking on the sheet is useful. I have the Henle version and nothing on there. Asked my teacher and he said pedal is based on harmonics. Yet it is hard to grasp the correct way. I am upper intermediate.
What version of the score did you use? I followed the link in the description but it lacks pedal markings, smaller dynamics, etc. and was wondering if there was a way to access a more detailed version!
It's definitely a C.F. Peters edition, but probably a more "recent" issue because of the added metronome indications and pedal markings (earlier issues seem to lack those).
