Impressive! I think no body here knew about this piece. I like living in this era so much I can enjoy and find new music even from old well-known composers!
Oh wow I haven't heard this in several decades and at 1st I didn't recognise it until it got into the main section. I remember listening to the Rubinstein recording when I was much younger. I love this piece.
Chopin fez uma oferta da Beleza à Condessa! Não juntou as mãos para ofertá-la, más espalmou-as para a agilidade dos seus dedos darem o recado da sua Alma! Belíssimo Bolero!
In fact the ending looks a lot like the ending of the Grand polonaise brillante Op. 22, I don't know how to say it in english, the last times or the last beats...
Reminds me a little bit of the Grande Polonaise Brillante for some reason. I guess mainly the middle section that uses the same left hand rhythm as in the Polonaise. A lot of the same effects are used too.
Great performance of a wonderful piece I’ve never heard before. Nine bar phrases and unresolved seventh chords in the section at measure 34. Check it out!
Chopin be like: “Am I gonna go romantic?”...”No, let’s go chromatic...and fucking fast”...”I got that, I’m gonna push that beat and then I’m gonna relax and meditate and then I’m gonna push again, fuckers.”
Beautiful piece and great performance! Thanks a lot for uploading. I thought I knew the Chopin catalogue pretty well, but I had no prior knowledge of this piece. No clear Spanish harmonies that I can hear, I guess the title primarily refers to the rhythm that Chopin chose for this piece. Pretty similar in style to some of the Polonaises, as someone else wrote. A pretty early work apparently. Man what a genius he was. Liszt might be one of the most influential and important musical figures of the romantic era, but, in my opinion, as a composer, he never came close to Chopin.
Liszt farly outranks Chopin in orchestral compositions; Chopin was, with all due respect, terrible at writing for orchestra. However, I can agree, his melodies are much more beutiful than Liszt's
@@guilhermemarello5698 you are quite right, of course. To begin with, Chopin hardly wrote anything for orchestra. I love his two piano concertos, but I know that experts agree that they are not very skillfully orchestrated, that the piano part is too dominant.
@@deej20007 I won't argue with you, I am sure you're right. I'll have another try with it soon. Btw, I am a great admirer of Spanish music in general (though no expert). My favourite composer is Maurice Ravel and I also love Manuel de Falla.
@@sfsphil I was, but don't worry about it. I was just implying that this Bolero is way better. I hate how repetitive Ravel's is. So annoying to play or listen to.
@@pattmahiney I'm a lover of both composers, but Ravel's Bolero is by far the more original and striking composition. There's a reason why the Ravel is one of the most famous pieces of orchestral music ( aside from its use by Torvil and Dean) and why this Chopin piece is hardly known at all, even by Chopin lovers- as many of the comments here attest. It's very interesting to hear it but it's clear why pianists never programme it.
@@paulybarr if everyone remembers your motif over the other guy's, then you basically win, right? I just hate the repetition but he did his job well. It'll be played for the rest of time.
Ravel came to hate his Bolero too. Something he saw as a fairly mundane orchestration exercise became his most famous piece. Often happens to artists (Beethoven was annoyed by the popularity of the Moonlight Sonata). But I think it's quite remarkable how well the Bolero works as a piece, despite its monotony and length. It's a beautiful melody and Ravel was a brilliant orchestrator, making the whole build-up very satisfying.
@@exequielchuaqui5968 A piece is not a masterpiece just because it's written by a renowned composer. This Bolero really does not compare to other works by Chopin with much more compositional qualities like his ballades, sonatas or scherzi. There's no wrong is saying this.
@@ldece627 Yeah but it's still a great and beautiful piece. That's the problem with renowned composers, that if a piece they wrote is not as good as the others some people then say it's bad, which is stupid because we can't expect the composers to create the same things all the time. In this case, it's a complex piece hard to understand but it doesn't mean it's bad. I really enjoyed this piece, and as I say again, we can't expect that the composers will maintain a level of writing.
